UV Sterilizer

[dradnan04]

Hi everyone
I need a suggestion to know what would be the best UV sterilizer for my 240 saltwater tank?
I have a lots of dinos and algae sitting there

 

[Tangdora]

You need to know what Dino’s you have to properly treat. They need to be a species that goes into the water water column to kill with uv like ostreopsis,

I probably went a bit more extremes. Fourms will tell your roughly 1 watt per 3 gallon but the Only thing that ever killer my insane Dino problem was running 4-5x turnover at 150-180k um in a closed loop setup. I run a 228w (2 - 114ws) aqua uv on a 375 gallon to achieve that intensity. Ran 24/7 to eradicate may issue which it did. But now run it 8 hours a night only as maintenance given its intensity only cranking up the hours when needed.

To achieve something similar in a 240 would need to run 960 -1200 gph through like a 160w according to the aqua uv chart.

 

[get-salty]

Hi everyone
I need a suggestion to know what would be the best UV sterilizer for my 240 saltwater tank?
I have a lots of dinos and algae sitting there

to answer your question:
Aqua Ultraviolet and Pentair Aquatics are two of the best.
I had and used the Aqua for clearer water.

 

[dradnan04]

to answer your question:
Aqua Ultraviolet and Pentair Aquatics are two of the best.
I had and used the Aqua for clearer water.

Thank you so much

 

[dradnan04]

You need to know what Dino’s you have to properly treat. They need to be a species that goes into the water water column to kill with uv like ostreopsis,

I probably went a bit more extremes. Fourms will tell your roughly 1 watt per 3 gallon but the Only thing that ever killer my insane Dino problem was running 4-5x turnover at 150-180k um in a closed loop setup. I run a 228w (2 - 114ws) aqua uv on a 375 gallon to achieve that intensity. Ran 24/7 to eradicate may issue which it did. But now run it 8 hours a night only as maintenance given its intensity only cranking up the hours when needed.

To achieve something similar in a 240 would need to run 960 -1200 gph through like a 160w according to the aqua uv chart.

Thanks for the delayed reply . So, it means I need a 160 watt UV sterilizer?