Hydrogen Peroxide for Bubble Algae

[Maverick00]

Originally Posted by dpg

I've dipped a piece of LR in h2o2 solution 3% fully submerged until it bubbled ~ a couple minutes and placed back in sump and the bubble broke down and disappeared. Had a couple zoas on that rock but they were and are still fine. No bubbles on that piece now. I've even injected with areas of cyano on my sand bed and the patch would bubble and disappear overnight. It will kill your Copepods/amphipods - they start fizzing and bubbling.

good to hear! maybe ill give it a shot on a small rock first!


I do have an emerald crab specifically for the algae but maybe its just not enough manpower. Perhaps ill try a combination of buying another crab and HP treatments. Thanks

[daniella3d]

I have 2 emerald crabs but they must be really big in order to be strong enough to eat those algae. I had a big one before and he was cleaning them a bit but my 2 small one about 1" can't do a thing to them.

Best thing I have seen was my foxface...He loved that stuff and ate all of them but when I sold the foxface they made a come back.

Originally Posted by Maverick00

good to hear! maybe ill give it a shot on a small rock first!


I do have an emerald crab specifically for the algae but maybe its just not enough manpower. Perhaps ill try a combination of buying another crab and HP treatments. Thanks

[BigAl07]

I've had great luck with H2O2 dips. I dip all new incoming frags in a 50/50 H2O2 mixture. I've not tried it on some of my expensive SPS yet (just haven't gotten any new ones in a long time) but have done softies and Zoas.

For bubble algae (Valonia ) I will remove the rock in question, manually remove the bubble algae, then do a dip in 50/50 H2O2 to hopefully destroy any spores that might have been released. Also my method of manual removal is coating each bubble with Super Glue GEL and then remove the whole mass as one. If it's a really large specimen you can usually carefully remove it by hand but do so OUT of the tank just in case.

Here is what a LARGE one looks like (This was behind a rock in my 90g tank)