SPS and peroxide?

[Lonny]

I got this California tort and love it but I got a bit of bubble algae on it and really don't want to start that fight. I dipped zoas in tank water and dripped peroxide in till the hair algae started to bubble and it worked like a champ! Can I do this with sps and will peroxide kill bubble algae?
Thanks

 

[Lonny]

Whoops forgot the pic.

 

[cb684]

I would probably remove the frag from the plug.

 

[Lonny]

You think the peroxide will hurt the coral maybe?

 

[mcarroll]

If you don't mind popping the coral off that's one way, but that bubble algae looks eminently removable by hand to me.

Straight peroxide will kill the coral, but you could thoretically dip only the plug.

Honestly, I like bubble algae cuz it looks cool, it's easy to remove by hand, and it's never run away on me. (In my home system....I know it does in other peoples' tanks!)

I had one bubble grow to about the size of a quarter and lived so long that coraline algae grew over it....it looked like a globe with green oceans and purple continents!! The bubble eventually died, I suppose from getting shaded out by the coraline, and then there was just the "continental skeleton" left for a a few weeks. Try that with hair algae!!!

 

[cb684]

If you decide to use peroxide 3% make sure it does not enter in contact with the coral as mcarroll said. I would probably try to inject in the bubble. But I am not sure how it works for bubble algae. If I remember right from what I read it was not very effective. Here, this is the person can help you: @brandon429

Removing it may work too. But I am not sure if I would do that. But then, I do not have a lot of experience fighting it...

 

[Lonny]

Thanks. I don't have experience with the algae or sps. I do agree it looks cool mcaroll and one with coralline would pretty bazaar looking. If you have a pic post it! I would love to see it. I'm just very new to this. The zoas didn't mind the dip, I couldn't say how much peroxide I used cuz I just went drop by drop till I saw bubbles. I'll probably just take it off by hand. Thanks all!

 

[brandon429]

I agree wouldn't dip whole frag. I'd use small pick and remove as stated

And anticipate it being on rocks keep preventative eye out, and for those I still wouldn't dip I'd rasp/remove then use peroxide on the cleaned areas as follow up cleaning for leftovers

 

[Lonny]

Thanks Brandon! Read thru some of your thread last night. Awesome info! Steep learning curve.

 

[brandon429]

That is a bunch of brave souls willing to collect pics all in one place my own tank can tolerate 35% added (most of our work shown is 3%) after being pushed for testing purposes. the point of all the excess work is finding boundaries to work within against targets. Even if you spilled straight 3% on the sps it wouldn't kill it if rinsed off.

The coral does fine rejecting it's own order of substrate colonizers it just needed a boost there as a pick remove, an animal would have zapped it in nature like a little grape

One proof regarding valonia exists

It's sole cause in reefing is non quarantine and no other cause. That opens nice boundaries, says if you eradicate the DNA it can't come back, being allowed modes independent of nutrients opens options, we choose peroxide someone else may use an ATS these are all just options to peruse

The reef central peroxide thread has some multi thousand dollar sps reefs doing full dosing, and poster Russ here documented the finest sps tank overdose and comeback I've seen. He's doing it on purpose to battle dinos

Acting on the first few spots was right move

 

[furam28]

Why not get a small emerald crab. They make a great addition to a cuc.

 

[Lonny]

Thanks again Brandon, it is very interesting and exciting learning of all the different ways to combat the things that irritate our reefs! Honestly imo it makes our hobby so much more interesting and fulfilling! If it gets out of hand I will get an emerald crab, as of right now though I think he would starve because my hermits go after each other if I don't lay some food down for them lol.