New Year New Algae Experiment

[DLANDINO]

Stay tuned. If I don't wipe my tank out attempting it, I'll run it again and post pics and video.

[sdheath]

Good luck! I feel compelled to take a wild guess. Hydrogen peroxide?

[DLANDINO]

Good luck! I feel compelled to take a wild guess. Hydrogen peroxide?

Thanks. I won't say yet as I don't want anyone else to jump on the band wagon and crash their tank.

[DLANDINO]

Worked, and fast. I'll do a video and post it to you tube but I want to capture a-z

[DLANDINO]

Having run two successful tests on algae patches in my tank and having no negative results to date, I thought I share the process.

I used the following-

1 cap full of peroxide
1/2 tsp baking soda
Baby medicine eye dropper
Small plastic dosing cup
Turkey baster

Mix the peroxide and baking soda together in a small cup and mix until the baking soda is dissolved but viscous. Suck up into the eye dropper about 1ml of the mixture.

Turn off all of the flow and skimming to your tank. Wait until everything falls still and then slowly spread the mixture on to a small patch of algae.

Set 5 minutes on a timer and watch as the mixture starts to emit bubbles.

Once the five minutes has lapsed take a turkey baster and try to suck out all of the peroxide / baking soda sludge dumping it into a waste container.

Within three days I found that all of the algae in that area was gone and after a waiting period of one week had not grown back.

Below are the prep and process pics and video. I will post the results picture in an follow up in a few days. I just performed the procedure a few minutes ago.

DISCLAIMER- this process worked for me with not visible side effects. I do not however know for certain that you would have the same results. Please proceed with caution if you attempt this treatment. You should run carbon after this process for a few days. I always do so for me that is a no brainer. I would also limit the amount of this mixture that you put into your tank. I have done no more than a quarter size patch of algae for fear of collateral damage.

http://i1325.photobucket.com/albums/u637/dlandino1972/47F3B23F-0B3D-4B7F-83C0-D08E8398DA8A_zpswpcbtfgj.jpg (http://s1325.photobucket.com/user/dlandino1972/media/47F3B23F-0B3D-4B7F-83C0-D08E8398DA8A_zpswpcbtfgj.jpg.html)


As you can see there is a huge Duncan colony to the left, a zoo colony directly below and an ORA Birds of Paradise sps colony at the base of this algae growth. I chose this area to test how the mixture does so close to these organisms.
http://i1325.photobucket.com/albums/u637/dlandino1972/64AC66A8-F0DA-429E-8484-C9A8B52040B8_zpsvtqekwpv.jpg (http://s1325.photobucket.com/user/dlandino1972/media/64AC66A8-F0DA-429E-8484-C9A8B52040B8_zpsvtqekwpv.jpg.html)


Video of the reaction
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jW3W66h-jQ

http://i1325.photobucket.com/albums/u637/dlandino1972/10163BAA-6932-4963-80BF-120571757201_zpsusb6sse1.jpg (http://s1325.photobucket.com/user/dlandino1972/media/10163BAA-6932-4963-80BF-120571757201_zpsusb6sse1.jpg.html)

This shows the siphoned peroxide/BS as well as a bunch of already dead algae that just sloughed off the rock. Again, this was in 5 minutes flat.
http://i1325.photobucket.com/albums/u637/dlandino1972/51EE4789-BE93-47F5-90BA-073829AE1AFD_zpsxzowjigo.jpg (http://s1325.photobucket.com/user/dlandino1972/media/51EE4789-BE93-47F5-90BA-073829AE1AFD_zpsxzowjigo.jpg.html)

If you do experiment please feel free to post your results here. Thanks for reading all and good luck!

[MarkL]

Ive used peroxide in tank with no issues but havent heard of the baking soda. Is that to make a thick slurry to help keep it stationary and also visible?

[DLANDINO]

Ive used peroxide in tank with no issues but havent heard of the baking soda. Is that to make a thick slurry to help keep it stationary and also visible?

That was my thought process, yes.

[triggreef]

Nice. I got rid of mine with vodka and vinegar, but now I have another beast to battle. lol

[LeslieP]

I wonder if it would work on bubble algae. It likes to grow in my overflow

[DLANDINO]

The strip right down the center of this patch is what I burned out.
http://i1325.photobucket.com/albums/u637/dlandino1972/963C8E85-845F-4BA9-B86F-327178CE6E13_zpstytzu8ch.jpg (http://s1325.photobucket.com/user/dlandino1972/media/963C8E85-845F-4BA9-B86F-327178CE6E13_zpstytzu8ch.jpg.html)

[sassAwrasse]

Pretty cool. How long are you waiting in between treatments?

[Good_GReef]

Awesome. Following along to see more results. Looks good so far

[DLANDINO]

Awesome. Following along to see more results. Looks good so far

It's as time allows really. I may try again this weekend.

[DLANDINO]

At day three the algae is still withering with no additional treatment. http://i1325.photobucket.com/albums/u637/dlandino1972/CEF9B4C9-178D-4AE4-BF27-E4528A58249E_zps9hjo09g4.jpg (http://s1325.photobucket.com/user/dlandino1972/media/CEF9B4C9-178D-4AE4-BF27-E4528A58249E_zps9hjo09g4.jpg.html)

[DLANDINO]

Should have bottled the stuff and sold it :/ with a name like Super Algae B-gone

[Lowefx]

Update please.

[DLANDINO]

Update please.

I'm algae free post treatment.

[bansawbandit]

Hey Dave, any ill effects from your treatment? Specifically anenomes or blood/cleaner/peppermint shrimp? If you had any that is... Just saw your link in the main forum on Brandon's thread while reading up. I recently just set up a new tank and somehow started with dino's right away :uzi: Just did my own little H2O2 recipe last night and so far it's amazing! I have a blood and a mini maxi already in the tank but so far they are fine, I'm just curious as to yours since you added directly to the tank, while I pulled rocks out. I'll give my tank time before I post methods and results.

[DLANDINO]

Hey Dave, any ill effects from your treatment? Specifically anenomes or blood/cleaner/peppermint shrimp? If you had any that is... Just saw your link in the main forum on Brandon's thread while reading up. I recently just set up a new tank and somehow started with dino's right away :uzi: Just did my own little H2O2 recipe last night and so far it's amazing! I have a blood and a mini maxi already in the tank but so far they are fine, I'm just curious as to yours since you added directly to the tank, while I pulled rocks out. I'll give my tank time before I post methods and results.

Hi there. I had no ill effects from my treatment and I am still algae free. Good luck and post pics!!!

[DLANDINO]

I have had a few questions about this thread lately so I figured I'd bump it I'm case others were interested.

[Lowefx]

Good, what's the best mixture for you. And even tho I scrub my rocks with peroxide outside of my tank, my algae comes back

[DLANDINO]

I use baking soda and peroxide in a paste form so that it sits on the algae patch and doesn't float away.