hydrogen peroxide and GHA death

toytech · #1 12-31-2010, 02:56 AM

So i all know how much we all hate GHA its a real pain , especialy when it gets on your corals.Ive been doing some reading on dipping things like zoas ,rics ,and duncans in a solution of 3% hydrogen peoxide , so i mixed some up last night at a 5:1 ratio of tank water to HP and dipped some pallys that had GHA inbetween them that just wouldent go away .I let the fiz for about 5 min and low and behold today the pallys are open and the GHA is DEAD ha! Tried it again tonight on some zoas and a duncan and already the GHA is wilting and bleachingand the corals seem ok . Oh and ya i know control phosphates no algea yada, yada,yada but i thought it was a neat trick and that i should share
(disclaimer if you try this and your corals die or something no letter bombs please and if your gonna come and punch me please do it between 3 and 5 pm thanks)

Rogue951 · #2 12-31-2010, 07:30 AM

no offence but can someone else verify this? =)
cause I REALLY have thick green hair algae issues. the only thing that will remotely touch it are urchins. but they strip the thing down to the rock, uncluding the coraline.

ALang · #3 12-31-2010, 03:50 PM

Same here. I'd like to know too.
What about HA on hard corals?

Borderjumper · #4 12-31-2010, 03:55 PM

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Originally Posted by Rogue951

no offence but can someone else verify this? =)
cause I REALLY have thick green hair algae issues. the only thing that will remotely touch it are urchins. but they strip the thing down to the rock, uncluding the coraline.

Why don't you take out a small piece of rock and give it a try? that's the only way you will know for sure.

toytech · #5 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 · #6 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 · #7 07-11-2011, 05:01 AM

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

ottoman · #8 07-11-2011, 07:26 AM

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

RuGlu6 · #9 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 · #10 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..