Peroxide.

[AquaticFinatic]

Have you guys had any luck using peroxide to kill dyno's etc. I'm trying to get rid of my darn dyno's. I have read lots but there is lots of confussion over the dosage amount and what to do. Any stories that may help me. Thanks in advance.

[reefwars]

Have you guys had any luck using peroxide to kill dyno's etc. I'm trying to get rid of my darn dyno's. I have read lots but there is lots of confussion over the dosage amount and what to do. Any stories that may help me. Thanks in advance.


are you sure its dino's ?? they can be quite tricky to id, if it is then best of luck its a painnnnnnn :( i havent heard of any success with peroxide in regards to dino's but i know elevating your ph and a blackout works too:)

[AquaticFinatic]

It's a brown algae that grows back over night and sometimes has bubbles in it. It looks to me as dyno's but I could be wrong. It brushes of the rocks real easy but covers everything even my gsp when it withdraws for the night.

[toytech]

could just be diatoms , hopefully.Ceriths will eat them , sponge growth will stop them , and finding a source of silicates will tell you where they came from.

[ScubaSteve]

Ok, let's go through causes first. What kind of livestock are you keeping? How much are you feeding? What are your params at? And, are you doing ULNS of some sort. Let's see if we can't kill it at the cause first as it will make the battle easier.

Some cyano, in ULNS especially, can look like dinos, so becareful to not misdiagnose the issue. I had this recently myself. All it took was a small change in my husbandry techniques and they were gone in a little over a week.

There are mixed schools of though on peroxide. Some say it's safe, some not. It works for some but can lead to disaster for others. I use peroxide in my research to kill off organisms in water, so I've seen what it's capable of. Peroxide can create hydroxyl and superoxide radicals which can attack tissue (which is how they kill dinos) but can also be absorbed in to the tissue of corals. When a coral gets too much light the zooxanthellae start to produce these same radicals, so the coral bleaches (or evacuates all the zoox) to protect itself. Adding chemicals into the tank that can produce those radicals could potentially cause the corals to trigger a bleaching event. I'm not saying that this will happen, just saying that if you go this route you need to be careful.

I'd say go for escalation rather than full out nuclear war at the beginning. Let's nail down the cause if we can, and use some of the age-old methods to kill them off. Pull out the magic bullet if all else fails.