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Aquattro 04-10-2015 02:40 PM

H2O2 Dosing?
 
Chatting with someone last night, he manages a client tank where he doses 20ml of 29% H2O2 daily. My first thought was "that's bad". But, he's been doing it a long time and everything is sparkly clean and nothing bad is happening. Anyone know anything about this??

IanWR 04-10-2015 03:04 PM

I haven't done it myself, but read about it when I was battling dinos last year. From what I could figure out it does a similar thing to ozone.

Aquattro 04-10-2015 03:13 PM

Ya, the ORP values are quite high in the tank, ~350mV or something like that

riceboy 04-10-2015 03:46 PM

i think dez also doses h2o2 as well maybe he will shine in on the topic.

hillegom 04-10-2015 04:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by IanWR (Post 944825)
I haven't done it myself, but read about it when I was battling dinos last year. From what I could figure out it does a similar thing to ozone.

From what I remember, if ozone is bubbled through water, H202 is formed temporarily

Aquattro 04-10-2015 04:39 PM

Conceptually, I can see the benefit, although this would scare the crap out of me, and I worry less than most about adding stuff to the box.

MKLKT 04-10-2015 04:45 PM

Reading up on it I'm definitely going to try an out of tank spray/dip for some of my LR. Don't think I'd want to risk trying to dose though.

A few months ago my GSP spawned and it stunned/killed most of the snails and a few inverts in my tank which led to a bloom of algae that I haven't been able to get rid of, it was so nice before :(

George 04-10-2015 05:01 PM

I wouldn't dare to try H2O2 in DT. It can kill good things along with bad things.
To keep clean water, a UV can probably do better job than most.
There are also probably a dozen harmless ways to control algae anyway.

Aquattro 04-10-2015 05:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by George (Post 944845)
I wouldn't dare to try H2O2 in DT. It can kill good things along with bad things.

That was my train of thought too, but he's adding 20ml/day long term and it's a damn nice reef!

freezetyle 04-11-2015 12:49 AM

Huge thread on rc about dosing it to get rid of algae. A lot of stores will dose their ranks with in power outraged to keep o2 levels up.


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