Making H2O2 at Home - A Guide for Aquarists

[wouternet]

Hello, this is my first post and i wanted to ask the following:

How can you make H2O2 (hydrogenperoxide) yourself, because if saw in the store the other day a aquarium oxigizer (so your fish don't sufficate) wtch uses H2O2 in a percentage of 4.9%, but the stuff costs 5 bucks a bottle and only lasts a week or 3, so can i make my own?

Thanks, wouternet

 

[Borek]

so can i make my own?

I doubt you will be able to do it cheaper.

This is not a physics question.

And please use spellchecker.

 

[Equate]

(so your fish don't sufficate)

I always wondered how all the fish in the world's oceans, lakes, and rivers thrived to this day without oxygenizers and bubble thingies... ;-)

Fact is, as long as the surface of the water is agitated ("wave" action) oxygen will enter it. You don't need any H2O2 gadgets and gizmos.

 

[philnow]

And how agitated do you suppose the surface of the water in a fish tank is?

 

[Borek]

And how agitated do you suppose the surface of the water in a fish tank is?

Obviously enough.

I am not using any artificial additives and in my tank fish doesn't have any problems. There is some motion of the water due to the filter pump, but even if I switch it off for few days nothing wrong happens.

 

[chemisttree]

Obviously enough.

I am not using any artificial additives and in my tank fish doesn't have any problems. There is some motion of the water due to the filter pump, but even if I switch it off for few days nothing wrong happens.

I did the same thing when I was training my fish to lie motionless, upside-down while holding their breath...

Don't need no stinkin' oxygen!

 

[berkeman]

I did the same thing when I was training my fish to lie motionless, upside-down while holding their breath...

Don't need no stinkin' oxygen!

So I actually had trained my fish? And didn't need to flush them. Oh no!

Hello, this is my first post and i wanted to ask the following:

How can you make H2O2 (hydrogenperoxide) yourself, because if saw in the store the other day a aquarium oxigizer (so your fish don't sufficate) wtch uses H2O2 in a percentage of 4.9%, but the stuff costs 5 bucks a bottle and only lasts a week or 3, so can i make my own?

Thanks, wouternet

Sounds like a gimmick. Just use the air bubble pump. Cheap and has worked forever. Well, except in the case of my trained fish...

 

[Lok]

H2O2 is a bit energetic. I don't think that O2 ends up in water that way. It is mainly dissolved.

H2O2 might be toxic. So no extra training necessary.

 

[lightarrow]

I did the same thing when I was training my fish to lie motionless, upside-down while holding their breath...

Don't need no stinkin' oxygen!

Very funny!

 

[chemisttree]

Hello, this is my first post and i wanted to ask the following:

How can you make H2O2 (hydrogenperoxide) yourself, because if saw in the store the other day a aquarium oxigizer (so your fish don't sufficate) wtch uses H2O2 in a percentage of 4.9%, but the stuff costs 5 bucks a bottle and only lasts a week or 3, so can i make my own?

Thanks, wouternet

In the aquarium, H2O2 is used to kill algae and bacteria. It has been shown to be http://www.cababstractsplus.org/abstracts/Abstract.aspx?AcNo=20013101246", for example. It is likely that the peroxide rapidly reacts with any ammonia or amines present and forms reactive chloramines within a short time of the dosage. Chloramines, like Chloramine-T, have also been used as a treatment for various parasite and bacterial infections in fish, so it makes sense that a chemical that makes a chloramine in situ would be effective as well.

It is NOT used to oxygenate water... but if used in high enough concentrations, it is useful as a training aid when training fish to hang upside down, motionless while holding their breath.

 

[mgb_phys]

In the aquarium, H2O2 is used to kill algae and bacteria.

And presumably to make blond goldfish

 

[chemisttree]

One fish, two fish, blondfish, pondfish...