H2O2 overdose

[Chad_P]

Things seem to have bounced back. Anemones are fine and the SPS looks to be ok. A few frags that have some rough spots but otherwise I think the SPS is ok.

I ran carbon and UV last night and the Dino’s seemed less intense. Began dosing phosphate to try and balance with nitrates so the true test will be when I get home today and see what the sand bed looks like. But initial look seems to have knocked them back. Not sure if that’s directly due to H2O2 or that I began dosing phosphates the day before.

 

[brandon429]

One very helpful aspect of your thread is tracking nonevents to filter bacteria, pods, worms, sponges, snails, crabs fish

Been tracking peroxide overdoses for eight years now and 3% has never affected filter bacteria in any amount used, yours being the highest I’ve seen at 1:1 ratio or 10x overdose. There’s an OD on reefcentral using 35% which did kill the filter for a while.

If you polled any forum on the web about filter bacteria dying in your tank at half the stated amounts, everyone would have polled yes/certain. After all, says right on the bottle “antiseptic”


There are no species of fish we commonly keep that are listed as peroxide sensitive in our threads, collected tank examples span all the fish kept in the hobby. Can you post a pic of your tank

the list of sensitives does include however: anemones, coralline, lysmata, hermodice fireworms, decorative macros, Xenia

it’s a rather weak overall antiseptic at 3%, you proved a new refreshing point about filter bacteria for those who care about that type of thing. Peroxide would be devastating to teased out bac cells on a slide, but that’s not how nature rolls. They’re in insulated biofilm sleeping bags which work apparently well.

Your thread is now linked to our peroxide thread as a case study. Nice
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[Chad_P]

One very helpful aspect of your thread is tracking nonevents to filter bacteria, pods, worms, sponges, snails, crabs fish

Been tracking peroxide overdoses for eight years now and 3% has never affected filter bacteria in any amount used, yours being the highest I’ve seen at 1:1 ratio or 10x overdose. There’s an OD on reefcentral using 35% which did kill the filter for a while.

If you polled any forum on the web about filter bacteria dying in your tank at half the stated amounts, everyone would have polled yes/certain. After all, says right on the bottle “antiseptic”


There are no species of fish we commonly keep that are listed as peroxide sensitive in our threads, collected tank examples span all the fish kept in the hobby. Can you post a pic of your tank

the list of sensitives does include however: anemones, coralline, lysmata, hermodice fireworms, decorative macros, Xenia

it’s a rather weak overall antiseptic at 3%, you proved a new refreshing point about filter bacteria for those who care about that type of thing. Peroxide would be devastating to teased out bac cells on a slide, but that’s not how nature rolls. They’re in insulated biofilm sleeping bags which work apparently well.

Your thread is now linked to our peroxide thread as a case study. Nice
B

I’ll dig up a pic but you’re right, fish didn’t seem to be impacted one bit. Also most of the clean up crew from what I can tell were ok, including a brittle star, tile star, sand softer star and sand dollar.

Also, my Tahitian maxima and deresa clams didn’t seem to care at all.

 

[Chad_P]

Here’s pics of the sandbed. Confirmed Dino’s by microscope. Just couldn’t confirm which type of Dino. It’s restricted to sand bed so assuming the one that started with “a” (can’t recall how to spell).

 

[Chad_P]

Here is FTS