Dose Hydrogen Peroxide direct to your display tank
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Hydrogen peroxide is packaged in a bottle to prevent light from degrading peroxide into water. In that process, peroxide effected nothing.
when peroxide comes into contact with organics, oxidation chemistry takes place.
As I see it, peroxide that degrades in light is best used with lights out to enhance oxidation chemistry of peroxide on algae.
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1ml per 10 gallons, twice a day. When lights are off. I do mine at 8am and 12pm.
How long have you dosed at that concentration?
Do you have pods in your system?
@MichaelReefer
That dosage rate is double what I used. After 2 days a decrease in amphipod activity was noted. After 5 days all amphipods & copepods were gone.
Do you have detrivores or shrimp in your system?
the thing with pods is not typical. we have literally rolls and rolls of in tank dosing feedback with all pods ok
there are enough reports however of losses that I don't think we can claim blanket safety anymore, but it also seems safe to say if anyone partakes in peroxide use from our threads they'll have dead algae, not dead pods.
for some reason applications outside the scope of our threads log the losses, we do not have pod issues in the algae / perx threads I like to run.
our list of sensitives, animals not likely to endure 1:10 3% dosing/2 x a day or 1x:
-#1 lysmata shrimp and cousins, weak totally.
2 fireworms of any species
3 decorative macro for obvious reasons
4 xenia shrivels up usually
5 anemones deflate/angry but have never seen a loss
6 coralline may bleach out but it'll come back on the same spot, pigmentation picks back up quickly.
no fish, pods or even stony corals are listed on our sensitives.
there are enough reports however of losses that I don't think we can claim blanket safety anymore, but it also seems safe to say if anyone partakes in peroxide use from our threads they'll have dead algae, not dead pods.
for some reason applications outside the scope of our threads log the losses, we do not have pod issues in the algae / perx threads I like to run.
our list of sensitives, animals not likely to endure 1:10 3% dosing/2 x a day or 1x:
-#1 lysmata shrimp and cousins, weak totally.
2 fireworms of any species
3 decorative macro for obvious reasons
4 xenia shrivels up usually
5 anemones deflate/angry but have never seen a loss
6 coralline may bleach out but it'll come back on the same spot, pigmentation picks back up quickly.
no fish, pods or even stony corals are listed on our sensitives.
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If anyone cares, I stopped dosing 3 days ago and I now have a small amount of diatoms on the sand, if it persists or gets worse, I will re-enable my peroxide dosing program.
Algae and Phyto has been dosing low Levels of H2O2 into the sea for 1.6 billion years or so. There’s usually one outcome, more algae. I’m not surprised it’s bad for pods as peroxide can cause algal structures to become toxic / unpalatable. Lots of algae can tolerate low level doses as they have mechanisms to remove oxidants Produced by photosynthesis. Low light loving photosynthetic organisms do less well it appears, and decline as there oxidant defenses are less well equipped.
how often were u dosing? are you slowing flow during dosing? do u run a skimmer? if u do ru turning it off during dosing?
Are u you every run into an issue long term?
thanks for any input.
Pretty much the cusp of information I was after. We have pure industrial grade H202 at work and use it to clean equipment and corals. I was just wondering if I can just use it at like a 50% water/Hydrogen Peroxide mixture and use the meniscus/ surface adhesion inside of a syringe to target very early stages of algae, bryopsis before it can take off. But this pretty much answers my query not to mention I should already know considering.
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