A dino experiment- Pics now on 1st post!

[rrasco]

I've always treated open wounds with peroxide; hurts much less that isopropyl alcohol.

I'm specifically curious if this would have any affect on bubble or hair algae.

[Sherita]

rrasco, we are going to find out. I am going to boldly go where no MAASTard has gone before

Once I get done with this experiment, I am going to set up my 10g and use the same dose to treat some rocks I have with hair algae. I can't do anything about bubble algae, since I have none to experiment with (thank goodness!!).

[justahobby]

Day three looks amazing!

I experimented with bubble algae a while back by injecting with a very thin needle and was unsuccessful.

[Bill S]

Cyano is not algae, it's bacterial. I tried it on my fw tank, without much luck. I does it with chemiclean. Works great.

[rrasco]

If chemiclean works on bacteria....does it effect your bio bacteria?

[Europhyllia]

dinos are awesome for pods by the way. I can see it being crucial to get rid of them if there's an outbreak in an existing tank (I killed off stuff before with thick layers of dinos after removing some rocks) but I hope people don't get carried away with it and start using it on newly cycled tanks because they would really miss out on something IMO

[Sherita]

Karin, I agree completely.

In this case, this was an established tank that I moved, and set this off. And they were smothering my corals, so something had to be done about it.

[rrasco]

I was just looking this up to see how much you dosed. I've got some dinos I'm fighting, I've dosed about 10ml for a 130g system without seeing the radical change you did. My fuge was full of dinos though, so maybe it's working on them there because there has been a considerable reduction in there.

At any rate, the reason I was posting is because I found this video on the original thread you linked to on r2r, I thought it was worth sharing here for those that didn't see it. Rather interesting to say the least.

[Flyride95]

I just wanted to bump this post and say thank you so much for making this thread. I had Dino's really bad. I at first was thinking they were another wave of diatoms but then it was like basically brown snot that was over everything. It blow up fast. And not only that but the bubbles in them. Anyway I found this on the site and decided to give it a shot because I was at wits end. And boy let me tell you my tank is perfectly clean with crystal clear water. Thank you so much for this post one more time. I wish it could be pinned so it stays up top.


I dosed 8ml in my system which is 75gallons. 8ml every night when the lights go out (yes I'm weird about h2o2 and sunlight). By day 6 the tank is completely clean. I will continue to dose for 4 more days.

[Richard]

When I treated a tank with an oxidizer to clean it up, I preferred to use potassium permangenate instead of hydrogen peroxide. The thing about oxidizers is that the dosage is different depending on th amount of organics in the water. So with peroxide you are doing a bit of guessing. PP on the other hand gives you a visual cue as to how much to add since it is a purple liquid. So I would add enough to give a slight purplish tint to the water as it oxidizes organics it turns brownish telling you that you need to add a little more. The other nice thing about pp is if you over dose it or livestock is looking too stressed you can neutralize it almost instantly with guess what..hydrogen peroxide.

So if you're in an experimenting mood you can try potasium permangenate. Here's a link to someone treating a pond with pp to give you an idea about the color thing...
http://www.bonniesplants.com/PotassiumPermanganate.html

Just don't treat as long or aggressively as the koi pond people do...reef tank livestock is a little more sensitive than koi & goldfish. Or you could just take the safest method and dose small amounts daily which is the instructions on Kent Marine's Poly-Ox, which is just potassium permangenate.