simcb
11th Apr 2005, 07:55 AM
For Planted Guys who are desperately looking for way to kill BBA(Black Brush) continue reading.
Hydrogen Peroxide Nuking(Your Last Resort)
Its only a temp solution for desperate guys when blackouts and increase Co2 fails to kill the stubborn algae in your tank. After the treatment(usually last a week) its best to reduce the dosage on your fertilizters do a big water change and Add Beneficial Bacteria Solution to speed up the cycling incase of Ammonia or nirate spike.
Take note: Your tank water might turn cloudy after treatment.
For details on a successful attempt refer to the below link which i got from a thread in another forum and a few guys from that forum has achieve success too however the success varies as overdosing could kill some plants like ricca and vallis:
http://www.malawicichlidhomepage.com/aquainfo/algae_peroxide.html
I have also start the H2O2 nuking yesterday as the increasing infestation of BBA has trigger my "piss" mode.
As H2O2 breaks down easily in light its best to dose at night a few hours before lights off. Inject H2O2 directly on the infected areas for best effects. A note of caution:
During injecting be sure to chase away any fish or shrimp near the target area.
Day 1: (Apr 10 2005)
Bought A bottle of Hydrogen peroixde 500ml(3% concentration) from a pharamacy.
dosage:2ml per gallon.
added 20ml in total over a period of 10-20mins with a dropper.
The hair algae was bubbling when the H2O2 was applied to them.
Some Staghorn and BBA has start to turn pink after 8 hours. So did the stubborn short hair algae on the tank walls has started to turn a little pink.
Next morning(No death of shrimps or Otos or Boraras so far)
However the livestock has some signs of hyperactive behavior.
Day 2: (Apr 11 2005)
No more hyperactive behavior of my livestocks probably most H2O2 has decomposed.
reduced dosage= 1.5ml per gallon
More black algae turn pink at the rainbar as compared to in the morning. Today start target horse algae and plants infected with algae.
No causalties so far.
Accounted ....the 1 survivor CRS + 3 companion crs + 1 diamond + 30 over cherry and 3 fishes.
Day 3: (Apr 12 2005)
Hyper active behavior observed in the morning. No causalties.
dosage: 20ml
dosage= 2ml per gallon
some hair algae on the tank wall turn white.
Day4: Stopped (Apr 13 2005)
No causalties. Found the source of algae outbreak---
accumulated debris and parts of a dead shrimp trapped under the ricca floorings. The dead shrimp is quite decomposed being there for 2 weeks i estimate was during the time the HDB fogging killed 99% of my crs+ a few cherries...i missed out one while removing the dead bodies
I sphion some of debris and let my shrimps finish up the job ...they seems to like the debris a lot. I notice the planarias pop explosion source is also the accumulated debris and dead body. They are feeding on the remains. Caught around 20 ++ planaria manually with dropper( :evil: fried them with H2O2 before disposing them).
End of treatment(its should at least a 7-day treatment)
Sorry folks, i am not going to continue this experiment. I will try rectify the water parameters first with large amount of water changes to stun the algae from spreading. So far no lost of fish or shrimps....only some dead algae :) .
Hydrogen Peroxide Nuking(Your Last Resort)
Its only a temp solution for desperate guys when blackouts and increase Co2 fails to kill the stubborn algae in your tank. After the treatment(usually last a week) its best to reduce the dosage on your fertilizters do a big water change and Add Beneficial Bacteria Solution to speed up the cycling incase of Ammonia or nirate spike.
Take note: Your tank water might turn cloudy after treatment.
For details on a successful attempt refer to the below link which i got from a thread in another forum and a few guys from that forum has achieve success too however the success varies as overdosing could kill some plants like ricca and vallis:
http://www.malawicichlidhomepage.com/aquainfo/algae_peroxide.html
I have also start the H2O2 nuking yesterday as the increasing infestation of BBA has trigger my "piss" mode.
As H2O2 breaks down easily in light its best to dose at night a few hours before lights off. Inject H2O2 directly on the infected areas for best effects. A note of caution:
During injecting be sure to chase away any fish or shrimp near the target area.
Day 1: (Apr 10 2005)
Bought A bottle of Hydrogen peroixde 500ml(3% concentration) from a pharamacy.
dosage:2ml per gallon.
added 20ml in total over a period of 10-20mins with a dropper.
The hair algae was bubbling when the H2O2 was applied to them.
Some Staghorn and BBA has start to turn pink after 8 hours. So did the stubborn short hair algae on the tank walls has started to turn a little pink.
Next morning(No death of shrimps or Otos or Boraras so far)
However the livestock has some signs of hyperactive behavior.
Day 2: (Apr 11 2005)
No more hyperactive behavior of my livestocks probably most H2O2 has decomposed.
reduced dosage= 1.5ml per gallon
More black algae turn pink at the rainbar as compared to in the morning. Today start target horse algae and plants infected with algae.
No causalties so far.
Accounted ....the 1 survivor CRS + 3 companion crs + 1 diamond + 30 over cherry and 3 fishes.
Day 3: (Apr 12 2005)
Hyper active behavior observed in the morning. No causalties.
dosage: 20ml
dosage= 2ml per gallon
some hair algae on the tank wall turn white.
Day4: Stopped (Apr 13 2005)
No causalties. Found the source of algae outbreak---
accumulated debris and parts of a dead shrimp trapped under the ricca floorings. The dead shrimp is quite decomposed being there for 2 weeks i estimate was during the time the HDB fogging killed 99% of my crs+ a few cherries...i missed out one while removing the dead bodies
I sphion some of debris and let my shrimps finish up the job ...they seems to like the debris a lot. I notice the planarias pop explosion source is also the accumulated debris and dead body. They are feeding on the remains. Caught around 20 ++ planaria manually with dropper( :evil: fried them with H2O2 before disposing them).
End of treatment(its should at least a 7-day treatment)
Sorry folks, i am not going to continue this experiment. I will try rectify the water parameters first with large amount of water changes to stun the algae from spreading. So far no lost of fish or shrimps....only some dead algae :) .