Pentair or Aqua UV

[UncommonSense]

I remember you talking about this in another thread months back.

I did! I have since found multiple saltwater pool compatible titanium bodied UV sterilizers, but they have incredibly vague to non-existent flow/dose info… so, I’ve been hesitant to bring them up in discussion as they’re not simple to qualify as effective for our marine aquarium purposes!

Being Deltec/Abyss, I’m sure the price point will be out of the majority of reefers reach.

Oh absolutely! Apparently it’s just the electronic “guts” from a Deltec plastic UV body, in a titanium body made by Abyzz, too!

Also curious if it would be more than just a lamp and housing.

It will likely be exactly this, maybe with some sort of included (or optional) controller to time power and make it run for X hrs/day, log running hours, lamp out alert, etc…

Something like a tunable, complete system with adjustable flow pump included. I think (pure speculation on my part) that most just blindly guesstimate flow/dwell……myself included. Sure I timed a gallon a few times when I originally set it up but never again.

I think a lot of this comes down to price, and the countless permutations of installations!

IceCap does make a few in-sump UV sterilizers with included submersible feed pump, and there are a few really small disposable-grade self-contained UV lamp/pump combos…

Otherwise, I think the manufacturers of all the usual “LEGO part” inline plumbed UV sterilizers are concerned about compatibility, form factor, and price when packaging a pump, and flow meter in with a UV sterilizer! (Much less the wide range of flow rates these things see in applications from marine aquariums to ponds/swimming pools, using the same device/associated plumbing!)

(There are several hang on style UV options designed to simplify things, but the above in-sump/submersible options are the only no plumbing “plug and play” sterilizers I’m familiar with!)

 

[Ryan - Serious Reefs]

This inspired me to do another round of research to see if anyone’s making a UV sterilizer with all wetted parts (less seals and quartz sleeve) being titanium… (not prone to UV degradation)

As it turns out, Deltec & Abyzz are collaborating, and have 48W and 80W titanium bodied UV sterilizers which were “2 to 3 months out from release” in March 2026, now 2-3 months behind schedule… so hopefully they will announce something soon?

Exciting, curious what that will look like at release.

If I were a betting man I'd wager this is going to be priced similar to how their pumps are priced. The ultra commercial market.