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Old 04-30-2011, 05:07 PM
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Originally Posted by dsaundry View Post
Tank is a 140g, uv is plumbed into sump. Pump is a mag12. eventually going to an eheim1262.
A properly run UV should be plumbed inline with your return pump so that the water is treated in its entirety to be as effective as possible, but a 36w UV wouldn't be nearly intense enough to have 1000-1100 gph run through it and still provide protection from Ich. This is the trouble with UV...it would add too much heat to your tank to use a properly-sized UV plumbed properly into the tank. Kind of lose, lose on this one.
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