Re: [GSAS-Member] Hair Algae (was Excel? Glut?)

[Shango Los <shango@shangolos.com>]

Thanks, Roy and Bryan, for your extensive feedback this far.


On 11/14/08 12:45 PM, "Bryan Nichols" <nicholsbryan@gmail.com> wrote:

> Shango,
> 
> Like I said before, I don't know how the live stock would react. It wasn't a
> problem for the snails in there though :) I didn't really care much about
> them anyway :P I guess the only way to test would be to try it out on an
> isolated shrimp. If you think about whats involved it's hard to say how an
> underwater bug would react. Someone who knows can correct me if I am wrong
> but I think all thats happening is we are making lots of O2 and
> oxidizing/bleaching the algae to death. H2O2 is, after all, a very strong
> oxidizer. I would guess that because of algae's relatively simple cellular
> structures they would have no defense against the O2 oxidization. All I know
> is the algae died and I was happy :)
> 
> It worked very quickly the algae was dead after the treatment finished.
> Actually it was kind of neat to watch because the H2O2 turns the tanks into
> a glass of bubbly so to speak. Bubbles all over the place. Lasted for about
> an hour I would say.
> 
> -Bryan
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