how to kill green hair algae in saltwater tank fast using hydrogen peroxide
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- how to kill green hair algae in saltwater tank fast using hydrogen peroxide. 12% works just as well as 35%. 35% is always in limited quantities and sells out fast.
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how to kill green hair algae in saltwater tank fast using hydrogen peroxide. 12% works just as well as 35%. 35% is always in limited quantities and sells out fast.
Hydrogen Peroxide food grade 12%
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Food Grade Hydrogen Peroxide 35%
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i realize it is kind of off topic but do anyone know of a good site to stream new tv shows online?
@Mohammed Wilder Lately I have been using flixzone. You can find it on google :)
@Mohammed Wilder I use Flixzone. You can find it by googling :)
Surface area is more important that total water volume .
Always nice to have another tool in the reef tool shed!
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Thanks for the advice, I just got my hydrogen peroxide and added the first dose.
great! just dose slowly. it will work.
Tank looks really incredible! What a great comeback story! I think your fish look the healthiest of any on UA-cam. What would you say is your #1 tip for such healthy fish?
Thanks!
thanks a lot. i feed them only Rod's food and collard greens. collard greens are cheap....in your grocery store fruit and vegetable section. i also give nori here and there. they need their leafy greens. thanks!
Looking good Steve! THinking about buying a thin sheet of smooth white hdpe & cutting it to fit the bottom of my display tank so I can have the look of white sand.....until it gets covered by coral!....and I could scrap it off for an easy refresh and create a new look if I want. SOme downsides, but a lot of upsides as well.
sounds like a great plan.
Tang Tank looking awesome 😎
thanks. i have plans for it to look even better!
Congratulations on getting rid of the hair algae you must be so happy to finally have it gone 👍🏻
i am very happy. so sick of it
Better than Fluconazole huh? Seems so easy and simple...does it kill the coralline algae?
way better than fluconazole. fluconazole did nothing for me. my tank was completely wiped clean of gha in 3 days. it's very simple...but....i put more in than i should and everything was fine. it did not kill my coralline. seems to only go after the fungus based mess.
The folks telling you to get a bigger tank are probably the same people with 53 convict cichlids in a 40 gal breeder
yeah and the fish were all fine. technically, NO TANK is big enough. Fish should be in the ocean.
What about adverse effects on macro algae in the refugium?
great question! it doesn't affect that
@@ROTTERtube I dosed last night for the first time. Fingers crossed that this stupid hair algae starts receding.
Rob Bochniak did it start to yet?
@@robbochniak4116 did you use 35% or 12%?
I can almost bet you it's the T5 fixture you have over your tank they are not adjustable so I would think you have way too much lighting. I know you're trying your best but what do you think Steve
not sure, could be, i've thought of that. i had the T5 for a year with no issues at all though. the bulbs were changed out a couple months ago as well. surfing around for cheap LED lights for fun right now
I don't think it's the t5 fixture. Tidal Gardens uses a very similar model and has no issues with algae. Another thing to consider is that my tank is only a little bit bigger than his and I have to use a six bulb fixture just so I can have acroporas at the top of my rock structures.
hmmmm. i think i will be getting rid of the T5 and getting a couple LED chinese boxes as a test as finances allow. i love LED
Rotter Tube Reef if you want to try led; you could try marsaqua or oceans revive. Many people use them with great success. CJ and Rico both use the ocean revive and their tanks look great.
i'm going with the MarsAqua
Please do not use it if you have urchins in the tank. I did everything as the video indicates and my urchin died 😢😢. I thought I had read something about the urchin been able to stand this cleaning process, but I guess I was wrong (I came back to the comments and found that no one says that urchins can endure this). Everything else in my tank seems to be able to be ok, even tiny baby snails and copepods, but my urchin didn't make it. I even placed him alone in my quarantine tank so that he wouldn't keep getting harmed by the hydrogen and I couldn't save him 😞☹️☹️☹️
Why does your tanks sound so loud? Thanks for sharing. Willing to try and so sick of green hair algea.
Probably because I was close to it and using a sensitive mic.
