Back at it! Peroxide vrs cyanobacteria

[reefer1]

It's 105 gallon display tank with 20 gallon sump

 

[cowboy]

@reefer1 just out of curiosity what do you feed, and how often how much is free floating after the fish finish.

 

[reefer1]

I carefully feed 2x a day. Very little if anything ever reaches the sand bed.
New Life Spectrum Thera+A slow sinking pellets
Hikari Bio-Pure frozen foods (spirulina brine shrimp or mega marine algae) soaked in garlic extreme and selcon

 

[Sjonnie]

What do you guys think about using peroxide in combination with the zeovit method?

 

[BoneXriffic]

Im playing test dummie as well now. Putting second dose in an hour

 

[brandon429]

Edited

 

[twilliard]

What do you guys think about using peroxide in combination with the zeovit method?

I have no personal experience with that. Is it a carbon source?

 

[brandon429]

its highly stripped po4 no sandbed and low no3 params plus certain dosers, amino acids elements etc to maintain coloration. Low organic system by strict design

don't have much data for it in ULNS setups so safe dose levels still apply

I think peroxide overdoses would be more obvious in a low nutrient setting due to the missing organic stores mentioned above

 

[john.m.cole3]

Siphoned sand while performing 10% water change. Took GFO offline last night, dosed peroxide at midnight and noon today. No more bubbles on the rocks and the reddish brown stuff is receding. Will continue to dose 1 ml/10 gal for 2 more weeks minimum. Here's a photo after the water change today

 

[Sjonnie]

its highly stripped po4 no sandbed and low no3 params plus certain dosers, amino acids elements etc to maintain coloration. Low organic system by strict design

don't have much data for it in ULNS setups so safe dose levels still apply

I think peroxide overdoses would be more obvious in a low nutrient setting due to the missing organic stores mentioned above

Thats spot on. But the base of zeovit is creating bacterie in a reactor bij feeding them in the reactor. My concern is that a kill the bacterie in the reactor with peroxide.

Greets John

Ow im from the netherlands, so of im writing somting wrong englisch sorry for that.

 

[shollis2814]

OK, so I have noticed some of my zoas and some of my button polyps getting a reddish tint of cyano on the stalks. Is this external or internal? Should I dip?

 

[twilliard]

OK, so I have noticed some of my zoas and some of my button polyps getting a reddish tint of cyano on the stalks. Is this external or internal? Should I dip?

That is external but not sure if it is cyanobacteria. . Interesting

 

[shollis2814]

That is external but not sure if it is cyanobacteria. . Interesting

My camera isn't that great, but I will try to document.

 

[brandon429]

Sjonnie nice distinction I do see that now after checking those reactors out they should make a pico reef version all micro for 2 gal setups

 

[Baiggann]

Quick question..... lights on? Lights off ? Reduced lighting schedule? Have light dino problem Want to start 1:10 peroxide treatment

 

[shollis2814]

I may be pulling the trigger on a substrate change this weekend. If I do, I will probably give a peroxide dip to my smaller frags.

 

[twilliard]

Ya it looks like the cyanobacteria is encroaching up the polyps
What is your nutrient levels at?
By the picture you may have a high carbon load and cyanobacteria is efficient at up taking carbons.

 

[twilliard]

Quick question..... lights on? Lights off ? Reduced lighting schedule? Have light dino problem Want to start 1:10 peroxide treatment

I have not studied the life of dinoflagellates and the effectiveness of h2o2 but plan to make that one of my next writeups.

 

[shollis2814]

Ya it looks like the cyanobacteria is encroaching up the polyps
What is your nutrient levels at?
By the picture you may have a high carbon load and cyanobacteria is efficient at up taking carbons.

I checked a few days ago, nitrates are <40. Looking more and more like that substrate change is in order to get this nipped in the bud quickly.

Can cyano take 'hold' nitrates as well. Could my dosing peroxide be releasing nitrates as they die, only to be taken up by the remergence?

 

[twilliard]

No they don't directly uptake and hold no3
Certain species can actually produce no3 but those species are not found to my knowledge in home aquaria.