Hydrogen Peroxide eliminating Algae

[nautilus]

My excellent experience with Hydrogen peroxide dosing.
I have nearly eliminated all Briopsis on my tank in just 3 days and will continue to do so until all have been nuked to death. I did it to my main (SPS) frag tank as well as (LPS-Chalices, Z's and P's) frag tank. I did 1ml per 10 gal, nuked directly to my tank. I also did 50/50 "drip" (almost similar to dipping, which I heard will also do the job) method on each heavily infested frags. All done with 3% H2O2, which most likely you'll get from local drugstore. Cheap, effective and no ill effects on my livestocks.

 

[KathyC]

Where did you hear about this and do you know of any other write-ups on using this to kill off bropsis?

What does it actually do to the bryopsis - turn it lighter in color and then yu have to pull it out?

What types of corals do you keep that weren't affected?

Pics?

 

[nautilus]

"Where did you hear about this and do you know of any other write-ups on using this to kill off bropsis?"

I read it from other forum. I'm not so sure if I'm allowed to divulge the site or source of that thread. LMK

"What does it actually do to the bryopsis - turn it lighter in color and then yu have to pull it out?"

I did try to pull it out from one of my frag earlier today (3rd day), kinda little impatient, but when I take a look at my main frag tank, a cluster of them just seems to start to disappear, like 75% of it. So, it will just liquefy most likely if you just continue using it untill all is gone.

"What types of corals do you keep that weren't affected?"

Acros, milliporas, Montiporas, Z's, P's, Mushrooms...not sure with Chalices,. One of my Chalice kinda bleaching, It's the low end one, my high end Chalices enjoying the increased O2 in the water as by product, could have been to heavy / over feeding lately?

"Pics?"
I do have. Before and after. just don't know how to attach it here. Always informing me that it is too large.

 

[SaltyFlip]

what KathyC said! I'm real interested but doubt there are no effects on other corals or even livestock.

Edit: attach the pics using the *

disregard the "*" when typing it in.

 

[fishman1069]

Use photobucket to adjust the size of the pic and then use the html code to attach it here. Im very interested myself!!

 

[KathyC]

lol, ok the guys have you covered on how to post the pics (imo uploading to Photobucket while resizing is the best idea. Pics look best here in the 680x 430 ish size )

And yes, you can post a link to another reefing site that provides good info

 

[INNEED]

intersting

 

[nautilus]

Ok guys, I will try photobucket and I hope I could post it tommorow.

 

[SaltyFlip]

oOoOo if this is legit, I can see myself buying bulks of H2O2 :splitspin :lol:

 

[nautilus]

"And yes, you can post a link to another reefing site that provides good info "

Great, I will PM the fellow reefer and ask for his/her permission.

One link is on Youtube YouTube - Justin Credabel Hydrogen Peroxide!!!

 

[nautilus]

Thank you guys for info on how to post pics "the professional way", kinda newbie in posting :splitspin

 

[pmoneyt]

hmmmmmmmm interesting

 

[NL146]

Justin Credabel - isn't he the ecoray led guy from Will's post?

 

[morphiii]

I just can't think of any reasons why H2O2 will target bryopsis and nothing else.

Strange.

 

[Aquadicted]

interesting thread. subscribed

 

[russellbravo]

i actually used hydrogen peroxide to kill off bryopsis before

although i took out the rocks and dipped it for a couple of minutes
and rinsed off with ro water.

the bryopsis turned into a goo like substance

 

[Jzhou]

I've heard of this method before but I didn't do it directly in my tank. What I did was a 10 to 1 tank water to peroxide bath for 10 minutes. H2O2 is actually a nice tool to use in fresh water tanks in the event of blackouts because the extra oxygen is released once it comes into contact with water. But the issue using H2O2 is that you have to be careful not to use too much since it might burn the gills of the fish. The only complaints that I have ever heard about using this method for bryopsis is that it sometimes kills snails. I'm not sure how it works though, but that would be something that is nice to find out.

 

[marki24]

Interesting thread just waiting to see what others say anyone good with chemistry maybe might haave a explination

Sent from my SPH-D700 using Reefs

 

[smoq]

Hmm that's interesting, I'm using h2o2 in my planted tank with success so that's not strange to me somebody thought about using it in saltwater... Tagging around.

 

[nautilus]

"I just can't think of any reasons why H2O2 will target bryopsis and nothing else."

It's not just Briopsis but all single celled animals like dinoflagellates. I think our corals and livestocks has also this protective slime that protects itself from oxidizing effect of H2O2. You could see bubbles when you dip your specimen in H2O2 because it breaks down into Agua and Oxinada, i.e, Water and Oxygen! So in theory, it will increase available O2 in your tank. The very reason why some people use this after power outages to replace depleted oxygen. The other by product is Hydrogen, which my sister in law who is a Medical Doctor theoized that it could decrease pH due to increased Hydrogen ions in the water. My pH meter graph shows stability or regular readings, except for my ORP which decreases abruptly during bombing (223) but goes back to average reading (276), the highest is (376) which accurs couple of minutes (not sure of the time stamp) after carpet bombing.

I just uploaded my pictures to Photobucket and hopefully I could find time to upload it today.

I got go signal from Troylee of Reef2Reef to share his knowledge.

http://www.reef2reef.com/forums/gen...gellates-my-experience-h2o2-reefing-tool.html