Rivergardennursery Posted May 17, 2016 Report Share Posted May 17, 2016 Freshwater planted shrimp tank, Hydrogen Peroxide to treat Green String Algae 3% Hydrogen Peroxide spot treatment of 3ml per Gallon. Let it sit for 20 min, then 20% water change Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nicpapa Posted May 17, 2016 Report Share Posted May 17, 2016 After using Hydrogen Peroxide i saw some shrimp burned from this . The have some burn spots on the body Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rivergardennursery Posted May 17, 2016 Author Report Share Posted May 17, 2016 2 minutes ago, nicpapa said: After using Hydrogen Peroxide i saw some shrimp burned from this . The have some burn spots on the body Did it go away after the next Molt? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nicpapa Posted May 17, 2016 Report Share Posted May 17, 2016 Just now, Rivergardennursery said: Did it go away after the next Molt? Yes it go away wiht molt... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brolly33 Posted May 18, 2016 Report Share Posted May 18, 2016 Very interested to see results of this. Will your moss live? Any shrimp or fish losses? Will the string algae actually die off? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rivergardennursery Posted May 18, 2016 Author Report Share Posted May 18, 2016 Day 2. This was what everything looked like 24 hours later. Green Hair Algae still looks the same. On the positive side, the fish and shrimp are still healthy. My TDS is at 145. I will try another spot treatment later in the day Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devilduck Posted May 18, 2016 Report Share Posted May 18, 2016 Is that a marimo you have in the tank? It maybe the cause of all the hair algae. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. F Posted May 18, 2016 Report Share Posted May 18, 2016 Try removing some manually before you treat then again a day after. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rivergardennursery Posted May 19, 2016 Author Report Share Posted May 19, 2016 17 hours ago, devilduck said: Is that a marimo you have in the tank? It maybe the cause of all the hair algae. Really, I do have 4 of them in the tank. I have them in all my tanks I can try and remove to see if anything changes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rivergardennursery Posted May 19, 2016 Author Report Share Posted May 19, 2016 17 hours ago, Mr. F said: Try removing some manually before you treat then again a day after. Thanks, I do remove a bunch first, each time. Going to try another treatment today Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brolly33 Posted July 4, 2016 Report Share Posted July 4, 2016 @Rivergardennursery Update? Did the treatment work? Any treatment related losses of moss or lifestock? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rivergardennursery Posted July 5, 2016 Author Report Share Posted July 5, 2016 On 7/4/2016 at 8:19 AM, Brolly33 said: @Rivergardennursery Update? Did the treatment work? Any treatment related losses of moss or lifestock? Thank You for asking. Short answer is no, but..... Do to this being my work tank, I leave the lights on too long (about 9-10 hours a day). I have added a few floaters to reduce the intensity but the growth was too much for the spot treatments. On the plus side, I did not loose any shrimp and the plants all seemed fine. I believe if I had a good balance between lights and amount of time the lights are on, this would have worked. I decided to buy Twinstar Shrimp and that is working like a charm for the algae. See my thread over here -->http://www.shrimpspot.com/index.php?/topic/6839-my-twinstar-shrimp-log/#comment-82957 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JuanSan Posted August 8, 2016 Report Share Posted August 8, 2016 Be very careful with peroxide in tanks with shrimp I have burned an entire batch with a minimum amount of h2o2 before because it wasnt circulated enough. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ianhamm Posted September 4, 2016 Report Share Posted September 4, 2016 talk to Chaz of Elevate shrimp. I hear he has a great product to handle hair algae. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soothing Shrimp Posted September 4, 2016 Report Share Posted September 4, 2016 Chaz is a great guy with a good reputation. I tried his hair algae killer last year, and my shrimp died. Maybe it was error use on my part? Too gun-shy to try again. Ianhamm 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vpier Posted September 4, 2016 Report Share Posted September 4, 2016 On 9/3/2016 at 9:29 PM, Ianhamm said: talk to Chaz of Elevate shrimp. I hear he has a great product to handle hair algae. I have used his product several times and didn't have any problems with my shrimps. If used as directed it works. I made sure to do small water changes once a week while using algae killer. Ianhamm 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soothing Shrimp Posted September 4, 2016 Report Share Posted September 4, 2016 Well there ya go. Probably my fault then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vpier Posted September 5, 2016 Report Share Posted September 5, 2016 1 hour ago, Soothing Shrimp said: Well there ya go. Probably my fault then. Maybe it was something else and could have been coincidence or something you couldnt have foreseen? Was there a few deaths or was it a lot? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ianhamm Posted September 5, 2016 Report Share Posted September 5, 2016 51 minutes ago, Soothing Shrimp said: Well there ya go. Probably my fault then. is there a way to tag Chaz?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soothing Shrimp Posted September 5, 2016 Report Share Posted September 5, 2016 This was a year ago and was prob my fault. Perhaps I overdosed? I know I didn't do water changes because my bottle info said recommended, but not necessary. I only tried it on one tank though, and I know coincidences sometimes happen. I trust Vpier too, so if it worked for him it must be okay. I'm just gunshy now of it. Vpier 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElevateShrimp Posted September 7, 2016 Report Share Posted September 7, 2016 sorry you had some issues with your algae killer regimen I haven't had any issues at the concentration of the product that I sell, but when you start to overdose (at like double the recommended amount) I did get deaths. The dosing amount is right at the sweetspot for both yielding algae performance yet being shrimp safe accounting for minor measuring errors (overdosing) and the chemical accumulating over time (the math: it decays, but how quickly--so what is the concentration after 3 doses with no water changes). That being said I've used my product without water changes but I've found that this actually helps the algae survive so the recommended water changes are more for the algae killing part rather than the shrimp-safe-ness. It could very well be that there was a lot of algae in that tank and the water was getting hit hard with rotting organics bumping up the ammonia faster than your soil can turn it into ammonium if acidic tank or crashing your biofilter. No need to be gunshy Vpier and Ianhamm 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soothing Shrimp Posted September 7, 2016 Report Share Posted September 7, 2016 Could have been. My tank had pretty heavy hair algae. Vpier 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vpier Posted September 7, 2016 Report Share Posted September 7, 2016 On 9/4/2016 at 9:37 PM, Soothing Shrimp said: This was a year ago and was prob my fault. Perhaps I overdosed? I know I didn't do water changes because my bottle info said recommended, but not necessary. I only tried it on one tank though, and I know coincidences sometimes happen. I trust Vpier too, so if it worked for him it must be okay. I'm just gunshy now of it. The only reason I did water changes is due to your mishap you told me about a year ago. Soothing Shrimp 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soothing Shrimp Posted September 7, 2016 Report Share Posted September 7, 2016 LOL You were smarter than I, my friend. ;-) Ianhamm 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ianhamm Posted September 7, 2016 Report Share Posted September 7, 2016 just talked to Chaz about hydrogen peroxide for my blue green cyanobacteria. I'll report back on how it works. Just worried that a 3 gal might suffer worse. Soothing Shrimp 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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