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bryan oestreich
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and what kind or where to get the hydrogen peroxide?? like the stuff you get at like walmart or what?
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Brew12
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The beautiful thing about H202 is that it creates a chain reaction that will continue to kill the algae well after it is out of the dip. If you could treat everything at once, you would kill it all in one treatment. Probably neither smart nor practical in an established tank. The trick is to treat every piece once as you can, then if you see it coming back, target those spots.
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Yup... that is exactly what you need.
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what do i do with a few snails that have it on their shells? leave them alone? would you do the same to the power heads?
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I would just clean your powerheads in vinegar, all the algae should also come off. Not sure if you do that regularly or not but it is a good practice to get into.
As for the snails.... I'll leave that one to Twillard!
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bryan oestreich
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does cleaning vinegar have a better end result. why not just scrub it off and rinse it off and put back in tank? what does the vinegar essentially do?
twilliard
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I would leave the snails be. If you treat their shell they will just continue to pick up algae as they move about the rocks.
It is easy to treat the shells if you choose to do so.
Invert the snail and use a syringe or pipette to soak the shell. Same process wait the four minutes them put him back in. But they are better left alone.
It is easy to treat the shells if you choose to do so.
Invert the snail and use a syringe or pipette to soak the shell. Same process wait the four minutes them put him back in. But they are better left alone.
Brew12
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Vinegar dissolves the mineral deposits that tend to build up on powerheads. Not only makes them look better but will extend their life.
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so the excess hyrdrogen peroxide in the rocks wont hurt the tank when putting the rocks back in the tank. same with the power heads in vinegar the excess on the power heads wont hurt the tank correct?
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bryan oestreich
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way off topic but i been really wanted a dwarf lionfish. my tank is pretty open concept so i know he would do good in it. my question is. does water flow effect these guys since there not the greatest swimmers? with the info given what would i lose putting a lionfish in there? fish inverts corals? what would be killed?
twilliard
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I have a saying for these fish. If it fits its lunch
I kept my lion in a medium flow tank.
@Lionfish Lair may be able to give more insight (hi renee!)
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that's where i get a little confused to determine whether is a low med or high flow? what is consider low med or high. do you go by the GPH on each powerhead for the tank size. my tank is taller and skinner does that facter in then if it was a shorter wider tank? my pajama cardinal can sit in a few spots and can just float there? im not worried about the fish due to if he kills my purple dottyback ill be happy cause that fish terrorizes all my other fish but i think most of the fish will hide or can hide well enough in the rocks to be avoided cause that's usually where there hanging out anyways cause the only 2 fish that swim in the open really are the leopard wrasse and my clownfish. so he wont harm the corals?
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I don't even rinse either off when using them. Some people dose vinegar into their tanks. The little carryover you get won't hurt things at all.
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bryan oestreich
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what does dosing tank with vinegar do?
twilliard
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so would this actually help with phosphates or no?
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FYI the reason i do 25% water changes to try an remove the excess phosphates and nitrates but it doesn't seem to work so i don't know what is causing the phosphates to appear
Brew12
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Do you make your own RODI or use tap water?
