I have recently read that sponges and bristle worms are very sensitive to H2O2 dosing. This would be a problem for me because I have a sponge population and have bristle worms amongst the rocks in my tank. If they all die at one time this would cause an ammonia spike that could cause much damage to the tank inhabitants. Does anyone have any experience with this happening? I was planning on dosing 1 ml/10 gal to get rid of cyano that nothing else seems to effect.
Turn off all filters and water movement.
Run some airline tubing down handle of net, into net. Then get siphon going, pinch with clothing pin/rubber band. Run line into 5 Gallon bucket below. Now gently lift rock, un-pinch airline and slowly net under the rock pulling it out slowly trying to siphon any bit falling off rock. Place rock in bucket. Now go back siphoning any remaining red slime, not brushing or stirring up tank.
The tank, fill back up slowly doing water change... But when filling you can put tall cup and fill cup slowly til over flows into tank slowly filling back up..
Change your carbon and clean your Pre-Filters. Let that just run while treating your Liverock, but not with anything your worried about the treatment.
Now sand, liverock and old water, double the dosage for 5 Gallon treatment. Leave Powerhead in.
Everyday same dosage.
Next day or so, scrub rock with course 99¢ new heavy duty brush... Dose again,scrub, shake up the sand and pour off. Fill with new saltwater.
Dose few more times..Weeks good, if disaster from beginning continue to dose lil longer....
Now when dosing said and done, do another complete change of buckets water, shaking up gravel again.
Fill up with new saltwater run with carbon, piece of polyfilter and Powerhead.
If polyfilter changes intense colors, discard used polyfilter. Complete bucket change, new saltwater..Carbon piece of polyfilter and Powerhead...
Clear up? Polyfilter?
Should be fine!
Replace in tank, have No Red! Yay
