Clarification: Dosing hydrogen peroxide safe?

hoboapocalypse · Apr 16, 2016

Hello. I just wanted clarification if dosing hydrogen peroxide into a mixed reef with sps, lps, shrooms, acantho, etc. was safe as algae control. My understanding of it is that it is but I want to be 100% sure. Can someone please clarify for me? All help is appreciated. Thank you

Anirban · Apr 16, 2016

Oh yes totally. I did it

.....ask @twilliard

AllSignsPointToFish · Apr 16, 2016

I, too, am interested in the latest developments on this front. I have recently had some cyanobacteria crop up (most likely due to carbon dosing), and I'm interested in what the proper regimen is for this treatment.

Bdog4u2 · Apr 17, 2016

I've added it to my tank every day for the past year. It's got a short half life and is out of the water in 24 hrs. I have bta some sps and LPS even my yuma isn't phased by it. When used correctly it's a powerful tool

cmcoker · Apr 17, 2016

I think it is not safe for cleaner shrimp.. But otherwise ok
@brandon429

brandon429 · Apr 17, 2016

Agreed there

Those guys are perox weaklings

Whether it's safe for bacteria is a point of contention in threads I say good to go

sc8kv123 · Apr 17, 2016

I've used H2O2 for a couple bacterial infections (coral and fish) and i've used it for a wide variety of algae using different methods (dip, target, broadcast). Now I dose daily with awesome results. Very excited to read the write up from [HASHTAG]#twilliard[/HASHTAG]

Bdog4u2 · Apr 17, 2016

cmcoker said:
I think it is not safe for cleaner shrimp.. But otherwise ok
@brandon429

I have 2 cleaners and they're fine

Randy Holmes-Farley · Apr 17, 2016

hoboapocalypse said:
Hello. I just wanted clarification if dosing hydrogen peroxide into a mixed reef with sps, lps, shrooms, acantho, etc. was safe as algae control. My understanding of it is that it is but I want to be 100% sure. Can someone please clarify for me? All help is appreciated. Thank you

Safe is a function of dose, just any most chemicals.

AllSignsPointToFish · Apr 17, 2016

So, what is the regimen for beginning peroxide treatment?

Randy Holmes-Farley · Apr 17, 2016

AllSignsPointToFIsh said:
So, what is the regimen for beginning peroxide treatment?

If you are looking to treat cyano, I'd read through this thread:

https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/back-at-it-peroxide-vrs-cyanobacteria.241002/

Kungpaoshizi · Apr 17, 2016

Peroxide is safe, it's naturally occurring in the environment and in many organisms. The brown bottle stuff from Walmart should not be used though because of stabilizers which are toxic iirc. So you should get food grade peroxide and dilute it.

AllSignsPointToFish · Apr 17, 2016

Kungpaoshizi said:
Peroxide is safe, it's naturally occurring in the environment and in many organisms. The brown bottle stuff from Walmart should not be used though because of stabilizers which are toxic iirc. So you should get food grade peroxide and dilute it.

I'm not exactly sure that is correct. The peroxide in not stable when exposed to direct sunlight, which is why it's sold in a brown bottle. As far as I know, there are no stabilizers in the standard 3% pharmaceutical peroxide.