martinfish
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For the last year I have been using hydrogen peroxide to eliminate algea from my tank. I am using standard 9% stuff from the chemist and am infusing it into the tank at a rate if 1.5ml per hour using an old medical infusion pump. I have been doing this for over a year and have a virtually algea free tank, apart from a small amount of hair algea on the older leaves of some plants.
I have 3 amazon swords that keep sending out runners. I have vallis that is completly out of control, I remove about 5 vallis plants a month. I also have some kind of leathery cripts that are spreading like mad. There are many other plants that I cannot name.
The tank is a juwel 300 with a 50 watt under soil heater (standard gardening type) contolled by a modified thermostat from maplin, this keeps that tank at 25 degrees +/- 0.2. I also have a co2 system made out of a welding co2 cylinder from machine mart and a pnumatic flow control needle valve.
the hydrogen peroxide does not seem to upset the fish, and I current have kribensis breeding in the tank. If for some reason I run out of peroxide and I leave it for a few days the algea starts to grow, then when I reload with peroxide it disapears.
I read about peroxide as an algea killer a couple of years ago on the net, apparently barly straw releases it as it decomposes and has a similar effect. I couldn't test the theory until I found a way to constantly infuse the stuff into the tank.
Does anyone else have experience of using Hydrogen Peroxide to kill algea?
I have 3 amazon swords that keep sending out runners. I have vallis that is completly out of control, I remove about 5 vallis plants a month. I also have some kind of leathery cripts that are spreading like mad. There are many other plants that I cannot name.
The tank is a juwel 300 with a 50 watt under soil heater (standard gardening type) contolled by a modified thermostat from maplin, this keeps that tank at 25 degrees +/- 0.2. I also have a co2 system made out of a welding co2 cylinder from machine mart and a pnumatic flow control needle valve.
the hydrogen peroxide does not seem to upset the fish, and I current have kribensis breeding in the tank. If for some reason I run out of peroxide and I leave it for a few days the algea starts to grow, then when I reload with peroxide it disapears.
I read about peroxide as an algea killer a couple of years ago on the net, apparently barly straw releases it as it decomposes and has a similar effect. I couldn't test the theory until I found a way to constantly infuse the stuff into the tank.
Does anyone else have experience of using Hydrogen Peroxide to kill algea?
