Re: UV Sterlizer

Interesting...avoid the white kind eh ?
Buy RowaPhos, Phosban or Salifert ?
Thanks for the info

"Boomer" <wcwing@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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These are not good products for reef tank as they are activated alumina,
which releases
Aluminum which is toxic and effects some corals. If one is looking for a
phos remover you
are better off with ferric oxide hydroxides, which is better, more
effective and has no
side effects like alumina

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"TheRock" <none@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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: Absolutely !
: Seachem PhosGuard
: Kent Power Phos Max
:
: UV as far as I know does nothing for Cyano problems.
: Go here and learn how to control Cyanobacteria/Blue green algae.
: http://www.wetwebmedia.com/bluegralgae.htm
:
: Cyano control is a lesson in it's own.
: It's taken me 3 years to understand and I still get a touch of it every
now
: and then.
:
: Damn 2 million year old bacteria !
:
:
:
:
: "buff82driver" <buff82driver@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
: news:1144096258.905943.157320@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
: > Yeah but I think my problem is phosphates in my tap water that I use
to
: > top-off/water change. I have not tested it...maybe a RO unit would be
: > the way to go but the fish seem fine with the cyano just as long as I
: > keep it from covering the live rock. If the phospahtes don't bother
the
: > fish and UV would do the trick I was thinking that would be a more
: > pratical way to go. I don't get enough rain here to collect and using
: > bottled water would be very expensive. Isn't there a product you can
: > put in your sump that absorbs phosphates? Is it any good?
: >
: > Pszemol wrote:
: >> "buff82driver" <buff82driver@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
: >> news:1144086493.656648.182630@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
: >> > But it would also help out with the cyanobacteria would it not
after I
: >> > get it cleaned out by rinising it off my live rock and cleaning off
the
: >> > glass and vacumming the gravel witht the 350? It has a micron
filter so
: >> > you can do a really good job w/out lossing water to a bunch of
buckets.
: >>
: >> Jeff,
: >> your cyano outbreak means simply your system is OUT OF BALANCE.
: >>
: >> Even if the UV Lamp will deal with the symptom, it will not cure
: >> the cause of the problem. The cause of the outbreak is lack of proper
: >> nutrients export.
: >>
: >> Remember, in a fish tank, as in any other closed system, what you
: >> put there, stays there, untill you remove it...
: >>
: >> You put fish food there and it will accumulate in a form of nitrates
: >> and phosphates until it reaches the alarming levels and tank will
crash
: >> due to the cyano outbreak or massive green hair algae infestation.
: >> Correctly designed system has proper ways for nutrients export.
: >>
: >> Only one of many methods is the partial water change you mentioned.
: >> Others include skimming, growing algae in a separate container
: >> (algae scrubber), keeping a population of grazers in your tank
: >> (snails, urchins, tangs etc) which acumulate these nutrients and
: >> build their bodies out of them removing them from water column.
: >> (nutrients cause algae blooms but grazers remove algae, etc)
: >> If you cannot keep up with nutrients export doing massive and often
: >> water changes this means that your tank is heavily overstocked
: >> and the UL Lamp will not help you in this problem.
: >>
: >> As TheRock suggested before, if you do not have a skimmer
: >> than you would spend your money wiser buying one instead of
: >> the UV lamp.
: >
:
:




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