peety Posted July 8, 2003 Report Share Posted July 8, 2003 Just got a syringe from my vet and squirted the buggers with hydrogen peroxide at 6%. Poke them with the needle until foam up and die. I also accidentily got some on a snail. I put it under the pump immediately and it came right within a minute or two. The nice thing with the h202 is that you can put the rocks back in the water immediately since it converts to water and oxygen. I wiped out all the visible ones and will be scanning for any little ones that start up, but i got rid of about 50 in an hour and all rocks spent less than 2 minutes out of the water. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shilo Posted July 8, 2003 Report Share Posted July 8, 2003 It works for Blue-Green Algae as well. Although it won't cure your tank (you need to change your water parameters to cure it), zapping with hydrogen peroxide is a good way of getting revenge You can also use it on real algae instead of bleach. I just use some straight Jif Oxy-Gel (from the supermarket) as the hydrogen peroxide source. Doesn't harm the tank at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peety Posted July 9, 2003 Author Report Share Posted July 9, 2003 I was surprised... I could kill a bad anenome literally 3-4 mm's away from a nice one if i was careful, and you could see it sizzling away without any harm to the others. I tried to kill the buggers in the past but this was sooo easy.... PS. Have you seen this site http://www.garf.org/ ? They promote using concrete instead of live rock. I made some two and a half weeks ago and put it in my tank (i should have waited another week but was on a roll). It looks real good. I don't know how long it takes to get the coralline going but the fish love it. I made four tables, 3 caves and 2 fake corals. I need more yet but I'm really surprised how real it can look. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pies Posted July 9, 2003 Report Share Posted July 9, 2003 I am using Kalkwasser to kill the Aipstasia. My tank is massive though, so pulling out 120KG of rock is not going to happen! I have to do it all 'wet'. GARF. I don't like the fake corals (just get real ones!) but the concrete rock is awesome. Also to cycle it, ever though about putting it in the ocean for a few weeks? Thats what they do in California now for 'live rock'. They make wicked rock just like the garf article, put it in the ocean, come back 2 months later, it has some corline on it, and some other life too! It will take a while for it to go purple, I have white rock in my tank thats been there for over 3 months, and its still white (well brown with some purple spots on it). Its all about patience though Because I have taken my time with the tank, its starting to look good now, lots of corline, little algae (except the bubble stuff I am getting a little worried about). Corline has covered my cleaning magnet, and I have millions and million of mysid shrimp breeding, hundreds of little cricked copods of amphods or whatever the hell.... But yes, I still have some aipstasia... Copper Band butterfly is looking appealing... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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