havent been on for a while... lol 3 days...

[ScullCraca]

Yes his set up is fairly new. But BA is on objects like rocks glass, decor, filter parts... It creeps as well as gets spread by the water. A UV will help slow it from spreading, but a UV can't stop BA. Eventually it should just go away. You can wipe it off and like I said, it should have a harder time coming back each time with a UV. I have had GREAT luck with BA (and GA) by using semaprochilodus species (fei fengs) They seriously have always obliterated any algae stuck to stuff. I've never had any luck with plecos helping algae.

Also, the effectiveness of your UV is determined by the water flow through it, it's design and the intensity of the bulb. I have a cheap jebo 36w that can only be a UV "STERILIZER" if I run it at 150 or so gph. While my 9w TWIST (the twist helps to maximize exposure to the UV) coralife can sterilize at 350 or so. If you run either faster than that, then they are no longer sterilizers and they become clarifiers. It becomes a clarifier since the water is running by too quickly to get enough exposure to kill as much as it could if the water was moving..

The other thing of course with BA is that the rocks and objects that the algae is on doesn't run through the piece of equiptment.

I have just set my 150g up it is just under a month by one week. Last week was the last I have seen of the BA it just disapered. So I don't know what to tell you. My UV isn't even hooked up yet. Looking for a lamp still. I fiugred my has gone because of the W/C. I currently am doing 2x a week at about 50%.

 

[Danh]

I did say in the first paragraph "it should just go away" meaning even without a UV at all. My point was that UV's don't help BA that much.

 

[bOOsteN aUdI]

so it is better to not run a uv?

 

[Danh]

I run them. They help kill other harmful things than algae. That is just normally the most visible thing that they do. If you're doing it just for your BA, I would consider it a slight waste of electricity, but it's still beneficial.

 

[bOOsteN aUdI]

yup.. i wipe it away and it just comes back, on the glass, on the rocks, on the filter parts. i keep up with my water changes.. i do large ones every week and i clean my filter every couple. its starting to get worse and i just want it to go away.. i never had this problem before with any of my fish tanks. i am starting to think the lights are possibly too bright

 

[Danh]

I have 2 4' double strips in my 450g. The BA comes under the normal house lights. The 1000k bulbs don't seem to cause it in my case. It happens often with newer tanks (mine is 8 months old though) and it often goes away by itself.

 

[mjuniorc]

well guys i am certainly impressed after spending almost 300$.....
before my water was amber with particles floatin around possibly from fish waste and driftwood... but now i got a much cleaner enviroment for my pea's.... hey look alot more healthier and active....

 

[bOOsteN aUdI]

lol bull**** let me see some pics! prefer the pics of the orino!

 

[Danh]

A UV wouldn't do anything for fish waste or if your water was amber from your driftwood, but that's not to say it's not a cleaner environment, or that you water isn't clearer.

 

[mjuniorc]

lol bull**** let me see some pics! prefer the pics of the orino!

here you go BRADDA BOOST.... from before with no UV, and now with the UV...
also you wanted some updates on my orino's huh... ill show you 1 of them as a teaser... lol...