UV Sterilizer (1 Viewer)

[steveb]

My old tank I literally threw a pump behind a rock and ran PVC along the overflow up and out to pump water to the UV mounted above the tank.

In the new tank, I reused the old overflow holes on the bottom glass and repurposed them as a closed loop for my UV sterilizer.

Intake and effluent are at the bottom of the tank. I thought it was a good way to use the existing holes instead of just covering them up.

Your a brave man. Plumbing out the bottom scares the crap out of me lol..

My tank has a pvc bottom. It had four holes machined for bulk heads. I actually had pvc plugs machined from pvc rod to fit them then glued them in with weldon 10.

 

[Reefahholic]

I run an AquaUV Classic and use the guide on their website for flow rate in a reef tank so I can run it 24/7.
It's plumbed in-line so all my return goes through the UV.

d2mini speaks on Marsh! Lol

Been a long time since you been here bro.

 

[d2mini]

AquaUV's ratings are more conservative than Emperor and definitely more conservative than the University of Florida research. From memory, Emperor's recommendations is 2x higher than AquaUV killing marine protists and the University of Florida is 4-5x higher.

Take this all with a grain of salt however as its really all a fuzzy science to me as the number from the University of Florida research is an extrapolated number from their research with freshwater ich... Which is not even the same thing.

For ich maintenance, I would be hesitant to recommend plumbing with the return as the flow rate is too fast to allow enough contact time to kill ich. You want somewhere around 200-300 gph to kill ich in most setups and return flow in most systems exceeds that easily. It probably is sufficient for clarification though for killing algae spores as that takes very little contact time.

Good to know about the different companies.
I do run mine fairly conservative, not max kill mode. lol
A manifold would be a good idea if you think you may need to go bigger, run conservative most of the time and occasionally need to turn it up to 11 to nuke the tank.

d2mini speaks on Marsh! Lol

Been a long time since you been here bro.

Yeah... mostly on R2R.

 

[Reefahholic]

Good to know about the different companies.
I do run mine fairly conservative, not max kill mode. lol
A manifold would be a good idea if you think you may need to go bigger, run conservative most of the time and occasionally need to turn it up to 11 to nuke the tank.

Yeah... mostly on R2R.

Yeah I see you there.