whats a good reliable uv sterilizer?

[pogiboy67]

OK my blu hippo tang is in the early stages of ICH... I plan on taking him out of main tank to treatment tank. So i think its time to by a uv sterilizer. WHAT brand do you guys recommend?

 

[xenon]

http://www.pentairaquatics.com/products/aquarium_products.html

 

[pogiboy67]

what do you guys think of the plug in light bulb ones? like this aqua ultraviolet one

 

[fingersdlp]

I like Emperor Aquatics but they are not cheap.

On a side note I do not think a UV helps that much with ich. If you massively oversize it then it would but then you would have a heat problem. Ich is either on the fish or in the substrate/rock and does not spend a lot of time (comparitively) in the water column and the UV can only kill what passes though it and then only if you have the flow rate slow enough to give it a meaningfull dose. Slow flow = not so much water = not so much ich killed.

That said I have UV as it helps with water clarity (ozone helps even more) and bacterial issues and is some benefit for ich or other swimming parasites and I am not trying to talk you out of it.

Also be carefull not to heat the water up too much as it can easilyl add a couple of degrees depending on the size and flow.