Hydrogen peroxide usage report
Jay Hemdal
April 3, 2021
Premise:
I use 7% hydrogen peroxide for my home water treatment system. Therefore, since I always have this material in the house, I wanted to explore other possible uses for it, including:
Disease control
Water sterilization
Bleaching...
I'm a first time reefer, and yesterday I gave my first two zoa frags a 30 sec 3% hydrogen peroxide dip, which nuked the algae on the plugs, but they didn't seem to enjoy it very much, and are now, a day later, only about 2/3 opened back up. Also, last night, my clown fish mysteriously...
So if anyone has seen my previous posts, I have been talking alot about my tanks having ostreopsis dino and what I can do to fix it. I followed the advice of a bunch of fellow reefers and i think i have successfully beaten the dino in both of my tanks!
10g:
The dino in this tank was horrendous...
We have had an outbreak of Dinoflagellates...which we had originally thought was just diatom (fairly new reef, 1.5 months old). TL;DR don't over feed your new reef!!! (I know better too, that's the worst part :()
First misdiagnosis lead us to Vibrant to attempt to control the alleged diatom...
For the record, there is no "cure" for algae as it's not a disease. That's the only reason the word "cure" is in the title. :)
Now for HOW to spot-treat algae! (More about "why" after the how...)
Fill a small syringe with 1-2 mL of regular hydrogen peroxide
Shut off all flow and wait for the...
aaaaaaarrrrrrr just wanted to share my recent battle and how i won!!!!!!!!!
"i wish i took pics but i didn't..:("
so about 3 weeks ago my tank broke out pretty bad i mean bad!!!!!! my coast to coast overflow would get plugged and almost overflow my tank..... so i did my research and found...