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

["Susan Welenofsky" <welenofsky@comcast.net>]

I managed to kill almost every fish in my tank once with H2O2 after
neutralizing some potassium permanganate. 

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Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 12:29 PM
To: Greater Seattle Aquarium Society member chat
Subject: Re: [GSAS-Member] Hair Algae (was Excel? Glut?)

That is an interesting treatment I had not heard of.  This is a shrimp tank
though.  Wouldn't the H2O2 kill the Cherries, Yellows and Crystals?  How
fast did it work for you?


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

> Shango,
> 
> Have you tried H2O2? I tried this in my shrimp tank after they had all
> passed away. I had some plants in there that I wanted to save but they had
> developed some clado on them. So I gave the peroxide method a whirl.
> Amazingly it worked very well! The only thing that I noticed as a
"negative
> side effect" was that the roots of the duck weed all fell off. For me it
was
> a good thing because I didn't want that stuff in there anyway :) Fine
leaved
> things in that tank were also affected but recovered. The basic formula I
> found was 1oz / 10 gallons. Be forewarned however, I don't know what it
does
> to live stock. Snails seemed to survive fine and I've read that fish
aren't
> bothered by it but I cant say from my experience/experiment. The best part
> of H2O2 is that once it's done reacting it turns into water and oxygen so
> you don't even have to do a water change :)
> 
> Aside from the chemical used, spot treatment usually works very well. I've
> found if you are vigilant then you can eliminate almost all of the algae
> with this method. Then if you can figure out what the imbalance in your
tank
> is you can correct it and the little algae that is left will go away.
Also,
> if you do a heavy spot treatment and get almost all of it, overdosing
excel
> does a good job of getting rid of the rest I've found.
> 
> -Bryan
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