Another satisfied Sand Bed UV Sweeper customer

[bradreef]

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.

 

[ScottJ]

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.

 

[winxp_man]

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.

 

[winxp_man]

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.

 

[Freenow54]

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;

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;

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

 

[Freenow54]

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

 

[itsTD]

I had Large Cell Amphidinium that the sweeper was very effective against. I treated for 10 or so seconds all around. I have a couple spots where I can't get the light very close, rocks in the way, so I left it there for a minute or so.

If your dino's are on the rocks, I'm not sure how well the sweeper will work. But on sand dino's, it's faboo!

Hey everyone, has anyone tried or had any luck with the UV sweeper on rock work as well? I have Dino’s on both my sandbed and all over rock work. The Dino’s on my rock work go into the water column at night so UV is effective for them as well. Would love to use this device for dual purpose! I do have a few soft corals scatters throughout rocks as well.

 

[Moe K]

Hey everyone, has anyone tried or had any luck with the UV sweeper on rock work as well? I have Dino’s on both my sandbed and all over rock work. The Dino’s on my rock work go into the water column at night so UV is effective for them as well. Would love to use this device for dual purpose! I do have a few soft corals scatters throughout rocks as well.

Did you scope to check if those are ostreopsis? If they are ostreopsis you need an inline uv sterilizer to get rid of those first.

 

[Freenow54]

Did you scope to check if those are ostreopsis? If they are ostreopsis you need an inline uv sterilizer to get rid of those first.

Could you explain as to Why you need an inline UV ? Thanks

 

[hatfielj]

That is a very interesting new idea. I wonder if it would work on nuisance algae problems like bubble algae or ulva? Or even aiptasia? Obviously you'd have to remove all your corals first. But, I'm just thinking there are many times in this hobby where someone is throwing in the towel due to pests/nuisance organisms that they will often just sell the livestock and dry out the rock to start over. Maybe this would be a way to save the live rock by nuking anything growing on the surface, but it would still be alive with bacteria.

I just hope the housing for these is really well designed. It obviously must be completely water proof and not prone to breaking/leaking. Could be a dangerous situation if water got onto the bulb while you were using it.