Hydrogen Peroxide Dip for Bryopsis

[toynewb]

If I'm doing a hydrogen peroxide dip for bryopsis, does it turn white after soaking it for awhile? i put a ~5 lb rock with tons of it in about a 50/50 peroxide/salt water for about 15 minutes.

Worms died off and so did other crawlers, but the algae stayed green mostly and was still hard to remove.

Does it kill it pretty immediately or do I need to soak longer? If I leave out this rock to dry in the sun will it kill off the bryopsis? What happens when I put it back into my tank?

 

[Ron Reefman]

I can't answer your questions, but I can share my experience.

I had simple hairy algae on a rock with some expensive rock flower anemones. I used 3% peroxide on a Q-tip to dab at the algae. I 'dripped' some peroxide on the algae where I could. I left it out of the tank for about 5 minutes and then moved it back into the tank. The nems were very annoyed and were closed up for a day and then back to normal. The algae was still green after a couple of days but after a week it was all gone. I never saw it change color, it just seemed to be dead and disintegrated over time.

 

[Yonp11]

It takes a day or two, but the bryopsis will start to become brittle, then white from the bottom up. It starts to waste away in a few days. This is my experience anyway.

 

[toynewb]

I can't answer your questions, but I can share my experience.

I had simple hairy algae on a rock with some expensive rock flower anemones. I used 3% peroxide on a Q-tip to dab at the algae. I 'dripped' some peroxide on the algae where I could. I left it out of the tank for about 5 minutes and then moved it back into the tank. The nems were very annoyed and were closed up for a day and then back to normal. The algae was still green after a couple of days but after a week it was all gone. I never saw it change color, it just seemed to be dead and disintegrated over time.

this is good info to know! thanks for sharing!

It takes a day or two, but the bryopsis will start to become brittle, then white from the bottom up. It starts to waste away in a few days. This is my experience anyway.

awesome! I'm going to keep it out of my tank for now in a bucket of salt water and see what happens in a day or so. if i remove all the dead bryopsis, would a mini cycle still occur?