Explain the hydrogen peroxide treatment

[mandi29221]

I read on fb ppl treat issues with hydrogen peroxide. Can you tell me what it's for? What it treats and how much for a 75 gal?

 

[reeferfoxx]

@Randy Holmes-Farley

Personally, I would avoid it. Just my opinion.

 

[John3]

I used it to treat my whole tank for dinos and it worked. I have also used it as a coral dip for unhealthy frags or to kill hitchhiker algae.

Do a search on the mix ratios or tank dosing. Do the reading as some corals do not like it and others don’t have any issue with it.

 

[Cory]

Its main use lately has been to kill algae. While effective, it can kill anything becaise its oxidizing effect is non selective, like for example an algacide.

If the goal is to kill algae, selective treatments like the newest one -fluconzole, works very well against bryopsis and hair algae and targets ergestrol which is cholesterol iirc. Thus these algae die because they have this.

For me, the best control ive found against algae is diadema sea urchins. They wont kill anything but algae.

 

[Cory]

Tje treatment is 3% hydrogen peroxide. Use .10 ml per 10 gallons daily in the whole tank. Or was it 1ml? Look that one up. Brandon on here has lots of info with jmhis reef bowl.

A safer alternative is to spray rocks out of the tank with it then rinse.

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

I read on fb ppl treat issues with hydrogen peroxide. Can you tell me what it's for? What it treats and how much for a 75 gal?

Do you have a problem at the moment?

 

[Bdrake]

I've successfully used peroxide to kill off dinos twice but I'm no expert. Negative symptoms are shown in anemones, some palys/zoas, and euphyllia but zero casualties. I have never used it for any other reason. I prefer not dosing anything other than my regular 2 part and AA, but H2O2 seems less stressful to the coral than dinoflagellates.

 

[reeferfoxx]

I've successfully used peroxide to kill off dinos twice but I'm no expert. Negative symptoms are shown in anemones, some palys/zoas, and euphyllia but zero casualties. I have never used it for any other reason. I prefer not dosing anything other than my regular 2 part and AA, but H2O2 seems less stressful to the coral than dinoflagellates.

Which strain of dinos?

 

[Bdrake]

I dosed at 0.5ml per 10gallons twice daily. Most recommend 1ml to 10 gallons daily, but I was more comfortable breaking that down in to two separate doses.

 

[Bdrake]

Which strain of dinos?

Couldn't tell you. Never did give much thought to individual strains, just a confirmation of dinos.

 

[reeferfoxx]

Couldn't tell you. Never did give much thought to individual strains, just a confirmation of dinos.

Dependant of the OPs reason this may not be a dino thread. However, there are over 2000 strains of dinos and we've seen h2o2 be anecdotal more often than none without any confirmation of strain. Meaning it shouldnt be generalized as a form of cure. It might even have more negative effects on the tanks natural ability(ie copepod-inverts and some bacteria) to fight off future pests as opposed to the current. Just throwing that out there.