Is H2O2 dosing the secret to clean rocks?

[brandon429]

Bmwm235i

That truly is the ideal people want by and large, a sort of internal balance vs external work dosing.

 

[Subsea]

I’ve been dosing H2O2 (hydrogen peroxide) for months and there are many threads here about it. I started dosing when I got dinos just to help with the battle. Dinos went away and I stayed away from algal blooms. I then got some cyano in some low flow spots. I added flow but also started to slowly dose more H2O2. The end result was clean beautiful purple rocks. So I dose 5 mL (6% solution) daily by hand to my 130g. Only downside is my zoas close up for 5 minutes almost immediately but have no long term downsides.

Here are the beautiful, clean purple rocks with healthy SPS.

Curious to hear others’ experiences. And no I don’t see this as a fix to algae problems but just part of a maintenance regimen.

How did you establish that dosing rate?

Did you have an O2 meter to assist with dosage rate?

 

[Krully]

Thanks for the input, then I guess I won't try H2O2 and I'm back to scrubbing and waiting for my nutrients levels to drop...!

 

[Ippyroy]

H2O2 stops working when it is subjected to light. I wonder if fuge lights would do this as well. I am sure if you dosed while the DT lights are on, it wouldn't work as well. I am wondering if my fuge light would kill it, stopping it from destroying my macros.

 

[DaddyFish]

H2O2 stops working when it is subjected to light. I wonder if fuge lights would do this as well. I am sure if you dosed while the DT lights are on, it wouldn't work as well. I am wondering if my fuge light would kill it, stopping it from destroying my macros.

Good question! (I have no idea but hope someone does.)

 

[brandon429]

so much room for new discoveries agreed. if it helps any in planning, people with orp meters routinely post a drop (paradoxical, the rise is expected, Randy thinks this is organics-modulated wanted to relay) and then a rebound within 4 hours. we think its neutralized within 4 hours of tankwide addition, that's its functional time. we add lysmatas back in 4 hours after big doses.

 

[Joshua Mengel]

H2o2 is amazing stuff in a reef tank it kicked dinos butt in my tank and only affected some snails and 2 skunk and 1 fire shrimp and I dosed way more than the recommended 1 ml per 10 gallons I ended up dosing 2ml per gallon for 5 days and destroyed dinos!

 

[Cory]

No id say corraline algae is the secret to clean corraline covered rocks

Im the h202 king here. Ive dosed more than anyone ive seen here. Ive dosed 10ml of 30% peroxide into my 125 gallon. It kills mostly everything, algae, corals and irritates fish at that amount. Finding the sweet spot is hard. It literally dissolves algae. For me its useful but comes with caution and risk.

 

[ZoWhat]

Nope....

Dosing tetraselmis phytoplankton every day outcompete every form of nuisance algae. Really hard for nuisance algae to get a foothold when phyto gobbles up all the NO3 before anything else

I've seen it for myself for the last 6mos

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[Uncle99]

@brandon429 You mention Lysmata shrimps, I have a skunk cleaner, is H2O2 a no no when you have one of those? I wouldn't want to kill it but I'd take the help with unwanted algae...

I’m just finishing a twice daily 10 day, 3%-H202 at a rate of 1ml per gallon, lights out treatment and I’ve had no problem whatsoever with either my Fire or my skunk shrimps.

The only thing that was unhappy was the Cyano.

Nice clean rock and sands.

You would have a problem if you dosed it near him.

 

[brandon429]

NIce nice.

and yes Cory for sure had the highest level sustained that was what many folks on reef central considered total wipeout levels but yours adapted quickly.

 

[revhtree Verified Admin]

Scott I added a poll! Will feature as tomorrows QOTD! Thanks.

 

[Reeferdeluxe]

No id say corraline algae is the secret to clean corraline covered rocks

Im the h202 king here. Ive dosed more than anyone ive seen here. Ive dosed 10ml of 30% peroxide into my 125 gallon. It kills mostly everything, algae, corals and irritates fish at that amount. Finding the sweet spot is hard. It literally dissolves algae. For me its useful but comes with caution and risk.

I had great luck with mine dosed 300 ml of 15% H2o2 with approximately 150 gallons of tank water. It did kill a ton of gha.

 

[Cory]

I had great luck with mine dosed 300 ml of 15% H2o2 with approximately 150 gallons of tank water. It did kill a ton of gha.

300 ml of 15% all in one time?

 

[Reeferdeluxe]

300 ml of 15% all in one time?

Yup! For 3 days straight day and night.

 

[Reeferdeluxe]

Yup! For 3 days straight day and night.

Sorry 5 days straight.

 

[Cory]

Yup! For 3 days straight day and night.

Ok you win lol. Any corals? When i dosed 10ml of 30% the skin of fish would bubble from it. If i dosed 125ml of 30% which would be about the same as 15% at 300ml to 150 gallons, i think it would kill my fish too. But i didn't have any sand its bare bottom so its possible having less organics to oxidize increases its effect. 10ml killed dinos very well. But they always came back. Uv sterilizer got rid of them.

 

[Skynyrd Fish]

I ran 20 mil of 3% total water volume of 125 gal. It cleared my water but not much else. I did this for a few weeks. What is the gha killing dose and dosing schedule?

 

[brandon429]

Thought this would be a unique post.

these are the biggest longest peroxide work threads I know of, their utility is getting to see the evolution of peroxide work unfold like a paper flip cartoon it’s about 95% happy reefers, any forum sampled, valuable tool.
Shows doses, before and afters, and slaying of reef invasions. You won’t find recycles here in patterns, nor kills of microfauna in pattern.


anyone considering peroxide has a matched tank somewhere in these bazillion logs.

thanks to the widely-accepting link sharing options at reef2reef i present this salad of peroxide works for review:
fifty pages:

Dinoflagellates my experience......h2o2 reefing tool!!!!!

aaaaaaarrrrrrr just wanted to share my recent battle and how i won!!!!!!!!! "i wish i took pics but i didn't..:(" so about 3 weeks ago my tank broke out pretty bad i mean bad!!!!!! my coast to coast overflow would get plugged and almost overflow my tank..... so i did my research and found...

www.reef2reef.com

65 pages:

Peroxide saves my Tank! With pics to Prove It!

I had been hearing about the use of Hydrogen Peroxide as a way to deal with pest algae, so I figured that I would give it a try. I had a nasty case of bryopsis and had tried everything you can imagine to beat it. I tried new bulbs, nudibranchs, chaeto, a seahare (RIP), Tech-M, new RO filter. I ca...

www.nano-reef.com

62pages

pico reef pest algae problem challenge - Reef Central Online Community

pico reef pest algae problem challenge Nano Reefs

reefcentral.com

30 pages all direct rock applications not much tank dosing:

Reef2Reef Pest algae challenge thread hydrogen peroxide

What you are really in for: Hand cleaning, hard work siphon and rasp-removing of accumulations and invasions outside the tank and doing massive water changes is 90% of this thread, peroxide is 10%. We almost never dose peroxide into the tank water, this is a you-work-physically-hard as catch-up...

www.reef2reef.com

 

[brandon429]

Also, quit voting no bc thats a bunch of yes above. That’s 400 reefs or so there + 400 or so in private message per site.