so i got an outbreak, my own fault, no WC and just general neglect of the tank
i really do not want to chip rock,....and i sure as heck aint usin bleach on anything goin back in the tank.
im doing good to actually go in and do something about it..
in the past BA has not really bothered me, and it didnt really spread if i didnt mess w/ it
apparently it wants to die now, and has pissed me off
mood music
im gonna try using hydrogen peroxide to burn it off my LR....ive read they use it as a treatment for pest algea in FW tanks with some success, and i plan to try to kill the spores to prevent it from spreading when i remove it...
h2o2 is mostly water and should have much less of an impact on my system vs using some other chemical, if any
manual removal can involve at least one bursting, a problem if you tried to remove it while it was still in the system, i dont see how a emerald crab can be effective, if its popping the BA to eat it, spreading it more...
unlike the FW dosing method, i will be spot treating rock outside my system and doing a WC at the same time
im trying to keep spores in the water column to bare minimum
i do not wanna break my tank down again......
on with it i guess, gear and problem rock pics....not shown, 2.5gal rinse tank, and lots and lots of fresh mixed SW
Full Version: Pest algea experiment: peroxide
Good luck!
remember that thread where i thought i wouldnt have to scrape rock to get rid of bubble algae and i thought i was cool and stuff...
this aint it
i ended up with a compleat tear down b/c i was more infested than i thought...behind the rocks
i also found bryo and some crazy stuff that looks like cheato, but has a hold fast...
i went with a combination of draining the big ones, spraying libral amounts of h202 on heavy infestions...
and plucking and scraping
anyway, i let one rock soak in peroxide, not submerged, i sprayed it everynow and then, expecially where the bryo was.....
it kills stars, pods and worms on contact pretty much, so expect die off if you decide to try it...
my main concern was not spreading the spores
i now have to mount some zoas, but i was so pissed that i did a compleat clean out
now i wait.......hopefully i wont break out again....
i left one small patch of bryo that i soaked on the rock, to see if the peroxide killed it
im mad at the ocean right now, so ill be playing in my planted tank for a couple weeks
i need a photobucket account....in order, wierd cheato like weed, and the most of the bubble algea i cleaned off
this aint it
i ended up with a compleat tear down b/c i was more infested than i thought...behind the rocks
i also found bryo and some crazy stuff that looks like cheato, but has a hold fast...
i went with a combination of draining the big ones, spraying libral amounts of h202 on heavy infestions...
and plucking and scraping
anyway, i let one rock soak in peroxide, not submerged, i sprayed it everynow and then, expecially where the bryo was.....
it kills stars, pods and worms on contact pretty much, so expect die off if you decide to try it...
my main concern was not spreading the spores
i now have to mount some zoas, but i was so pissed that i did a compleat clean out
now i wait.......hopefully i wont break out again....
i left one small patch of bryo that i soaked on the rock, to see if the peroxide killed it
im mad at the ocean right now, so ill be playing in my planted tank for a couple weeks
i need a photobucket account....in order, wierd cheato like weed, and the most of the bubble algea i cleaned off
i had flaps of dead white algea in the tank today....and it bleached the one rock a little....
some of the red wire algea stuff seemed to be coming off the rock now also....maybe the h2o2 worked..
it still involves scraping, but if it burns bryo hold fasts i might be on to something.....ill see if i can get a piece out of my algea tank and try to burn the whole macro w/ peroxide...
more waiting.....
some of my readin....
http://www.gpodio.com/h2o2.asp
http://www.malawicichlidhomepage.com/aquai...e_peroxide.html
http://www.theaquariumwiki.com/H2O2
http://www.guppies.com/forums/showthread.p...hair-21075.html
nothing in ref. to marine aquariums cept velvet treatment and not to dose the tank with it...
again, it kills pods, stars, and worms pretty much on contact, my xenia also has some burns to it, but its not really hurt....open and pulsing...
some of the red wire algea stuff seemed to be coming off the rock now also....maybe the h2o2 worked..
it still involves scraping, but if it burns bryo hold fasts i might be on to something.....ill see if i can get a piece out of my algea tank and try to burn the whole macro w/ peroxide...
more waiting.....
some of my readin....
http://www.gpodio.com/h2o2.asp
http://www.malawicichlidhomepage.com/aquai...e_peroxide.html
http://www.theaquariumwiki.com/H2O2
http://www.guppies.com/forums/showthread.p...hair-21075.html
nothing in ref. to marine aquariums cept velvet treatment and not to dose the tank with it...
again, it kills pods, stars, and worms pretty much on contact, my xenia also has some burns to it, but its not really hurt....open and pulsing...
i thought i was a nerd for posting "symphony of destruction" as mood music for my project, however now seeing the aftermath, its kind of appropriate....hydrogen peroxide is an indescriminate killer
-pros-
probably a much safer solution than bleach, lye, muriatic acid which could impact water greatly, peroxide breaks down into water and O2, no prime needed to treat rock.
not quite as drastic as tossing the rock,boiling, baking, microwaving or drying it out..
kills alot of life on the rock, but not all of it....anything hiding deep enough could survive....but that means any algea missed has a chance too, thats why i would recomend combining it with manual removal
-cons-
kills better than expected
its definantly a killer....kills pods, microstars, worms, and benefitial bacteria along with algea(coraline too), burns corals at full strenght (used 3% drug store solution) could possibly be used for other hard to handle pests....if your willing to accept the collateral damage
im glad i didnt submerge the rock and let it soak
still dont know a good contact time to say for sure how long to treat an affected area.....the major infestation was treated for at least 15+ and its stripped the surface pretty much other rocks were only treated for 5-10 min.....the red wirery stuff seems to be flaking off.....ill get the scientific name for it later..
long term effects?????if any...i expect none cept small cycle from die off
dont go trying this , i would try other solutions first, keep this as one of the last resorts, right above setting the rock on fire, give me another week or two give more feed back, see how my tank takes it
i expect my tank to be pissed at me....im loading up on chemipure, carbon, and lots of fresh mix SW....ill get the diatoms here in the next couple days....
this is a pic of the same rock that had all the pest algea on it...its not void of life, one or two worms made it....hopefully what algea is left is just there till something cleans it off, lots of transprent victims
-pros-
probably a much safer solution than bleach, lye, muriatic acid which could impact water greatly, peroxide breaks down into water and O2, no prime needed to treat rock.
not quite as drastic as tossing the rock,boiling, baking, microwaving or drying it out..
kills alot of life on the rock, but not all of it....anything hiding deep enough could survive....but that means any algea missed has a chance too, thats why i would recomend combining it with manual removal
-cons-
kills better than expected
its definantly a killer....kills pods, microstars, worms, and benefitial bacteria along with algea(coraline too), burns corals at full strenght (used 3% drug store solution) could possibly be used for other hard to handle pests....if your willing to accept the collateral damage
im glad i didnt submerge the rock and let it soak
still dont know a good contact time to say for sure how long to treat an affected area.....the major infestation was treated for at least 15+ and its stripped the surface pretty much other rocks were only treated for 5-10 min.....the red wirery stuff seems to be flaking off.....ill get the scientific name for it later..
long term effects?????if any...i expect none cept small cycle from die off
dont go trying this , i would try other solutions first, keep this as one of the last resorts, right above setting the rock on fire, give me another week or two give more feed back, see how my tank takes it
i expect my tank to be pissed at me....im loading up on chemipure, carbon, and lots of fresh mix SW....ill get the diatoms here in the next couple days....
this is a pic of the same rock that had all the pest algea on it...its not void of life, one or two worms made it....hopefully what algea is left is just there till something cleans it off, lots of transprent victims
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