UV Sterilizer recommendation

[MrVociferous]

Hello all...I'm looking to get a UV sterilizer and wanted to know what kind/size people recommend. I have a 65g tank with a 20g sump. Any help would be appreciated.

 

[downhillbiker]

i use the 36w odyssea uv sterilizer on my tank and love it. odyssea has a bad rap, but this one has been working well for about a year. i picked it up from aquatraders. cheap and reliable. its a strait tube design, but so are all of the super expensive ones. it is long and a fairly good diameter and high wattage uv, so still has a high kill rate. its on a 72 gallon tank.

 

[Peter Eichler]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12514124#post12514124 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by downhillbiker
i use the 36w odyssea uv sterilizer on my tank and love it. odyssea has a bad rap, but this one has been working well for about a year. i picked it up from aquatraders. cheap and reliable. its a strait tube design, but so are all of the super expensive ones. it is long and a fairly good diameter and high wattage uv, so still has a high kill rate. its on a 72 gallon tank.

How do you know it's working well?

Mr V, I don't really see a whole lot of benefit from UV sterlizers and feel they're a waste of money unless you're trying to do something about a bacterial or algae bloom in the water. However, even those usually run their course on their own.

 

[snorvich]

I generally agree with Peter, I see little to no value in UV. The exception to that is if you share water between two systems; in that case, if set up properly, it can keep some disease from spreading between systems. It will not do much if anything for a single system.

 

[downhillbiker]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12514538#post12514538 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Peter Eichler
How do you know it's working well?

Mr V, I don't really see a whole lot of benefit from UV sterlizers and feel they're a waste of money unless you're trying to do something about a bacterial or algae bloom in the water. However, even those usually run their course on their own.

i was simply stating that it isn't broken and operates as it should. i do not know the actual benifits of uv, but have used it for quite a while. none of my fish have disease, and they may not even if i didnt have the uv. i had an ich outbreak and used it on the display and qt the fish and have kept it on there ever since.

 

[vanmo92]

I sure do like the Coralife turbo twist sterilizers, they seem pretty good.

 

[captain639]

I use UV and compared to tanks I have had before, I can tell a difference. Clearer water, and I have had no problem with hair algae. Not sure if it is due to the UV, but I don't think it will hurt.

 

[captain639]

vanmo92, seriously, you are the first person I have ever heard of that has said they liked windows vista. Funny!

 

[downhillbiker]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=12515476#post12515476 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by captain639
vanmo92, seriously, you are the first person I have ever heard of that has said they liked windows vista. Funny!

off topic here. i LOVE windows vista and use the 64 bit version on my custom gaming PC. i love the DX10 graphics and power of vista. I use 64 bit because i run 8GB of 800mhz DDR2 ram.

now back to topic, dont see why uv would hurt other than added electric bill.