UV sterilization thread

[StirCrazy]

UV seams to be a hot spot where you either love it or hate it.. so lets see why people like it or not and why. there are a lot of "OLD" thinking and such when it comes to UV some right some wrong but all of it needs to be weeded out so it becomes clear.

I'll start out. I for one am for UV as i believe it is more beneficial than harmfull.

it destroys free floating pathogens, protozoans and algae. all good in my books.

what about the pods swimming around you ask... sure it may zap a leg off one but due to there multi cellular make up and size in most cases they will be just injured.. guess what, fish will still eat them even if they were killed

some people say you need to get a huge sterilizer for a home aquarium.. i don't think that is necessarily true but you do need to match the pump up to the unit to give the proper velocity of flow through it.. if your flow is to fast it will not be as effective as the dwell time is reduced and if it is to slow of a flow you might be zapping more pods than you would normally.

now having said that I think they are just 1 more tool we can use to maintain good water quality if used correctly.

Steve