UV Steralizer question

vkuroczka

vkuroczka

Member
Quick question regarding UV steralizer and adding live rock
I currently lost my tank to ich
suprisingly we had one survivor
my flamehawk fish. Well, I recently purchased a Coralife turbotwist 9w uv steralizer, and had read somewhere that it isn't a good idea to add live rock into a tank with a uv steralizer because it will kill off the little "good" guys that come with the rock
So what should I do ?
I really wanted to add live rock to the tank but now is that a bad idea? I've had this tank established for about 6 years and never had a death
until recently with the ich outbreak
. My stats: 80 gal saltwater, one flamehawkfish, no live coral or rock, broken coral for sea bottom, fluval 404 filter,seaclone skimmer. (The algea is out of control!) I haven't installed the UV steralizer yet.
 
al mc

al mc

Active Member
If this is to be a fish only tank then a UV light would be of no harm and possibly a lot of benefit.
If a reef tank it becomes open to debate: UV light will 'sterilize' good and bad things.
Ich: You probably still have it in your tank. New fish exposed to it may come down with symptoms/disease.
 
acrylic51

acrylic51

Active Member
To rid the tank of ich keep it fish free for at least 6 weeks.....As far as the UV controlling the ich that is debatable and a UV shouldn't be used as a substitute for quaranting new additions......
As far as UV being bad for a reef!!!?????
Very debateable IMO.....For the UV to be effective the "bad" has to be free floating in the water column for it to be killed or zap or altered by the UV with that being said your LR per say isn't free floating and you might loose some pods, but nothing major in my opinion....Remember when setting up your UV to run the correct flow through the unit or it's useless as well.
 
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