hydrogen peroxide

Hi all, I’ve got a bubble coral that got a little damaged when I put it in the tank. It’s doing well for the most part, but I’ve noticed at night when it recedes, there’s a little bit if hair algae growing on the exposed skeleton. I’ve read about using h2o2 for algae on corals, but I know...

Hi all, I've recently been dealing with what my local fish store ID'd as a bacterial bloom. It's taking over the highest rock in my 25g waterbox. It's noticeably worse on the one rock that wasn't live when I started the tank. They recommended trying a dose of hydrogen peroxide and then...

Hi, I got into SFW since January of this year. Currently I am in the middle of DT quarantine due to ich outbreak. I started the treatment towards the end of April, so it's been about 3 weeks now. Currently I have the following fishes (most are small, and a few are medium size) in a 55g QT tank...

Hey everyone I’m I’m new to reefing and had my tank cycled and ready to go for coral. I set up my lighting and got my first soft coral gsp. I did a hydrogen peroxide treatment on the coral for about 4 min which seemed to kill a lot of parasites. This consisted of dipping my coral in straight 3%...

To be clear, this is about longer term oxidizer dosing (with dose measurement and monitoring), not topical applications or dips for algae or pest treatment. After watching a fair amount of BRS and other reef content on YouTube discussing the benefits of dosing ozone to clarify water and reduce...

Hi Everyone! I wanted to share my recent success with using hydrogen peroxide to kill Aptasia and Manjos in my reef tank. I couldn't find a whole lot of details about how to do it so here is my success story. A warning to everyone concentrated hydrogen peroxide. This stuff is dangerous it can...

Hi I am struggling to get rid of my cyano. Following twillard’s thread I starting dosing 3% hydrogen peroxide on 10.12.23 at 1ml per 10g (16 ml for my 160 gal). This was making no impact so upped it to 30ml on the 20th. Today there is still little impact. Some matts are lifting up but soon get...

Fauna Marin has come up with a new expensive coral dip called "cili dip". If you look at this PDF, the concentrations suggested for different coral species are identical to those suggested by Justin Credabel for Hydrogen peroxide. You can find his research summarised here. Frankly, this looks...

Hello all, I am new to reef2reef. I set up a 20g tank a couple of months ago. It has a yellow tail damsel, clownfish and flame hawk fish. They are all about 1.5-2 inches long and get along pretty well. The damsel gets upset when the clownfish goes near his rocks but everyone generally gets...

Just got ich/velvet so planning 90 day fallow. I'm fine with QT fishes and inverts but think I can't be patient enough for qt for coral frag swaps. Hydrogen peroxide has been used as coral dips for algae so I am wondering anyone used it to bypass frag quarantine assuming the chemically violent...

My tank has ich, I'm currently practicing ich management as going fallow for 76 days failed (possibly because I'd added corals during that time). My question is, I've bred berghia to clear up my aiptasia... can I safely give some berghia babies away if I did some type of SW rinse on them first...

I have some GSP discs that recently have been hit with different types of algae. While I battle the underlying problem, I'd like to try to clean these discs so the GSP has some room to grow. First I will take a toothbrush to them. Then I was thinking about trying a dip. Hydrogen Peroxide seems...

I used it recently to help fight back against cyano, and I see it being used quite often to help with algae. How does it work? Why does it kill the bad stuff, but the tank seems to be perfectly fine? Why is the good bacteria spared? How is it affecting the inverts? Does it accumulate and need...

Hi! So I'm researching trying to do a copper QT for new fish moving forward (using copper power). I had a couple questions to get clarifications on, and then after that I'll probably make a post sharing my QT plan, just to run it by some pros on here and check for flaws. 1. Could you go 14...

Thread Highlights: May 2023 - The beginning of the Cyano War (#60) June 2023 - The Bubble-tip emerges after 3 days hidden. (#110) Fish and CuC Various Trochus, Astrea and Nassarius snails. Dwarf blue legged hermits. 2 x Tank Bred Clownfish Coral A few various Palys. Bubbletip anemones...

I need to clean a rock out of water since it's full of GHA and I estimate it will take about 30 minutes to scrape it all off, spray H2O2, let it sit, then rinse with SW. I also have a mushroom on this rock but since it's on the lower part I can keep it submerged. Also, is spraying H2O2 really...

So some brief backstory here, I set up my first saltwater tank about 6 weeks ago, got it cycled and added my first fish last week (firefish goby). I decided to forgo QT for the first fish fully aware of the potential consequences of this, figuring I'd get lucky with my first fish and I'd get my...

So i’ve seen plenty of different methods to use H.P. to kill GHA The one that works best for me in to apply 1ml of 3% H.P. onto the GHA on my rocks (since they’re too big and have too many corals to just be taken out) My question is: can i use the one found at drugstores? Or do i have to go...

Hi there, First time poster, long time observer and thread reader. Looking for some guidance to help my father with his 400 gallon Fish Only tank. He has been dealing with an Ich outbreak for a couple of months now and has until now been just using Ruby Reef Rally pro and Kick-Ich in tandem...

I can't find food grade anything where I live because food-grade isn't a thing here. I found a good source of hydrogen peroxide 3% that contains sodium pyrophosphate. I'd imagine the sodium pyrophosphate acts as a stabilizer, and should be present at about 25 – 250 mg/L. Is this amount of...

Hello fellow saltiness, I know barley straw is used as an algae inhibitor in freshwater (especially ponds) because it releases H202. 3% hydrogen peroxide dosing is also used in saltwater for the same purpose. Has anyone tried barley in a mesh bag in saltwater or are there other things released...

Over the last month or so I have seen spots red slimy stuff growing on my rocks and close to frags. This has been happening in high and low flow areas. I am guessing this could be a form of cyano which I brush and siphon out. Also, my sandbed and glass panels go brown with a stringy organism...

Hello, so I have been into the reefing hobby for about a year and a half now and about 4 months ago I purchased this 30 gallon tank and cycled it, and placed a few fish and corals in. I am at about the 3-4 month mark and all of the sudden this strongly algae began to grow very quickly and in a...

I'm finding myself using a lot of peroxide now, brushing stuff off with it, and dosing it nightly with the 1mL/10g that's commonly recommended, and it's completely turned my tank around! This feels like miracle stuff! What are the long term implications of using it? I had a horrible...

Wanted to share my experience with the effectiveness of H2O2 baths This whitetail tang had an advanced case of velvet, and after a few days in the QT was on deaths door :( I ended up treating him with a 30m Hydrogen Peroxide bath (following @Humblefish instructions) followed by a standard...