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[reeftopia]

Has anyone on marsh dosed their reef tank with hydrogen peroxide. Been reading where its used for algae control

 

[Cody]

I've heard that people are successful with targeting it at specific things, but I'm not terribly knowledgeable of how to do it.

 

[gmod]

I tried it when i had the bc29..it helped a little..dosing 1ml per 10g per day for 7 days. Running no carbon..personally it works much better as a spot treatment than dosing..also monteporas dont like it..

 

[YankeeJG]

I've put it in my Biocube 14 several times, but I did it with an eyedropper with the pumps off in small amounts to target rocks I didn't want to take out. I took out several of the smaller rocks and drenched them with straight 3% peroxide numerous times, for a few minutes, then rinse with tank water and put back in. It kills off pretty much every type of algae I've ever had, including bryopsis, hair algae, red bristle algae (can't remember the name of that one but it sucks.... ) It never bothered any of my corals either (zoas, pallys, acans, frogspawn, etc. No sps back then so I can't vouch for that.)

The problem is, it works like a band-aid. It'll kill the algae, sure... but it won't do a darn thing about the reason you're getting the algae in the first place. So most of the time, if you don't address the cause, the algae will come back, often right where it was the first time. I got pretty sick of dousing my rocks every month or so, but I never got a good enough routine down with my first tank to get rid of it for good. It's like anything you use to treat a disease or pest... it's better to do it out of the main tank if you can. There's a huge thread on the Nano-Reef forum about it if you want to read up on it.... it's only 57 pages long.

Peroxide saves my Tank! With pics to Prove It! - Disease & Pest Treatment - Nano-Reef.com Forums

Good luck!!!

 

[reeftopia]

dosing a little different from nano to a 700 gal reef with a water volume of 1700 gal, pulled a coral yesterday dipped it a few minutes, was 90% clear this morning tried another tonight I may need to increase dosage if not completely satisfied. algae in only 1 of 3 tanks off of same sump so dont think its a water issue

 

[Reefahholic]

I've pulled some rocks and blasted them with it. Bristle worms love it.

 

[OceansX]

Hydrogen peroxide would act like an oxidizing agent, weaker than bleach, and more like adding ozone. (Someone with better chemistry knowledge please chime in.)

The coral's mucus probably gives it some protection from the chemical action of the peroxide, whereas the algae doesn't have this protection, and is chemically destroyed. The coral's mucus layer is also destroyed, but the animal itself is spared. After treatmentment, you may want to wait some time before re-treating, depending on how quickly, you think the coral's slime layer regenerates.

 

[jqsquared]

I started dosing with it this week. After several months without an ID I recently discovered I had dinoflagellates! I thought was GHA, fail.

None the less took out all my rock and scrubbed it with a peroxide solution to kill it all off (very successful btw) although I still had a rock or two and some sandbed with some areas of this dino.

I started dosing although for the past 3 days have been doing .5ml per 10 gallon just to be safe? Currently on day 4. So far my trachyphyllia didnt inflate much yesterday and my RBTA actually looked like a bubble tip but I hit it with another dose this morning. Polyp extension on my SPS and all other LPS looks great though! In a way all other coral look awesome.

Will evaluate more when I get home. Occasionally that brain wont inflate for whatever reason and RBTA's are just a PITA anyways. Currently not worried about them. But would love to hear other peoples opinions or what they are doing.

 

[jqsquared]

Wanted to check in here: Been dosing 4ml per day on roughly 50-60gallons of total water volume. Tank is doing well, recently as I mentioned I had a bad dino problem which I was coming out of. I can say that this regimen is either keeping them at bay or having no effect at all? Not sure tank itself looks great! best its looked in several months. Several areas of dino are still present, although have not grown or spread.

 

[reeftopia]

Ive dipped 5 individual sps about 10% mix tank water to HP for 10 minutes in all cases the red fuzzy algae completely dissapeared within 3 days. May try dosing the whole tank as Ive seen no adverse effects on any ccorals just the algae.

 

[Cody]

I might have to get on this train soon. I'm starting a battle with what I think is dino. Are yall keeping everything else online while doing this? Still keeping carbon in the tank?

 

[Cody]

Ah I just read above about the carbon. No carbon, got it. For dosing the whole tank though, it's just a straight up .5ml per 10 gallons, daily? How long are yall doing it? Any water changing involved in the process? as far as pulling the rock or coral out and dipping it in a solution, just one part HP to every 9 parts tank water for 10 minutes?

 

[devastator007]

I have a particular flat rock with tons of deep holes in it that have algae I can't get to with a toothbrush. The rock has 2 acros and a birdsnest glued on. Do you guys think it would be a good idea to take the rock with the SPS glued on it out and carefuly put the hydrogen peroxide in the holes to kill the algea around the coral? I could continuously drip tank water on the SPS to keep then wet.

 

[jqsquared]

Cody-I guess there is no recommended dosage. The consensus that I found online was actually 1ml per 10 gallons. I initially started with half that just to be safe. You may be experiencing the same thing I had with the Dino. I took all my rock out and scrubbed with a peroxide mix. Rinsed in water change water then threw it back in. I did this about a month ago and havent had it come back, along with been almost 2 weeks that I have done the tank wide peroxide dosing. That may or may not be whats keeping it away? None the less I am happy with the results.

Oh and before I forget, I kept everything online. (carbon, gfo, skimmer, ATS) my theory is that while this algae/dino is dying i want to rid the system of whatever is breaking up.

 

[Cody]

Yeah I just finished a three day black out and it didn't do much. I'm looking towards H2O2 soon. Maybe this week. I'm thinking about doing it similar to you. Just pull the rock out, either scrub it in a water/H2O2 solution or use an eye dropper to target the rock and not the coral, then put it back in. We will see how that does.

 

[reeftopia]

Today was my 3rd day have dosed 70ml each day seen no effects so far but feel Im probably underdosing big time. Going to stick with that at least a week.

 

[Cody]

David, I'm sure it is underdosing. You have way more than 700 gallons plumbed into your system.

 

[reeftopia]

More like 1700 gal but am going to go slow. Going to increase dosage by 30ml to 100 after 1 week.

 

[nightster]

Yeah I just finished a three day black out and it didn't do much. I'm looking towards H2O2 soon. Maybe this week. I'm thinking about doing it similar to you. Just pull the rock out, either scrub it in a water/H2O2 solution or use an eye dropper to target the rock and not the coral, then put it back in. We will see how that does.

Raising this thread from the depths of time, did you have any success dosing H2O2? New lights have caused an algae bloom. Was going to try dosing H2O2 followed by a large water change a couple days later.

 

[eraser2001]

I used one time to eliminate cyano, no problem in my tanks, just my opinion increased if I remember good. Did it help me? Really I did not have good luck

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