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santeeeyyy
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yea all I got a softies that I want to dip. mainly shrooms and zoa's
Thoughts on Professor Polyps bubble bath?
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bruno21447
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I love this stuff I had hair algae and bubble algae and it got rid of it all. I had one rock that had an anemone on it and then some with mushrooms and zoas and didn’t lose anything but the bad stuff. I did like he recommended and got the anemone and zoas to close up as much as possible. I also bought some frags and when I dipped them flat worms started dropping. Also kills bristle worms if tank is over ran with them. I usually don’t worry about them but I had a crap ton of them so was glad it killed some off the rocks.
Robmbush
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Im trying to reset some 20+yr owned rock. Primarily for bubble algea but also want to nuke red mushrooms that keep trying to take over my tank. Im also preparing for a 420g build thts in planning but currently running a red sea 1000S tank. Is there a time frame of soak that kills the shrooms but doesn't totally nuke the rock? I've got probably 400lbs of very large hand selected rock chunks so I bought a 5gal bucket of the stuff.
Its all Kaelini rock harvested sometime around 2000.
Its all Kaelini rock harvested sometime around 2000.
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Robmbush
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So the bubble bath nuked my SPS corals on my rock which isn't a huge deal as I was doing a reset for the most part anyway. Mushrooms are still there unfortunately (as expected though) and LPS seemed to do fine but looked stressed for a few days after the dip. It seems to have worked to kill the stubborn small bubble algae and some hair algae so it has a use but I would not proactively dip corals in this stuff!!
Robmbush
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It seems that most of this hobby goes about like that!!
How did you apply it? I have accidentally left corals in the dip for way too long because I got distracted. I actually left a rock with a few king kong mushrooms in a dip for over 24 hrs... It has taken a minute but a full recovery. but still alive.
CoralNerd
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Ulva and Bubble algae have been driving me nutty. I'm going to try dosing it directly to my sps dominant tank. During the process I will also dose n&p to keep nutrients from bottoming out.
Robmbush
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Concentration and time were correct. I did itnin a large bucket woth the entire rocks being submerged. The sps corals had been in decline so not overly healthy. This did them in. It did work pretty well in the bubble and hair algea and the lps did pretty well and has bounced completely back.
CoralNerd
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I'm on day 12 dose 11. The best way to go after bubble algae in the tank is to use a tool like two little fishies Julian's Thing to apply. It will kill the bubble algae overnight with a direct shot.
I'm guessing the porous rock may have retained a large quantity of the solution, allowing it to leach out of the rock around the SPS, resulting in long-term exposure when you put it all back into the tank.
The label doesn't claim to eliminate mushrooms. In fact, it claims to be "gentle on all types of ... anemones. It does claim to be "effective on" many of the bad things--no mention of risk to the desirable ones. For example, it works on pyramid snails--no mention of all the other snails. It works on asterina stars--what about sand sifters? The question remains whether this dip is as broadly effective and selective as the creator claims.
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Just verifying. The Thing is more like a baster than an injector. I'd think injecting internally would be more effective than a puff of peroxide on the exterior bubble algae. I keep syringes handy for things like kalk injections.
CoralNerd
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Yeah a syringe is fine. I thought if I could rewrite that I would have wrote syringe. The product doesn't need injected it just needs shot on top of the undesirable algae. The Thing is handy to get deep in the tank without putting your whole arm.
Note: If you have a spot of algae bubble bath is fine but if you have a lot of example bubble algae this isn't the way to go.
Note: If you have a spot of algae bubble bath is fine but if you have a lot of example bubble algae this isn't the way to go.
Nonya
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This stuff seems to be getting legendary status before anybody outside of Utah has even used it. Its primary ingredient is cleaner-strength peroxide. It's much cheaper to buy a $1 bottle of 3% peroxide and use it full-strength on (or in) bubble algae. Lowes offers 12% food grade peroxide (no additives of any kind) by the gallon for around $22. I think RH-F said Bubble Bath is 15%.
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