UV Filter

[1979fishgeek]

hey guys

Been having a issue with brown jelly disease with some euphyilla since I bought a wall Hammer a few months ago which was infected at the cut site, I have since lost a bubble Coral and all my beloved torches, thought it had burnt itself out, but woke up this morning to a frogspawn with three heads completely mush. I am gutted...like .

As it's a Protozoa infection was wondering if a UV filter would be beneficial?

If so seeing it's a 900l system can I save money by buying a uv steriliser designed for a Pond? I seen very affordable 36w and 55w units?

I had been running ozone, up until Christmas Day when it destroyed the tubing on my skimmer and have removed it till I can sort something safer out. Clearly the ozone had not killed the Protozoa anyway not sure if it was having any effect other than reducing skimmate! Coz since it's off wow am I in love with me skimmer again. Lol

 

[Cory]

This is a tough one. Not sire what to do but you could do a 3% peroxide dip in seawater. But it might harm the coral too.

 

[1979fishgeek]

I tried iodine, Dettol dips still lost them. I also took badly affected heads off colony's and binned them and then treated colony's in separate tank, dipping twice daily. Once the tissue was infected it was a gonner.

I am hoping a UV filter could work to distroy the BJD in the water column. Same way white spot is destroyed once it leaves its host?