Nano+ Water Sterilizer - My new toy!

[The Masked Shadow]

This is a new toy I picked up a few days ago. It is called the Nano+ Water Sterilizer.

I got this because the Black Beard Algae, CITA Cyanobacteria, and Diatoms were getting insanely out of hand. There’re few ways to get rid of BBA and CITA Cyano. Manual scrubbings is one. But they will continuously come back. Siamese Algae Eaters is another way, but you would need to get a lot of them to make a dent. Another way is Rid-x, which is a chemical people use for septic tanks to kill algae. But that can take months. So, I got this. My lfs has a 180g show tank which was infested with algae. Once they put the water sterilizer in the tank, the algae will not grow. The algae *will not grow*, not be killed by it. From what I understand, it releases bubbles a few times every five minutes. I guess it calculates the oxygen and oxidizes the tank at the right amount where the algae will not grow (if I’m wrong please correct me.

Anyway, this will be a thread following the progress of the Nano+ Water Sterilizer and my tank.

The tank is 55g, no plants besides some kind of Azolla on top. It is stocked with 1 Delhezi Bichir.

These are the bubbles it creates - practically microscopic.





The tank a week ago.

 

[Zues1725]

wow thats smart how much that thing cost

 

[FJB]

Curious about your conclusions after the whole experience. Generally not a believer of new gizmos for sale.

 

[Deadeye]

I’m willing to see what happens.
I agree mechanical never fully substitutes natural eradication, but I can’t wait to see how it works for you! With the algaes you have, it ain’t easy to make them disappear without a little help.

 

[The Masked Shadow]

Curious about your conclusions after the whole experience. Generally not a believer of new gizmos for sale.

I’m willing to see what happens.
I agree mechanical never fully substitutes natural eradication, but I can’t wait to see how it works for you! With the algaes you have, it ain’t easy to make them disappear without a little help.

There is a return policy for 2 months. It is supposed to work really quickly. The algae in my tank grows at an incredible speed. Weekly water changes end up into 2 hour scrubs, and so far it’s keeping the algae at bay. I did a water change on Sunday, and the algae usually starts to grow back around today. Let’s see how this works out.

 

[Deadeye]

While you’re at it, I’d get a magnetic algae scraper. Makes getting algae off the glass go from an hour to 5 minutes, just run it across a few times and it brushes it off. It will probably make it easier to kill that way.

 

[The Masked Shadow]

While you’re at it, I’d get a magnetic algae scraper. Makes getting algae off the glass go from an hour to 5 minutes, just run it across a few times and it brushes it off. It will probably make it easier to kill that way.

BBA grows on the sand - gravel vac, CITA grows on the back wall, which is hard to get with an algae scraper. I use the razor-blade-on-a-stick lookin thing. The BBA clogs the intake tube and sponge filter, Also inhabits the filter itself. Diatoms grow everywhere. On the sand, the heater, everywhere. It’s quite some work to get that crap out!

 

[Deadeye]

BBA grows on the sand - gravel vac, CITA grows on the back wall, which is hard to get with an algae scraper. I use the razor-blade-on-a-stick lookin thing. The BBA clogs the intake tube and sponge filter, Also inhabits the filter itself. Diatoms grow everywhere. On the sand, the heater, everywhere. It’s quite some work to get that crap out!

BBA on the sand?! Ouch…
Cyano is usually supposed to be easy to get off.
And diatoms are just diatoms…

 

[Zanzag]

Cyano is usually a nutrient/chemistry issue. Usually uneaten food in a tank.

 

[Rocksor]

One thing about diatoms is that San Diego water is filtered with silica sand prior to the addition of chemicals. It's a fruitless battle with tanks that receive indirect sunlight in San Diego.