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When you treat a whole tank this way, skimmer on or off?
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Leave the skimmer on. Also, I have found it useful to put the HP in a turkey baster and squirt the algae directly with the power heads off for a few minutes. This kills it in minutes in that area and then I move on to other areas the next day that have algae. You'll know you got it if you see the algae bubbling. I have squirted the bases of acros and the polyp didn't even retract and it showed no signs of stress. They have looked much happier after because the algae isn't bothering them any more
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Awesome technique.
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Do you go above the 1 ml to 10 gal ratio when doing a spot treatment like this?
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I have read up on this a lot in the last few weeks.  I initially read about this method as a cure for the thin film of algae that forms on some Zoas and will smother and kill them.  I haven't tried it on any of my zoa yet.  I thought I would first try it on a coral that was more infested.  I used 3% HP from Walmart.  There are different strengths of it.  Several people I read about used the 7% but I didn't want to start that strong.  
 
I did a 50/50 HP to tank water dip on a flower pot that was covered with hair algae and receding/dying back.  After the dip I used an old soft tooth brush to remove the algae.  Came off easy and hasn't returned.  The flower pot is still in poor health and hasn't shown any improvement but the algae is gone and hasn't returned....
 
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Originally posted by Lewy Lewy wrote:

Do you go above the 1 ml to 10 gal ratio when doing a spot treatment like this?


When spot treating in the DT I have used as much as 1.5 ml/ 10g. It seems to effect the spots with concentrated contact much more that the tank as a whole in my experience.
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Sounds like a GREAT technique to me too.  I am going to try this tonight!
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yep turns it white quick and seems to just disappear. thanks!!!
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Originally posted by Lewy Lewy wrote:

yep turns it white quick and seems to just disappear. thanks!!!


When it turns white it makes me smile and causes an evil laugh to rise from inside me

I'm happy that it's working for you guys. I'm to the point where I never dose the sump, only small places where it grows back every once in awhile. HP has helped stop many headaches and helped allow corals to grow dino free I love this stuff and it's soooo cost effective!!!
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