big question

[devildij]

hey guys in the place where i live we use oxigenated water H2O2 as a desinfectant i was just wondering if adding it to my normal tank water would raise the oxigen level

thanx

[scarter]

isent that the same principle as ozone?

[Randy Holmes-Farley]

It will raise oxygen levels, and might be useful in an emergency, but it is also a strong oxidizer and would potentially be irritating or worse to organisms. I wouldn't do it except in very unusual circumstances (like perhaps a long term power failure where you could not supply O2 any other way).

[PatrickJ]

I know someone who was using that to get rid of cynobacteria (red slime) and he used it in a SPS tank and it turned one of his prized corals brown, almost in an instant.

Be careful with that stuff.

[devildij]

wow thats scary

[jmkarcz]

Speeking of "in an emergency" I remember reading an article YEARS ago... where a guy in Canada with a Clownfish breeding system under went a snow storm caused powere outage... said he added hydrogen peroxide to his system to maintain oxygen levels, and that same article went further to state that it was actually safe to drink, however, you would need to put it in a bowl in the sun for a while to drive off the "extra O" to turn it back to water... though the taste would be marginal at best.

Any thoughts?

J

[Randy Holmes-Farley]

To drink the seawater?

[jmkarcz]

No, to add peroxide to the see water to increase oxygen, or to leave peroxide in the sun to drink as water... and no, I don't plan on trying the later, but I always have some peroxide in the house, though I aprehinsive about adding anything to the tank that does not have a reef label.

Jason

[Randy Holmes-Farley]

Hydrogen peroxide in fresh water will break down and eventually leave no particularly toxic residue.