pico reef pest algae problem challenge

[brandon429]

We haven't found a dosage that kills nitrifying bacteria yet, so i'm not too worried about that its just whole tank treating for red brush algae takes so long compared to a spot treatment that takes five days


try to take out the rocks and treat individually while outside the tank for a direct application right on the target

Place peroxide on the algae wait 5 minutes then rinse

per the pics above it will take 5 days for it to die off
thanks for posting!

 

[Tickyty]

Pre Treatment

Pre Treatment

Here are some before pictures from my tank. I removed the rocks last night and spray treated them and let sit 3-5 minutes and rinsed with RODI then placed back into the tank.

Full Tank, Lower Left, Barnacle, Lower Right, Right Side

 

[brandon429]

this is about to be a great set of before and after pics

 

[brandon429]

Your tank is ideal for the treatment


the sandbed is clean and not storing water

there are no pockets of algae other than the rocks indicates a clean tank
You take care of it

target removal is the right way to take care of this tank

 

[LUCKYLATO]

I went drastic

I went drastic

I have a 40b And I went through a flood back in Sept amazing enough the tank made it but ever since I have been looseing corals and fighting green hair the tank was full I have been slacking on water changes so today I pulled every rock out and coral and bathed it in peroxide then washed it clean water then into fresh salt water then into the tank which I had done a water exchange and clean on. I have just a couple of taodstools and some button polyps left so what the hey.

 

[brandon429]

Any way to take pics before it dies off!?

 

[Tickyty]

24 hours after treatment

24 hours after treatment

I have some pics from yesterday Day 1 but did not have time to post them. I do have to say that I can not give all the credit to this process since I did manually remove some of what I could prior to treating. But there is a visible reduction in the color and it looks to me that there is some death occurring in the tank. This is radicle and would not want to aqua scape everytime to remove the algae but hopefully after this I can stay ahead of the curve. The tank does look a lot better.

Having trouble posting all the pics so I will try later.

 

[Tickyty]

Day 1 Right Side 24 hrs after treatment

Day 1 Right Side 24 hrs after treatment

Sorry for the multiple post but for some reason I can not attach all pics in the same manner from work as I did from home.

 

[brandon429]

If a tank is treated on the first patch vs waiting to treat the whole tank, much less work is needed

you are right its a tool to get back on top of things

still that area w begin to recede now looks good so far
if you reapply any, try a few drops right on the algae then rinse, its a 24 hour kill

 

[aqua80]

tried this on a magnetic rock that was covered with gelidium and bubble algae, treated outside the tank, just poured some h202 directly on the rock !

before :

after 5 days and removing the biggest bubbles :

after 1 day the algae took a red fluorescent color and after 4-5 days everything that was soaked with peroxyde died !

 

[thebanker]

Did the SPS get any H2O2 on it? Because it looks perfectly fine. :thumbsup:

 

[brandon429]

Ha that is a cool treatment pic, first one for Valonia I know of

the other threads were just verbal feedback

 

[aqua80]

Did the SPS get any H2O2 on it? Because it looks perfectly fine. :thumbsup:

I don't think it received peroxyde on it, but I wasn't to chirurgical about it... just opened the bottle and pour some H2O2 on either side of the acropora, le it sit for 2 minutes and rinse with some tank water before putting the rock back...

 

[aqua80]

other before/after pics :

valonias visible after bleaching with peroxyde

gelidium on "high grounds" not harmed by the tsunami os h202

 

[brandon429]

I'm not careful with peroxide either, many times straight 3% lands on each of the corals in my bowl by accident

Just rinse and continue... your sps look sharp. Using peroxide like you did has no negative effect on the aquarium, just kills the target. It works so well people really stretch to find negative things about it

The mild loss of coralline will correct fast, the tank looks better without the bad algae

 

[brandon429]

Ty can we get some more pics it should be even more gone now

 

[KafudaFish]

No pictures but no algae either.

I used very old H2O2 though and it took 2 days for the algae to turn white and die.

 

[brandon429]

Awesome! you would be very surprised how many places across the web speak negatively about peroxide use


On nano reef there is a poster named mcguffin who enjoys reposting all kinds of reasons not to use it, thinks its a sham. He refuses to comment in any of the actual treatment threads however lol




maybe when we get up to 200 pages and 2000 before and after pictures people will see wrecked algae tanks are yesterday.

nothing is new under the sun
but there are new ways to tune what the sun shines on

 

[Tickyty]

Removing dead algae

Removing dead algae

What is the best method to remove the dead white algae?

 

[KafudaFish]

Awesome! you would be very surprised how many places across the web speak negatively about peroxide use


On nano reef there is a poster named mcguffin who enjoys reposting all kinds of reasons not to use it, thinks its a sham. He refuses to comment in any of the actual treatment threads however lol




maybe when we get up to 200 pages and 2000 before and after pictures people will see wrecked algae tanks are yesterday.

nothing is new under the sun
but there are new ways to tune what the sun shines on

His opinion I guess but also his loss at a simple and cheap treatment option that works.