can i use excel to kill things besides algae?

[ordloh]

Starting up a new aquarium and i don't have space for a quarantine tank in my room, putting my cleaning crew and dither fish straight into the aquarium. Before i put in any main fish (maybe discus and expensive catfish) I'd like to disinfect the aquarium but i'm not to keen on anything containing malachite green. Will a hearty dose of excel do the job? I think the tetras might have brought in some ich and maybe some other stuff, quite a few have been dying.

[Tom Barr]

Try H2O2, cheaper than Excel.

Regards,
Tom Barr

[Mr Fishies]

A bit of thread-jack but this is semi-related to my ongoing unsuccessful search...

Tom, I seem to recall a post where you mentioned using Excel as a safe easily accessible fungicide in DIY dry mixed trace ferts instead of Hcl. I was looking for the post to get the recommended Excel:X ml ratio. Can you (or anyone who knows) point to the post or use this method and share the ratio?

[nipat]

http://www.barrreport.com/general-pl...html#post41506

(20 ml per 1 litre)

[Mr Fishies]

http://www.barrreport.com/general-pl...html#post41506

(20 ml per 1 litre)

TYVM! I thought it was recent but there's so many good posts with tangential info like this to bookmark them all...and not enough skull storage to retain it all.

[Tom Barr]

Excel /Easy Carbo are both generla biocides. So is H2O2.

Ones a lot cheaper and easier to locate.

Regards,
Tom Barr

[Mr Fishies]

Excel /Easy Carbo are both generla biocides. So is H2O2.

I hadn't though of H2O2, which I already have on hand, does that mean I could just add some H2O2 to my mixes?