hydrogen peroxide and GHA death

toytech · #1 12-31-2010, 07:08 PM

oh side note coraline goes kinda whit after you dip it so if your looking for some way to kill gha and not coraline this probably isint the way.

lockrookie · #2 07-11-2011, 05:01 AM

experimenting with this on my 50g tank...willpost resultsasi get them good or disasterous.

ottoman · #3 07-11-2011, 07:26 AM

What is hydrogen peroxide? Where can you buy the solution?

RuGlu6 · #4 07-11-2011, 09:04 AM

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Originally Posted by ottoman

What is hydrogen peroxide? Where can you buy the solution?

http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/i...y/CIMG3523.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_peroxide
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You can buy it in Superstore for $3.00 or so.

reefwars · #5 07-11-2011, 09:30 AM

this has been going around for a while now i dont know many who have tried it but ive heard of this a long time ago. id be worried about long term effects or what it does to sensitive corals,inverts and bacteria before i started dipping any liverock. not a big fan of chemical fixes..

phi delt reefer · #6 07-11-2011, 01:01 PM

it works - lots of people (inc. Melev) dose directly into their tanks to control all types of algae. It ups your REDOX. Just need to be carefule and make sure you do in in a high flow area.

lockrookie · #7 07-11-2011, 03:03 PM

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Originally Posted by reefwars

this has been going around for a while now i dont know many who have tried it but ive heard of this a long time ago. id be worried about long term effects or what it does to sensitive corals,inverts and bacteria before i started dipping any liverock. not a big fan of chemical fixes..

im not a fan of it either but im less of a fan of my GHA which has burdened me since ive started my tank last sept. its my 50g and i have mixed up 45g of fresh salt water just in case of emergency water changes.

so far the water column is definately much clearer which is one of the effectsi read about. i thought it was clear before but it is more so now. but in two days i havent noticed any die off of hair algea as of yet. ive only dosed half of what others have been dosing and working my way up slowly. time will tell.

daniella3d · #8 07-11-2011, 11:00 PM

chimical fix? long term effect???? this is H2O2 we are talking about...you know..water and oxygen...

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Originally Posted by reefwars

this has been going around for a while now i dont know many who have tried it but ive heard of this a long time ago. id be worried about long term effects or what it does to sensitive corals,inverts and bacteria before i started dipping any liverock. not a big fan of chemical fixes..

asylumdown · #9 07-11-2011, 11:58 PM

The diluted drug store solutions that people are applying to their tanks are probably not harmful at all to their tanks long term. The algae is being killed because of the relatively high local concentration of peroxide; very likely it's damaging the cell walls of the algae who don't have robust tissues designed to protect them from powerful oxidizers. Make no mistake, it could kill your corals too, but coral death likely requires a higher concentration or longer duration of exposure. It's highly reactive and it decomposes in to oxygen and water, so after a few minutes or the application of lots of flow all you'll be left with is slightly more oxygenated water and whatever stabilizers the manufacturer put in it to prevent it from breaking down on the store's shelf (usually an acid of some sort).

I bet that every coral has a slightly different limit on how much they can be exposed to. Since corals don't come with a 'tolerance to strong oxidizing agents' rating, I probably wouldn't dip a prized Acropora colony in the stuff, but it's been used to control algae and cyano on aquatic plants in the freshwater hobby for years and years, so I don't see the harm in local applications to problem algae spots with the pumps turned off for a few minutes.

reefwars · #10 07-12-2011, 01:19 AM

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Originally Posted by daniella3d

chimical fix? long term effect???? this is H2O2 we are talking about...you know..water and oxygen...

still pretty sure its a chemical compound but hey drink a bottle a see if its just water. and long term effects i mean constantly to the one piece over a long period of time.fact of the matter is its not necessary im not saying im against it im just "not a big fan"