CREATING THE ULTIMATE FILTRATION AND EVOLVING WITH YOUR FISH!!!!!!
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UV lights...I'm one of the non-believers. For aquariums at least. We do have one on our koi pond though. I'd never run a koi pond without one since a pond is inherently a much dirtier environment than an aquarium. Aquariums are sterile in comparison to a pond due to the big constant water changes and glass cleaning we do. That's not something you do on an outdoor pond. For those reasons I never have and probably never will use a UV on an aquarium.
Exception: I did use a small UV once on a newly setup planted tank that was suffering from a green water algae bloom, but that was only for a few days.
IMO uv are great but what you guys think about of the ozonizers? Its old technology but still in the hobby!?
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I highly doubt this little unit does much but Who knows keep us updated !!!This thread was started for people who buy fish as fry and end up with 24 inch plus fish and 500 pluss gallon fish but the more i think about it what does it matter you have guppies or paima!!! it is all the same a fish bowl or a 10000 gallon tank or pond!!!!View attachment 838868
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theres the unit. so it works a bit different to what I was told. I really wonder if it works
You could not be more Wrong Jose and you made my point for me !!!!! Now if you had an Algue Bloom in a small tank and had to hook up a UV for a couple of days to take care of the Bloom ?????Let's take that to another Level Let's say you have a 750 gallon tank with let's say 10,000 dollers of stock i just picked a number but you get the Idea But instead of an Algae Bloom It's very hot middle of summer you buy an addition to your tank and it cost let's say 2K you Quarintine this fish for a month or so you think you Have the fish treated you plop him in your 750 your not running a Uv and like i say it's nice and hot and WHaMMMMMMMO!!!!!!! Your tank that you thought was sterile is a Box with no Escape You Have a Bacteria blo0om of some of the Nastiest stuff you ever laid yours Eyes on your new fish seems unefected Guess what he's used to this Bacteria and Jose you slowly watch every fish in your tank Die !!!!! The only one left standing is the new fish and your stomach is just sick beyond belief all you can do is maybe start over maybe give the Hobby up it was just to much torment for ya
Your Dead wrong Egon City municipal's have Giant UV's on the water supplies and it is not for nothing Now i am not saying you have to in all in the personal choices you make I have personally seen the cenario i just described it might be years or never but it just happens to the Best of them the more fish ya have the more chance there is Just something to think about ...
With floor to ceiling windows and three large skylights in our living room, our tank quickly developed a green water problem. UV quickly took care of it. I noticed how fast our fish healed when scraped or cut. UV is peace of mind for us now.
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How do you guys feel about carbon filter for treating wc water vs using a chem like prime with 24 hr to degas and temp regulate prior to adding to the aquarium.
I am running drip cinarios thru my head but I don't know if I feel comfortable with the filtered tap water. I live on long island, no resevore, and after rain my water sometimes looks slightly cloudy, and you can smell the chlorine like its a pool this makes me nervous to use drip cause on holding container I can see the quality prior to adding to the tank, if I notice anything unsatisfactory I will wait till conditions are better.
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I am running drip cinarios thru my head but I don't know if I feel comfortable with the filtered tap water. I live on long island, no resevore, and after rain my water sometimes looks slightly cloudy, and you can smell the chlorine like its a pool this makes me nervous to use drip cause on holding container I can see the quality prior to adding to the tank, if I notice anything unsatisfactory I will wait till conditions are better.
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Well you're wrong about us being wrong LOL. It's a matter of opinion and personal preference, not fact. A UV is an optional item, and not a requirement like let's say a heater or a filter. Those are requirements, not options.
I use catalytic granular activated carbon in my filters to treat tapwater for chlorine/chloramines. Granted my city doesn't add chloramines, but the right type of carbon will work for chloramines. And several people use these types of filters for water changers and drip systems. Another member said that he's heard it doesn't work as well for chloramines, but I have no experience. If you're worried, pick up a chlorine/chloramines test kit from thefilterguys and see what the output is. If the water turns pink that means the carbon isn't working for you and you'll need to go the chemical route.
For a water changer, this typically involves using an automated dosing pump like the Chemilizer that pulls in Prime and mixes it with tapwater, then feeds it straight to the tank. This is how Li/Neoprodigy set up his water changer.
