Hydrogen Peroxide dosing

[Chris]

My 13 gallon nano zoanthid garden is going through a bit of a cycling rough patch with some hair algae. Been doing a lot of reading on H202 dosing for ridding tanks of nuisance algae. Anyone here have any experience with it?


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[David]

I wouldn't recommend putting hydrogen peroxide in your fish tank. There are many more conventional safe ways to lower nutrients and starve out algae. None of them work fast. But they do work. Water changes, protein skimmers, Medea reactors, macro algae, turf scrubbers, are a few proven safe methods.

 

[Sunny]

I does H2O2 in my tank on a regular basis with no ill effects. However I do not believe that it will help with algae other than dino.

 

[Mike H]

I have used 35% food grade along with Fleishmans rapid rise yeast to combat dino algae that just didn't want to die......ARGGGhh.. But doing the yeast every other day, and h202 every other day...think I finally kicked it... But the inverts , crabs etc...wont fair with H202

 

[David]

Hmm. I guess h2o2 dosing is more common practice then I thought.

 

[art13]

Run gfo or some other way to lower nitrients, dosing h2o2 isn't worth it

 

[MatteZ]

I try to dose peroxide on a daily basis. The only way to get peroxide to kill hair algae is to squirt it directly on it.

 

[Trio91]

Also, for now manually remove as much of the hair algae as possible. Essentially, you will be removing the nutrients from your system. Follow that with water changes

Have you tried purigen? As a preventive maintenance method? I was running that along with chemi pure elite in my old 10gal IM

 

[Chris]

I have not tried purigen but I will look into it. Which chemipure elite did you use (size)?


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[Chris]

Do you use purigen in place of carbon or in addition to?


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[MatteZ]

I just recently used Fluconazole to wipe out my hair algae problem. It worked almost perfectly!

 

[Trio91]

Do you use purigen in place of carbon or in addition to?


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I was using both purigen and CPE in that small tank as I was not running a skimmer. So that and water changes was what worked for me.

 

[Trio91]

I have not tried purigen but I will look into it. Which chemipure elite did you use (size)?


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Use the size based on ur tank volume. They do make it for nano tanks

 

[Chris]

It's a 13.5 but the nano is for 10 gallons. You think two bags is overkill?


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[Trio91]

It's a 13.5 but the nano is for 10 gallons. You think two bags is overkill?


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Like anything, start out slow....too much can also be a bad thing. the CPE has gfo in it plus it's carbon mix son you should be able to ditch your carbon bag once you add this. Place it in a area with some flow. I had mines under my filter sock in the IM

 

[David]

The Santa Monica HOG 0.5 algae scrubber is working wonders on my nano. The hair algae has dissapeared from the dt less than a month. The scrubber is small too, 4" by 6". The 0.5 designation means it can consume the nutrients from 1/2 a frozen cube a day, regardless of tank size.

 

[Chris]

David, did you purchase that algae scrubber online?


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[David]

Yes amazon.

 

[Trio91]

for that size tank, you may want to try the .2 Drop Algae Scrubber (that's what i use on my current tank)
DROP.2 drop-in upflow algae scrubber with Green Grabber surfaces - 0.2 cubes feeding per day

for the HOG, you can make a DIY version if you are into that

or you get it from the site
HOG.5 Hang-On-Glass UAS Upflow Algae Scrubber - 1/2 Cube feeding per day

 

[Chris]

I've never used an algae scrubber before. How do they work?


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