This hasn't worked for me so far. Please help me. I've got a 10 gallon aquarium. Lots of green hair algae. Zero phosphates. 1 small fish, two small corals, 1 crab (emerald--supposed to eat algae) and 1 snail. I'm using the 35% diluted to 8%. I'm compensating for the dilution so my dosage of 8% solution becomes 5ml every other day. It's had no effect on the algae. Any suggestions or ideas?
do ONE ML OF food grade hydrogen peroxide directly on the algae with all pumps off. it will melt it away instantly. i don't know about diluting. i added it right to the tank. for the really tough stuff i dosed direct with no pumps on. my tank looked like a green mossy swamp with algae 4-6" long. it was gross. looked like spinach everywhere. i did it for 1 week with never algae again.
David A you might want to scrub the algae of with a tooth brush, in a 5 gal bucket
I just ordered the 35% hydrogen peroxide. My tank is 65 gallons so I know I need to add 6.5ml’s every other day per the above comments but where do I need to add it? Directly to the water or onto the rocks / crushed coral?
i added directly to the tank. when i had green hair algae i turned everything off and dosed right on top of the algae and let it bubble / melt away
Rotter Tube Reef I just tried it and I got a lot of bubbling but none of the algae melted away. 🤦🏼♂️
Hello. Should i turn off the reactor that has activated carbon?for a treatment with hydrogen peroxide?
Shouldn't have to, but a couple days wouldn't hurt.
Steve, how often did you dose the peroxide?
hey Jimmy, i dosed once every other day for only a week, so maybe 3 times....and the algae never returned!
Glad to know that I am not the only one hates tall tank
So we have gotten a 75gallon tank with a lot of live rock, urchins and hermit crabs, 3 cleaner shrimp, 4 star fish and a few other crabs well were doing everything we were told to do at the salt water store but were having alot of issuses we have had 5 fish die (2 clowns, hippo tang and a couple lawnmowers) plus an urchin, shrimp and a couple crabs died weve tested everything and the only thing wrong was the ammonia but we fixed it weeks ago and stuff is still dying. Is there anything you can give me tips on to fix this?
Our water is also really cloudy even with thw water changes we do. Weve got alot of green hair algae but we want to wait to hear what you say about our tank in general before we do your suggestion on the algae
Try adding a bubbler to your tank. I had the same problem, my fish were dying but everything else was fine corals, shrimp, crabs. I added a bubbler and havent lost a fish yet. The problem with me was I had a lack of dissolved oxygen in the water.
@@rayvaldez8745 thank you ill try thst
@@rayvaldez8745 I never put a bubbler in my tank. I thought I had heard not to use one in a salt water tank? Is this incorrect?
Will adding peroxide damage purple corraline algae?
nope
How often did you dose the 1ml per 10 gallons when you had the algae problem?
I did it every other day for a week. never had to do it again. algae still gone
Does it work on algae at the glass?
yes it does
@@ROTTERtube thanks, greats video...
I can't find the blubonic industries 35% hydrogen peroxide anywhere... All I see is the 12%.... Do they not sell it anymore?
Amazon took it down, I believe, since it was too potent to sell online. 12% is what's available now....so you can dose accordingly. triple what I said......
I found it on the blubonic website
Hey so is it 1mL of 35% per every 10 gallons? So for 60g tank =6mL of HP 35%???
Is hydrogen peroxide safe for anemones like tube, carpet and green tip anemones??
it may irritate them but after a couple days they're fine.
You have a large tank steve. I have 60 gallon or under tanks so you still have a large tank.
yeah, i love my 125. it's the perfect size for me. love the 6' length and the slim design. i love the longer tanks. if i get another tank it would have to be 8' long.
How much do you dose if using 3% HP ?
i have not dosed 3% but that's available online.
Hello Steve, it's been awhile since I've been on here. I'm starting new on my channel, deleted all my vids due to not being able to change my gmail address which was my account address. Total bummer but was getting a damn hacker who kept writing to my email so had to do it. In all this time, Things were going well, and still are, but the same. This damned blue green hair or turf algae, NoPox didnt do squat. P04 and N03 are undetectable. But it continued to grow no matter how I siphoned it out it just came back thicker. Lack of snails is also a reason and too high % of light on my reefbreeders led. My fouler also with just my trigger. He eats snails & hermits. Bio Pellets and Phosban doing nothing. Its like what the hell do we do? So I'm going to bust a nut and do the peroxide thingy. Wish me luck brotha. I will keep you informed.
good luck dude. dose 2ml hydrogen peroxide for every 10 gallons saltwater.
