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Originally Posted by DNA
Montireef it sounds like you lost everything because of heavy peroxide dozing.
Could you please explain what happened so fellow reefers can learn from it.
Bloody dinoflagellates!
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Not really. H2O2 didn't harm any fish or invert at all even at that high dosage.
I dipped 80% of my livestock (the most valuable acros and LPSs) in fresh water (10 seconds aprox). and then placed in a big tank with a circulation pump, a heater and some ROX0,8 activated charcoal. Some of my most delicate acros like a Jackelinae, echinatas, ciphrastrea... died soon after; there are still some alive but not sure about them). The other 20% isn't sterilized and is sitting in another tank with the same water and dinos but oddly not showing signals of their existence.
I nuked all the tanks, pipes, skimmer, reactors...with cold fresh water and a heavy dose of peroxide. Tomorrow I will drain it away and start filling up with RI/OR water.
Don't know what to do with the surviving corals, maybe selling them.
I feel really bummed, some acros stayed with me for more than ten years.