I'm new to saltwater tanks and adding hydrogen peroxide to it. What are all the pros and cons
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andiesreef
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why are you adding hydrogen peroxide to the tank? is there a reason? usually i see it used as an algae spot treatment on coral frags. i would not dose anything that doesn't have a specific purpose especially if you are new to the hobby.
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In an established 20-gallon tank I had some hard-to-get-rid-of algae and overall brown wall-sludge (Lol). Someone here said dose Hydrogen Peroxide when the lights were off, 10 days in a row, and add bottled bacteria when the lights were on, for the same 10 days. It helped immensely: that’s all I can say. 
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It should help with algae and keeping rocks a little more clean. I started doing it a few days back to back but my trachy didn’t seem to like it so I stopped.
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Frostynipps
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I was treating for red bacteria and hair algae (its working great so far) and I trust my LFS guy. He had told me to do it but he didn't tell me what else its good for or what could happen if I did it wrong. its not effected anything negatively yet and its been 5 days
Post a full tank shot of your reef
I’ll show you a 10x better way to use peroxide than how it was advised, we don’t dump any into the water
agreed this approach above isn’t harmful theres 12 years of online data for people dumping it into the water, it’s just not as good as the way I’ll show you once we see the symptom pics of the tank, we don’t need to know params just a full tank pic
I’ll show you a 10x better way to use peroxide than how it was advised, we don’t dump any into the water
agreed this approach above isn’t harmful theres 12 years of online data for people dumping it into the water, it’s just not as good as the way I’ll show you once we see the symptom pics of the tank, we don’t need to know params just a full tank pic
davidcalgary29
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It can distress or kill inverts. My tuxedo urchin dropped all of its camouflage within a minute of application of 1mL in my Evo to spot-treat valonia and took about a day to recover. Hydrogen peroxide can certainly help, but that help can come with a cost to everything else in the tank.
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Frostynipps
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I will post as soon as assurance sends me a new phone its been a month so far (prepaid assurance stoped but they kept charging me so I still have it) I wish my laptop had a back camera. The only ugly problem I'm having is red cryno bacteria if I turn up the blue light over 15% and or any white. How do I kill that (besides no whites under 15% and 4ml nightly for 10 days)
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I used it once and it caused a condylactis to go nuclear, spewing its toxins into the water. I lost about half of my coral. So be cautious if you have any nems.
Algae/Cyano Issue Not Improving, Help Please?
Hi all, I have a Red Sea Reefer 250 that has been up and running for 8 months now. My issue is a strange black algae\cyano growth that has plagued me for the last two months+. I have been treating as follows: cleaning gravel twice weekly 20% water changes twice a week Addition of beneficial...
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you can use peroxide …
you can also nuke your tank with it, I know I got aa thread
the tank is new and probably will go through a few more phases of weird algae … this won’t be the last and it won’t last
let it ride, it could just take a while
you can also nuke your tank with it, I know I got aa thread
the tank is new and probably will go through a few more phases of weird algae … this won’t be the last and it won’t last
let it ride, it could just take a while
Doctor
By leaving out you did a gross overdose you change the context to hint at danger. in that context, an overdose, Kalk is a killer.
or distilled water.
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By leaving out you did a gross overdose you change the context to hint at danger. in that context, an overdose, Kalk is a killer.
or distilled water.
Dinoflagellates my experience......h2o2 reefing tool!!!!!
aaaaaaarrrrrrr just wanted to share my recent battle and how i won!!!!!!!!! "i wish i took pics but i didn't..:(" so about 3 weeks ago my tank broke out pretty bad i mean bad!!!!!! my coast to coast overflow would get plugged and almost overflow my tank..... so i did my research and found...
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true, agreed…I won’t argue..bDoctor
By leaving out you did a gross overdose you change the context to hint at danger. in that context, an overdose, Kalk is a killer.
or distilled water.
when following the known dosage rules this applies
Dinoflagellates my experience......h2o2 reefing tool!!!!!
aaaaaaarrrrrrr just wanted to share my recent battle and how i won!!!!!!!!! "i wish i took pics but i didn't..:(" so about 3 weeks ago my tank broke out pretty bad i mean bad!!!!!! my coast to coast overflow would get plugged and almost overflow my tank..... so i did my research and found...
surely in the future you'll lead with 'if you dump excessive amounts' it becomes a killer?
how many tank losses come from following the known safe dose
the stupid element does bear mentioning….
then again, I did start by saying “you can use peroxide”
just use common sense and read up …I still use it btw
probably should contribute….
I dunno, I think too big a deal is made over algae… I got 3 tanks, a 210, 150 and 60 all reef., all have totally different algae issues: the tank I nuked won’t grow any and that’s actually a issue!
Anyway, I wonder if as a rule/ baseline we should even entertain theories and or solutions for tanks under 2 years old.. just thinking out loud
I dunno, I think too big a deal is made over algae… I got 3 tanks, a 210, 150 and 60 all reef., all have totally different algae issues: the tank I nuked won’t grow any and that’s actually a issue!
Anyway, I wonder if as a rule/ baseline we should even entertain theories and or solutions for tanks under 2 years old.. just thinking out loud
I dislike adding peroxide into a tank's water. prefer total disassembly / reassembly with the target missing from the rebuild
this isn't practical in large tanks though so reefers continue on dosing things to the water to find best efficiency
its my opinion some algae become habituated to it when repeatedly dosed but that's just a post pattern guess
this isn't practical in large tanks though so reefers continue on dosing things to the water to find best efficiency
its my opinion some algae become habituated to it when repeatedly dosed but that's just a post pattern guess
EeyoreIsMySpiritAnimal
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Regardless of what you use to treat the algae, if you don't identify and address the root cause, it will keep coming back.
Regarding cyano, increased flow might help.
Regarding cyano, increased flow might help.
Fishface515
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I have used hydrogen peroxide on occasion to treat my display tanks for combating problem algae and to eliminate marine velvet. If dosed properly it can be a valuable tool. I do stress the term properly regarding dosing. It can wipe out chaeto but I typically run caulerpa and other macros in my fuge so I did not have a problem with that. Just be sure you have an accurate measure of your systems total volume and are using proper measuring tools to dose.
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