hydrogen peroxide and GHA death

toytech · #1 12-31-2010, 07:07 PM

wouldent try it on sps but everything else is probably tough enough to take it ,my corals are all ok today and the gha is not so go and try it for yourself .Some guys are even dosing their tanks with the stuff to kill algea but im not ready to try that yet.

toytech · #2 12-31-2010, 07:08 PM

oh side note coraline goes kinda whit after you dip it so if your looking for some way to kill gha and not coraline this probably isint the way.

lockrookie · #3 07-11-2011, 05:01 AM

experimenting with this on my 50g tank...willpost resultsasi get them good or disasterous.

ottoman · #4 07-11-2011, 07:26 AM

What is hydrogen peroxide? Where can you buy the solution?

RuGlu6 · #5 07-11-2011, 09:04 AM

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Originally Posted by ottoman

What is hydrogen peroxide? Where can you buy the solution?

http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/i...y/CIMG3523.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_peroxide
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You can buy it in Superstore for $3.00 or so.

reefwars · #6 07-11-2011, 09:30 AM

this has been going around for a while now i dont know many who have tried it but ive heard of this a long time ago. id be worried about long term effects or what it does to sensitive corals,inverts and bacteria before i started dipping any liverock. not a big fan of chemical fixes..

phi delt reefer · #7 07-11-2011, 01:01 PM

it works - lots of people (inc. Melev) dose directly into their tanks to control all types of algae. It ups your REDOX. Just need to be carefule and make sure you do in in a high flow area.

lockrookie · #8 07-11-2011, 03:03 PM

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Originally Posted by reefwars

this has been going around for a while now i dont know many who have tried it but ive heard of this a long time ago. id be worried about long term effects or what it does to sensitive corals,inverts and bacteria before i started dipping any liverock. not a big fan of chemical fixes..

im not a fan of it either but im less of a fan of my GHA which has burdened me since ive started my tank last sept. its my 50g and i have mixed up 45g of fresh salt water just in case of emergency water changes.

so far the water column is definately much clearer which is one of the effectsi read about. i thought it was clear before but it is more so now. but in two days i havent noticed any die off of hair algea as of yet. ive only dosed half of what others have been dosing and working my way up slowly. time will tell.

daniella3d · #9 07-11-2011, 11:00 PM

chimical fix? long term effect???? this is H2O2 we are talking about...you know..water and oxygen...

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Originally Posted by reefwars

this has been going around for a while now i dont know many who have tried it but ive heard of this a long time ago. id be worried about long term effects or what it does to sensitive corals,inverts and bacteria before i started dipping any liverock. not a big fan of chemical fixes..