I can't agree more...

now I paid less than $100 us at drsfostersmith.com, and got the turbo twist
model.

after having too many fish deaths (they got injured...then they got sick)
over the years I decided to give the uv a try, and am I amazed! no fish
deaths for almost a year (since I've been using it). I also think the water
looks clearer, but may be my imaginiation.. one thing is for sure, this
makes your water clean!!!

they say it is important because in nature, the sun shoots out uvb to clean
the water, but in your aquarium you are not using that wavelength so much
unless you get the uv sterilizer.

Bob

"Damaclese" wrote in message
...
it is a possibility but when the tank was established the water i used at
the time err the local water was ripe for aggressive alge growth. So the
alge was allways there and i do have a planted tank with my africans, yes
brave i know but most plants roots run pretty deep, so i do need the
lights
, and by grow lights i meant lights that help aquarium plants grow i dont
know what they are specifically but like i said as soon as i started to
use
the uv sterilizer ive had better water quality the ever before.
"T" wrote in message
nk.net...
Per chance... Might it have been the grow lights that helped the Algae
bloom to begin with???? Grow light = growth.... Maybe not what we want
to
grow...

Timmer...



"Damaclese" wrote in message
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well its been a few days now and my ultra viol;et sterilizer is
working
great cleaned up the water fogging problem i had wioth alge it cost me
close
to 400$ canadian for a double helix modle the biggest the store had in
stock
but when faced with redoing a tank and repopulating its worth the
cost.
just
a tip when adding new hardware to your tank make sure you locate a
plentiful
source of hose addapters 1/2 to 5/8 and 5/8 to 3/4 and so on

"Damaclese" wrote in message
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having a huge and growing free floating alge problem so im looking
at
a
uv
sterilizer for my solution has anyone else used these costly items?
im
going
to use one becuase i had this hit my tank before while i was on
vacation
and
it wipped out my tank except a pleco so iwrote that off as a 300$
fish
loss
not to mention 2 years of raising the fish so i am pretty warry
water
changes and filter changes dont work
its a 155 gallon bowfront runing grow lights 12 hours a day