Re: uv sterilizer
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250G
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to serve what purpose?
personally, I through mine in the garbage years ago, I would have felt bad selling it to someone thinking it would solve a problem for them, but that's me
personally, I through mine in the garbage years ago, I would have felt bad selling it to someone thinking it would solve a problem for them, but that's me
Dog boy Dave
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I have used ozone to eradicate an ich out break in an sps system but UV is limited due to contact time and volume in most systems. It might be effective to kill water born pathogens if you can increase volume treated and maintain adequate contact time over the lense but for an sps only tank, the only effects on your water column that i can imagine are negative. IE most living things in your water column are good for SPS.
M Woodhill
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i do
guess it's kinda helpful
guess it's kinda helpful
Neoferdina
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If you ever plan to run a bacteria driven system you definitely don't want a UV. Otherwise they can be somewhat helpful at killing pathogens and algal spores. Ozone would serve to the same effect much more efficiently.
lucidheights
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i had a really bad diatom bloom that was eradicated within 48hrs of installing a large UV sterilizer. I don't know if its helpful for much else, but i'm definitely a believer now.
M Woodhill
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presumably those bacteria live on live rocks so they stay there and won't be hurt as long as they stay on rocks rather than float in the current flowin thru the sterilizer
Every one say UV wont work well thay do, flow is the key with UV . If you supply the right amount of flow throw your UV it will kill algie and bacteria . Not all bacteria but the very bad bacteria that causes cyno and bacteria problems in tank that can be cause just by you putting your hands in the tank. A UV to me is very important in a reef tank.
Hookup
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I have one...
put it online simply cause I had it and had a PBT so why not
it stays on-line but imo, servers very little purpose at this point
I'm not sure of any issues with running zeolith or ultralith systems with UV, or Ozone... but i haven't run ultralith in a while myself (since i broke my reactor
) so I honestly dont remember the do's and don'ts of ultralith.
put it online simply cause I had it and had a PBT so why not
it stays on-line but imo, servers very little purpose at this point
I'm not sure of any issues with running zeolith or ultralith systems with UV, or Ozone... but i haven't run ultralith in a while myself (since i broke my reactor
) so I honestly dont remember the do's and don'ts of ultralith.
250G
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karsseboom
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They reall make your tank look better though and the water is a lot more clear.
250G
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makes sense, and I agree the impact is likely minimal. I really add these comments for those who think this device will solve problems, and UV won't, it will perhaps help manage a problem. I got burned with the "you should add a UV sterilizer" 10 years ago.
I will bet my entire tank on this statement being incorrect. Take 64Ivy's system - you unplug the UV or the bulb burns out, you would never know it was not working, the water would look perfect as it always does.
I will bet my entire tank on this statement being incorrect. Take 64Ivy's system - you unplug the UV or the bulb burns out, you would never know it was not working, the water would look perfect as it always does.
250G
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i hear ha about old habits....that being said my new system will sport LEDs and a bubble king........replacing the halides and beckett was no easy decision.
I agree that if it broke you probably would not know, but I guess that also shows that is does no (or manageble) harm...
