I came across this on google. There was a post about using Hydrogen Peroxide for Salt Water Fish Diseases. The guy was using 5 ml of 6% solution twice a day to treat Ich and velvet. I believe he had a 50 gallon tank. I have a 90 Gallon. So with a simple calculation I used 20 ml of 3% solution. So the problem I had was no matter what fish store I went to, within a week the fish were flash swimming and developing white spots and eventually died in my isolation tank. I tried hypo salinity, fresh water dips can copper. Instead I now treat my 30 gallon isolation tank twice a day with 5 to 10 ml of 3% solution of Hydrogen Peroxide. I stop the pump and let it sit for 30 minutes in the morning and at night. After 14 days I then transfer the fish to my display 90 gallon tank and I treat that with 20 to 25 ml of Hydrogen Peroxide. I also turn off my main pump but leave on my small pumps in the aquarium. I also do this twice a day for another 14 days. While it is sitting for the half hour I usually mix up the sand to free any Ich that might be attached to sand particles.
Some cautions are noteworthy. Hydrogen Peroxide is like Bleach as it is an oxidizer. It does not discriminate what biological material that it destroys. So while it might attack the Ich it also kills your good bacterial filter. The only difference is that when Hydrogen Peroxide breaks down it results in water and a single oxygen. I have not dosed more than 25 ml so I don't know what the effects are with larger doses. I also have leathers and polyp corals in my display tank and they don't seem to be affected at these dosage levels.
I have been doing this for quite some time without negative affects or fish deaths like I used to get without treatments.
Has anyone else tried this?
Some cautions are noteworthy. Hydrogen Peroxide is like Bleach as it is an oxidizer. It does not discriminate what biological material that it destroys. So while it might attack the Ich it also kills your good bacterial filter. The only difference is that when Hydrogen Peroxide breaks down it results in water and a single oxygen. I have not dosed more than 25 ml so I don't know what the effects are with larger doses. I also have leathers and polyp corals in my display tank and they don't seem to be affected at these dosage levels.
I have been doing this for quite some time without negative affects or fish deaths like I used to get without treatments.
Has anyone else tried this?
