Another satisfied Sand Bed UV Sweeper customer

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Sorry I meant the uv. Did you ever have it come close to coral and see ill effects? I have a lot of Dino’s in hard to reach spots right next to coral so unsure if I should just skip those areas for now until I get majority of the bulk down first
Corals would get exposed briefly with no effect. I just tried to minimize it.
 
Sorry I meant the uv. Did you ever have it come close to coral and see ill effects? I have a lot of Dino’s in hard to reach spots right next to coral so unsure if I should just skip those areas for now until I get majority of the bulk down first
Try to keep the sweeper very near the sand. That way there is almost no light that escapes from under it. You may want to rearrange corals to make it easier.
 
Procentrum is a bit toxic to corals. Once I rid my tank of them, corals have been recovering well.

You mean prorocentrum?





Kidding giving you a hard time haha! I know what you where writing. Phone auto correct sometimes haha.
 
Thanks for this post. I’m now tempted to trying one of these units! My big tank has a UV unit that keeps everything at bay. The smaller tank does not, so I still get Dino’s showing up here and there.
 
So I have dinos in my 5 month old Red Sea Max Nano Peninsula. I let the N&P bottom out to 0. I started doing the usual to get rid of them. No real progress. I found the Sand Bed UV Sweeper thread, and decided it might help. This is before the 1st treatment;
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So the rake arrived, nice package and good quality. It's a bit tight to maneuver in my tank because I don't have a lot of room between the rock and glass, but it works. I did order the foot switch from Amazon, and glad I did, although there is an inline switch on the cord, also. I used it the next day, and the lamp died. Water got in and that was that. I emailed @Moe K and he said that's the 1st complaint he's had about the lamp. He said he would send another.

Not more than a an hour later I got the order conformation email. Four days later my new lamp was in my mailbox! Thank you Moe, that was great customer service!

So today is the fouth treatment, with a five day gap between first two and second two;
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I'm a happy camper! Great tool, great service. I'll keep updating!

Also, I'm opted for Microbactor Clean as the bottled bac. My wife is VERY tolerant of me, but I don't like to push the boundaries too far, and I read the Microbe Lift is pretty strong, odor wise.
I Like I have one have yet to use it. I have seen great results, luckily I dont have them wanted to use it for algae but found a simple way
 
You mean prorocentrum?





Kidding giving you a hard time haha! I know what you where writing. Phone auto correct sometimes haha.
My wife auto corrects me all the time. I accused her of doing it for 41 years. She answered 42
 

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