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    PSA: Do not use hydrogen peroxide to fight algae if you have shrimp

    Too long; didn't read: I lost both a peppermint shrimp and a fire shrimp after using hydrogen peroxide spot treatment to get rid of a bad dinoflagellate outbreak in separate incidents. Both died during the night after treatment. Others have reported similar incidents. Don't use hydrogen peroxide...
  2. B

    Hydrogen peroxide dosing vs Ozone...compare and contrast

    To be clear, this is about longer term oxidizer dosing (with dose measurement and monitoring), not topical applications or dips for algae or pest treatment. After watching a fair amount of BRS and other reef content on YouTube discussing the benefits of dosing ozone to clarify water and reduce...
  3. Xxflounderxx

    Dino and hair algae

    I've been struggling with dino an hair algae for about a year. Sometimes it looks like it's getting better then it just blows up. I've used both vibrant and dosing peroxide on my old 40 gallon... the problem I'm having is on my 150 gallon acrylic aquarium. Would peroxide be a good option? I've...
  4. Hydrogen Peroxide Bench-testing

    Hydrogen Peroxide Bench-testing

    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...
  5. kalmanb0y

    Can Stressed Zoas Release Palytoxins?

    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...
  6. Jake_the_reefer

    I think i beat dino twice!

    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...
  7. Raindog3030

    Fighting Dinoflagellates with H2O2

    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...
  8. mcarroll

    Algae Cure!! Spot Treating Algae With Peroxide

    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...
  9. Troylee

    Dinoflagellates my experience......h2o2 reefing tool!!!!!

    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...
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