Peroxide vs red hair algae or not?

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Hello guys,

fighting since months vs red hair algae (probably cotton candy algae), defintely no cyanos/dinos.
I want to try a way to effective fight this algae, and i ve red in some threads that ppl did this using peroxide. On the other hand I v also read ppl claiming you should not use peroxid at all?

Whats now the truth, what are possible reasons NOT to use peroxid?
And if, should i add it directly to my display tank or just into a basket with RO DI water where i clean my live rocks and put them back into my tank afterwards?
 

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if you can remove the rocks out of the tank to inject peroxide, do it. i've dosed about 1ml of hydrogen peroxide per 10G of tank water just fine for bryopsis/GHA. although i would inject directly at the areas. taking out the tank, scrubbing, injecting then scrubbing again would be best.
 

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