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@@ROTTERtube Only have 3% right now, 35% coming by next Wednesday. I'm dosing 30 ml with 3 % . I may be taking down the scrubber again because if it was truly working up to its potential, none of this would have happened. However, I may keep it, as it has been keeping N03 & P04 at undetectable levels, so that leaves me looking into my lights and hourage. I've cut down from 10 hrs to 5 hrs on both display and fouler. I may do a few vids to show what I'm going through. If the Hydrogen Peroxide works, and I believe it will, It will be nice to have videos showing this. So far at 3% 30Ml, no corals are showing any signs of stress whatsoever, So I'm observing and dosing accordingly. Display is about 170 total gallons, Fouler is about 150 gallons.
@@ROTTERtube one week using 35%, looks like its loosening up, but its not gone. starting to smell like seaweed in my basement. I was hoping for better results. Started first few days with just 10ml then 15 by the 5th day and now 30ml every other day and the hair algae is still there. 35% is fairly expensive. I really don't know at this point to continue, nothing really works. Been a week and a half now and cannot see it happening. Going to have to change the water and siphon what I can now, it's been too long without the results I had hoped for. Sorry Steve, Glad it works for you, but its not for me. This algae I have is bad news.
Dude mine was really really bad and my house was starting to smell like a swamp. turn off the pumps and nail that algae with a syringe. drop it right over that algae and it will melt away. that's what you need to do. that's what i did. i had hair algae that was all over, like 3" long.
I started using chemi clean because I was getting black algae on sandbed I know that works . However , now I have green hair algae , excited to see of this will work ! May I ask how fast it works ?
it took 2 days. my tank went from a jungle to nothing in 3 days. i also overdosed it......which i don't recommend because i don't want to be responsible for anything.
Rotter Tube Reef lol don’t worry rotter you won’t be responsible
Hope this stuff works I just bought some waiting for it to come in.
it certainly worked for me no issues! it took 2 days for a very noticeable difference. 3 days and it was gone. i also dosed 3 times the amount, which i am not recommending to anyone. no issues with my tank, just saying. go slow with it. don't get it on your hands. no livestock was affected in my tank.
Rotter Tube Reef did u dose into sump or directly onto the algae?
either way, doesn't matter. i used a syringe and squirted it right on the algae and watched it melt away. it gets in your tank fast regardless where you put it.
Rotter Tube Reef ok here is a update I used it for 2 days and all my green hair algae is almost gone so this stuff does work. I had to does less then what you said my corals didn't like it much but they opened back up same day. Corals, fish, and enamane are doing just fine.
awesome news! i noticed right away after dosing it there was a nice smell, like the ocean, how the tank used to be, once the green hair algae was melting away.
Had a lemon peel dwarf angel fish once not reef safe at all
really? hmmmm. my brother has one and it's really nice. what did your's do?
Rotter Tube Reef i had to tear down my reef just to get him out better luck with coral beauty and flame angel fish
why did you have to get him out? was he aggressive?
Rotter Tube Reef no nip at corals eating zoa and other corals
Does peroxide work on all algae?
peroxide breaks down the cell walls instantly of algae. it won't affect your refugium or coralline algae which is good.
Nice tank, but I think most of us agree it would look better if the back is painted black.
Will it affect coraline algae?
not at all
@@ROTTERtube awesome! Just ordered some thank you for the video
awesome! welcome!
Surprised your tangs don't clean everything
me too. they're spoiled with rod's food and collard greens
Collard Greens? I wouldn't mind being a fish in your tank.
Any idea how to kill maiden hair algae?
i do not, sorry
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thanks!
I have a 60 gallon. How much of 35% do I need to add?
3ml from a syringe with pumps off for 10 minutes while you dose on the algae. pick a new algae spot every day. turn pumps on after 10 minutes.
Will this harm my coral?
coral don't like it too much but they will be fine after a week roughly. they close a bit.
Applied my first dose today, didnt do much. Just bubbled.
turn off all your pumps and power heads. you need to dose over the green hair algae so it bubbles it away before your eyes.
Does this also work for cyanobacteria?
yes, but turning off all lights and covering the tank with a blanket for a week or two will get rid of all cyano.
If you dose 3% peroxide? Do you multiply the doseage amount by 10?
yes you would
Does it have to be food grade still of it's 3%?
Bruh, you’ve got numerous tangs, there’s no shock in not having algae
All those herbivores. I think it might have been bryopsis
Steve did it kill your snails
hey Rosco, it did not.