Peroxide to kill algae?

[_sludgefactory]

I read on here that someone was using peroxide to kill dinos. Would it work on algae at all? If so should a dose it dip?

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[jonbar1]

I recently pulled a couple Caulerpa covered rocks out of my tank and squirted peroxide all over the algae trying to avoid getting any on the corals attached to the rocks. I let the rocks sit about 5 minutes out of the tank on a towel while the peroxide did it's thing. The next day all the misc algaes like hair and bubble were clear and dead and over the next couple days the Caulerpa followed suit. Not sure it killed the Caulerpa down to the root so to say, since it comes back from the tiniest piece, but so far so good.

 

[_sludgefactory]

So mine is covered in hair algae and i don't think I'd get it all with squirting. Maybe a 50 or 25 percent bath? Maybe I'll just break something off one of my sps colonies and see what happens.

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[hyperlitexr50]

I have dipped ,dosed, and spot treated the dipping works the best. The only thing I have not seen results from is spot treating in the tank.

 

[poomba]

I had a cyano problem in my tank along with a bacteria issue with the zoas. I declared war on it, and went lights out for 5 days, while dosing 1 ml of h2o2 per 10 gallons of the tank once a day for 10 days. It solved my problem.

 

[Selter904]

I had a bad dino breakout that I contended with. I also debated using peroxide, but ended up cutting my lights down to only 1hour of run time (to feed) for 5 days, and it did the trick.

 

[_sludgefactory]

I have dipped ,dosed, and spot treated the dipping works the best. The only thing I have not seen results from is spot treating in the tank.

What strength solution did you use? Did it effect the coral at all?

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[tangs are awsome]

Is it 1ml per 10 gallons per day or 1 ml per 10 gallons and thats it for a week. I am anxious to try this on my tank. I keep fighting less light, no food, water changes, and still it keeps coming back. I can't figure it out. The only thing left is my RODI unit but all the filters are brand new and fresh DI resin. I will try the h202 and lets see. It can only help at this point. Will it hurt the anemonies?

 

[_sludgefactory]

I dipped 2 rocks today. One with an efflo and some zoas, the other with a monti cap and a milli. All corals survived fine after about a minute in 50/50 mix solution. The efflo changed color but no rtn. All the other corals that were in the dip look normal. Bunch of micro brittle stars died pretty much instantly. The algae is all turning white and dying. I may dose the tank but it was really just these 2 rock that were bad.

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[Pappy]

Run gfo in reactor and do wc's

 

[_sludgefactory]

I'm doing big water changes also. I just moved recently so it's still kinda of cycling/breaking back in. I had made 2 magnet rocks and those were what was covered in algae. The problem was the algae was killing the corals that were on them. Sri this was more of a bandaid until i get my nutrients back in check.

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[poomba]

So h2o2 does fairly well on bubble algae?

Also does h2o2 kill the bacteria in the live rock?

 

[miyags]

I believe it will kill the surface bacteria on live rock. I have a dragon soul fav, that came in with bubble algae on it. I removed the algae first, then with a little paint brush, I painted full strength peroxide on the exposed skeleton, then dipped the whole coral in a peroxide dip. Three months now and algae free.









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[tangs are awsome]

I was hesitant to add h202 to my tank, after turning back my lights, not feeding my tank for a month, not adding any thing to my tank for a month, the hair algae kept on growing. I think it is the light spectrum from my cheap china made led fixtures. They are only one watt. I can not afford more expensive lighting and bought them from a buddy for $250 for both fixtures, They retail for $600 each but to my knowledge they are only good for showing coral not growing coral. I am now saving up for the good expensive 3 watt led lights. in the mean time I am going to start dosing 1 ml per 10 gallons of 3% H202. for a few days and see if there is any change in my tank. I have done every thing from snails, urchins, sea hairs, lawn mower bleny, and more to rid my self of this f#*$ing hair algae and have found no relief. If the h202 does not do it and new lights don't get it , I will give up. I have been fighting this crap for 6 months and am fed up.