H2O2 Dosing?

[Aquattro]

Chatting with someone last night, he manages a client tank where he doses 20ml of 29% H2O2 daily. My first thought was "that's bad". But, he's been doing it a long time and everything is sparkly clean and nothing bad is happening. Anyone know anything about this??

[IanWR]

I haven't done it myself, but read about it when I was battling dinos last year. From what I could figure out it does a similar thing to ozone.

[Aquattro]

Ya, the ORP values are quite high in the tank, ~350mV or something like that

[riceboy]

i think dez also doses h2o2 as well maybe he will shine in on the topic.

[hillegom]

Originally Posted by IanWR

I haven't done it myself, but read about it when I was battling dinos last year. From what I could figure out it does a similar thing to ozone.

From what I remember, if ozone is bubbled through water, H202 is formed temporarily

[Aquattro]

Conceptually, I can see the benefit, although this would scare the crap out of me, and I worry less than most about adding stuff to the box.

[MKLKT]

Reading up on it I'm definitely going to try an out of tank spray/dip for some of my LR. Don't think I'd want to risk trying to dose though.

A few months ago my GSP spawned and it stunned/killed most of the snails and a few inverts in my tank which led to a bloom of algae that I haven't been able to get rid of, it was so nice before

[George]

I wouldn't dare to try H2O2 in DT. It can kill good things along with bad things.
To keep clean water, a UV can probably do better job than most.
There are also probably a dozen harmless ways to control algae anyway.

[Aquattro]

Originally Posted by George

I wouldn't dare to try H2O2 in DT. It can kill good things along with bad things.

That was my train of thought too, but he's adding 20ml/day long term and it's a damn nice reef!

[freezetyle]

Huge thread on rc about dosing it to get rid of algae. A lot of stores will dose their ranks with in power outraged to keep o2 levels up.