H2O2 Dosing?

[Reef Pilot]

Have heard Dietmar (Hillegom) and others talking about peroxide for some time, so decided to give it a try. Keep getting algae on my frag plug bases on the rack, where the tangs can't get at it very well.

So got some 3% at the drug store and mixed it 4:1 in a small container and dipped a frag just up to the base (not the whole frag) for 10 minutes. Just over a day later, the algae all turned white and the frag is none the worse for wear.

Will do a few more the next few days. If this works, sure beats trying to clean algae off the plugs every few weeks (or at least that's when I should).

Am not ready to try H202 in the whole tank, as am concerned about maybe killing too much other good algae (the kind that live inside corals).

[canadianbudz604]

Because I've had such good success with peroxide killing aptaisia/red turf algae/ and these bad ass bugs I'm going to start dosing my 36g. Gonna research the amounts I should be using, but I'm going to start with a drop or two. I'll keep my results posted.

[Aquattro]

The tank I referenced doing this is using 25ml daily of 29% H2O2. It's about 120g system.

[ClubReef]

I have some recent experience with peroxide (3%) to help fight Dino's at 10% of my net water volume for about 2.5 weeks and from what I can tell it had no affect on my tank (positive or negative). I even upped my dosage to 25-25% on a few occasion..and nadda. Imo peroxide is low risk.. Would I use it again, nah

[GoFish]

Originally Posted by ClubReef

I have some recent experience with peroxide (3%) to help fight Dino's at 10% of my net water volume for about 2.5 weeks and from what I can tell it had no affect on my tank (positive or negative). I even upped my dosage to 25-25% on a few occasion..and nadda. Imo peroxide is low risk.. Would I use it again, nah

Just to clarify over the course of 2.5 weeks you added 1 gallon of peroxide to 10 gallons of tank water, into your tank directly? Or were you dipping stuff in that percent?

[ClubReef]

Originally Posted by Vancity

Just to clarify over the course of 2.5 weeks you added 1 gallon of peroxide to 10 gallons of tank water, into your tank directly? Or were you dipping stuff in that percent?

I apologize, my math is wrong and please don't use 1 gallon per 10 gallon of water . I was dosing about 1ml per 10 gallons directly into the tank and then went as far as 5 ml per gallon and usually twice a day for 2.5 weeks. When I went 5ml/gallon I was desperate because the dinoflagellates started to attack my corals. I didn't see any affect at all with the dosing. I eventually beat the crap out out of the dino with an aggressive increase in pH using kalkwasser. So from my experience the H202 didn't do anything for me but other reefers might have different results.

[MKLKT]

The few rocks I hand sprayed 50/50 H2O2/RODI have stayed bare and no sign of the aiptasia that I torched.

I've been dosing a couple of caps of 3% every night in combination with upping my Mg and increased skimming and it's having a drastic effect on the hair algae that had taken hold after the GSP spawnicide. A couple more weeks and I suspect it'll all disappear. Haven't done a water change yet, just doing mechanical removal of the loose stuff.

[Proteus]

Originally Posted by canadianbudz604

Because I've had such good success with peroxide killing aptaisia/red turf algae/ and these bad ass bugs I'm going to start dosing my 36g. Gonna research the amounts I should be using, but I'm going to start with a drop or two. I'll keep my results posted.

Drop or two is useless.. Try 3.6ml a day

[canadianbudz604]

Ya I put around 3

[GoFish]

So is 29% h2o2 nearly 10 times stronger than 3%? I've read that some people dose 1ml per 10g per day, don't recall if it was 3% or 29%, could be a huge difference if that's the case