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I've used ozone in tanks and found the levels of ozone required to kil brown turf algae or GHA are strong enough to cause skin to fall off SPS and deodorize your room.
Ozone and Peroxide work on similiar mechanisms. If what I found for ozone generators applies to peroxide the levels required to kill GHA are not practical.
Peroxide does have a strong effect on algae encrusted rock frags and such when directly applied and allowed to sit in the air for about 5 minutes. Briefly pouring it on has little effect. You need to let it soak in the open air for about 5 minutes which will not bother coral. May take an additional treatment or two, but even the densest GHA can't handle a direct peroxide application and allowed to sit for a few minutes in the air.
I've been playing with peroxide dosing to see if it has the same maintenance abilities as low level ozone and clearing the water and so far they seem to work very similiar in that respect.
Ozone and Peroxide work on similiar mechanisms. If what I found for ozone generators applies to peroxide the levels required to kill GHA are not practical.
Peroxide does have a strong effect on algae encrusted rock frags and such when directly applied and allowed to sit in the air for about 5 minutes. Briefly pouring it on has little effect. You need to let it soak in the open air for about 5 minutes which will not bother coral. May take an additional treatment or two, but even the densest GHA can't handle a direct peroxide application and allowed to sit for a few minutes in the air.
I've been playing with peroxide dosing to see if it has the same maintenance abilities as low level ozone and clearing the water and so far they seem to work very similiar in that respect.