UV sterilizer

Giants13 · 11/15/2015, 11:24 AM

+1 for the UV, i had a cloudy tank hooked up the uv and cleared it within 24 hours, my wife came home to a crystal clear tank

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Art13 · 11/15/2015, 11:50 AM

I've had this issue before where it stayed cloudy for a month, no idea why, but the UV did work, i've since taken it off my tank, it's been about a year and no more cloud. For whatever reason it happened to both of my tanks when they were fairly new.

cougareyes · 11/15/2015, 12:50 PM

I was skeptical of uv sterilizers but got so frustrated I decided to try one. Its a new 210g that I cycled with ammonia at 2ppm. So I established a pretty good bacterial bed then added 2 fish, 2 weeks later I added 2 more fish. Probably due to my overfeeding I got a horrendous bacterial bloom mixed with a brown algae bloom. 1st pic is what the tank looked like, 2nd pic is 24 hours later; the next day the water was crystal clear.

11/15/2015, 11:24 AM	#1
Giants13 Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2015 Posts: 151	UV sterilizer +1 for the UV, i had a cloudy tank hooked up the uv and cleared it within 24 hours, my wife came home to a crystal clear tank .

11/15/2015, 11:50 AM	#2
Art13 Registered Member Join Date: Sep 2013 Location: South Jersey Posts: 1,444	I've had this issue before where it stayed cloudy for a month, no idea why, but the UV did work, i've since taken it off my tank, it's been about a year and no more cloud. For whatever reason it happened to both of my tanks when they were fairly new.