Can I dip discosoma in hydrogen peroxide?

[Just John]

I have seen the h2o2 dipping guidelines in a few places, but can't find anything about discosoma specifically. I need to get some algae off of the plug before transferring it to another tank. Can I do it? If I can, how strong and how long?

 

[blaxsun]

Just manually scrape the algae off, no?

 

[Just John]

Just manually scrape the algae off, no?

I thought about that, but the tank it is in has some algae in it that I don't recognize and it grows incredibly fast, so I am paranoid about getting any at all in the other tank. It's like a plague, even with low nutrients.

 

[blaxsun]

I thought about that, but the tank it is in has some algae in it that I don't recognize and it grows incredibly fast, so I am paranoid about getting any at all in the other tank. It's like a plague, even with low nutrients.

UV, herbivores...

 

[gbroadbridge]

I have seen the h2o2 dipping guidelines in a few places, but can't find anything about discosoma specifically. I need to get some algae off of the plug before transferring it to another tank. Can I do it? If I can, how strong and how long?

I've never tried, but why not just cut off the plug?

 

[SFREEF3R]

This is the dosing I usually follow and if it's not the list I just go with the "Low" recipe

Peroxide dipping guidelines (for corals)

A while back Justin Credabel published this chart detailing the concentration of hydrogen peroxide appropriate for dipping various genera of corals. I've used these guidelines myself a few times to remove algae from coral frags and it's been quite effective. Justin Credabel's hydrogen...

humble.fish

That being said - I stumbled across this thread that advises against peroxide bath for mushrooms:

Mushrooms and peroxide

I'll be moving my mushroom rock into a new tank soon but didn't want to introduce any algae that's in the QT tank. Is it safe to put mushrooms in a peroxide bath? I've done it with lots of other corals...just wasn't sure about mushrooms.

www.reef2reef.com

even if you plan to use peroxide I second the comments above to remove as much of the plug as you can and scrape as much algae as you can manually as a first step.

Even after dipping I have seen algae grow back from the place it originally was.

 

[Just John]

Thanks for the help everyone!

 

[Just John]

This is the dosing I usually follow and if it's not the list I just go with the "Low" recipe

Peroxide dipping guidelines (for corals)

A while back Justin Credabel published this chart detailing the concentration of hydrogen peroxide appropriate for dipping various genera of corals. I've used these guidelines myself a few times to remove algae from coral frags and it's been quite effective. Justin Credabel's hydrogen...

humble.fish

That being said - I stumbled across this thread that advises against peroxide bath for mushrooms:

Mushrooms and peroxide

I'll be moving my mushroom rock into a new tank soon but didn't want to introduce any algae that's in the QT tank. Is it safe to put mushrooms in a peroxide bath? I've done it with lots of other corals...just wasn't sure about mushrooms.

www.reef2reef.com

even if you plan to use peroxide I second the comments above to remove as much of the plug as you can and scrape as much algae as you can manually as a first step.

Even after dipping I have seen algae grow back from the place it originally was.

Thanks for the links!