Pentair Aquatics Smart UV 40 Watt Steralizer (6 months old) - $200

[Andrew Schubert]

Asking $200 for my used Pentair Aquatics 40 Watt Steralizer. The current UV light should have approx. another 4-6 months of life before needing replaced by my estimations. Unfortunately, upon trying to clean it, I dropped and broken the quartz sleeve. So the buyer will want to purchase a new one from bulkreefsupply.com - $45.99 https://www.bulkreefsupply.com/emperor-aquatics-replacement-quartz-sleeve.html

Selling item only because I've started running Zeovit which does not allow a UV Sterlizer on its system.

 

[Silent]

That is a very nice uv sterilizer.
Btw there are many people that use uv with zeovit. Also many that use uv periodically with zeovit to control algae and parasites.

 

[Andrew Schubert]

That is a very nice uv sterilizer.
Btw there are many people that use uv with zeovit. Also many that use uv periodically with zeovit to control algae and parasites.

If you follow Zeovit guide they clearly state not to use a sterilizer bc the UV will kill the bacteria you are dosing to the tank.

 

[Silent]

Yes i understand but many still use them for their own reasons

 

[Andrew Schubert]

Yes i understand but many still use them for their own reasons

Well I suppose everyone is free to do whatever they want with there tank -- doesn't make it correct. If you wanted to run Zeovit without the benefit of Zeovit, then by all means someone COULD run both if they so chose. However, you would be dosing expensive products for no reason at all except to burn through your cash. The whole point of Zeovit is to dose various elements to the tank for the purpose of building a highly beneficial bacteria colony that will allow you to run your system at ultra low nutrient levels. If you run a UV Sterilizer, the bacteria that is dosed will just be killed off, resulting in a waste of money and effort.

I suppose if you only used their Zeolite pellets, then running a sterilizer would still be "ok". But then you aren't actually running the Zeovit system.

There is only one sentence in the entire 30 page guide that korallen-zucht decided was important enough to put in bold letters, and it can be found on page 15 of their user guide. It says...

"We would like to emphasize that the use of Ozone or UV sterilizers are not possible with this system. The added microorganisms and elements will be destroyed by its use."

Here is a copy of the guide for reference - https://www.korallen-zucht.de/cms/files/zeoguide_103_english-1.pdf

 

[Pete Paschall]

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[Kyle Stephens]

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[Jaculus]

IS this still available?

 

[Lemec]

What did you use for a pump on this?

 

[Jon Fishman]

Great UV unit. GLWS

 

[Andrew Schubert]

FYI...the item is sold.