Hydrogen peroxide treatment killed frog spawn
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I’ve never done a H2O2 Treatment but I know people suggest under 1ml per 10 gallons of tank water so he may have put enough in to do harm.
That is a bandaid fix though. A six week old tank is going to have algae blooms and many other blooms. These are ones you just need to let run their cycles. In the future, I would recommend that you work on lowering nitrate and phosphate rather than dosing chemicals. It just seems to work far better and you don’t have to worry about accidentally over/underdosing and causing deaths. Hope everything still alive pulls through. In the mean time I’d remove everything that’s dead or dying and do a water change.
That is a bandaid fix though. A six week old tank is going to have algae blooms and many other blooms. These are ones you just need to let run their cycles. In the future, I would recommend that you work on lowering nitrate and phosphate rather than dosing chemicals. It just seems to work far better and you don’t have to worry about accidentally over/underdosing and causing deaths. Hope everything still alive pulls through. In the mean time I’d remove everything that’s dead or dying and do a water change.
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At only six weeks old you shouldn't really be dosing anything for algae. Algae cycles in New tanks are normal and should be left to run it's course. If you have bad algae issues then yiu should really get to the root cause of the excess nutrients in your aquarium. With that being said he did dose 1ml to much, you want to dose 1ml per 10 gallons. But i dont know that 1 ml over would cause this issue. #reefsquadI had an aquarium technician come test my tank today to help clear up some algae. He added 3mL of hydrogen peroxide to my 20 gal tank and about 5 hour later my frogspawn dissolved. It is literally disappearing as you look at it. My green plate also turned white and is now slimy. I’m doing a water change now. Are my fish ok? Should I relocate them? The tank is 6 weeks old.
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Sorry to say but thats way too early to be introducing corals in a tank. 6 weeks your still seeing a cycle. Even if your not then at best you should start with hardy corals like zoas to see how they react to the new tank. From there slowly add new coral while monitoring all levels and making adjustments.
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That's not cool. At all.
Though 6 weeks is too early to attempt that type of approach, I wouldn't recommend it ever. There are better ways to fix issues. Typically with H2O2 dosings, you would start with half the dose in the morning and the other half in the evening. Then work up to 2ml in the morning and then 2ml in the evening. But as an oxidizer it can cause harm to coral and inverts especially in new or unstable conditions.
If any tissue is left on any of the coral, a 25% water change might help. Otherwise I would consult the technician and tell him what he/she did.
2ml of peroxide in 20h should not do that I belive. What else was dosed with it?
An alk or ph buffer perhaps?
6mo is more than fine for coral and has nothing to do with the nitrogen cycle.
My gut says somthing is wrong with your source water however.
There’s also not enough snails , unless they are dissolving too. )likely)
An alk or ph buffer perhaps?
6mo is more than fine for coral and has nothing to do with the nitrogen cycle.
My gut says somthing is wrong with your source water however.
There’s also not enough snails , unless they are dissolving too. )likely)
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3ml was dosed in the 20. Do you think that extra 1ml would do any harm? And I believe the tank is only 6 weeks old.
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6 weeks.
Ewww.
No i don’t. Assuming it’s standard concentration.
However , I have seen tanks nuked with peroxide and some alkalinity /ph buffers.
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Peroxide will affect everything in the tank , that’s why most people start at .5ml per 10g for the first week and gradually increase to 2 ml per 10g. That dose is definitely pretty strong as a first dose in any tank. Also a 20g tank with rock and sand probably only has 15g of water in it.
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In my opinion and experience it can or won't perform the way you want it to. Personally, I think it kills or reduces beneficial microbes resulting in a weaker or less mature environment. I've dosed it many times for different types of issues and never got a decent fix out of it. After fighting more invasive species of dinos, cyano and hair algae, my only goal now is to rebuild what h2o2 took away in the past.
I dosed it directly 2 times. The first time I was fighting Dino’s and went by the recommended dose and there were no issues with anything other than it worked killing the dinos. The second time I was trying to squirt it at some gha patches and I used twice the recommended dose in 1 application. Within a couple hours I could see some negative affects. My candy cane shriveled up bad. I instantly went into water change mode and everything survived. It took about 2 weeks for the candy cane to fully recover.
To me it seems like a fine line with overdosing it.
To me it seems like a fine line with overdosing it.
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I’ve spot treated byropsi but I never went over the recommended dose for my tank per day. Like anything else, the animals will get used to the peroxide eventually but gotta do it slowly
