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10-30-2006, 05:11 PM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Cincinnati, OH
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Uv Sterlizer Starting To Kill Corals (help!)
3 weeks into running an 18watt UV Sterilizer on my 75gal and now all my ICH/algea/phosphate problems are gone (yeah!)....
.....BUT my LTA, my Green Leather and Xenias as of Tonight are starting to look SHRIVELED-UP.....YIKES!!!!!!
I have the 18watt UV running 24hrs/7days-a-week on a 100GPH pump....
AM I STERLIZING THE WATER TOOOOOOO MUCH?!?!?!
WHAT ARE MY OPTIONS HERE (if I'm killing all the GOOD algea/bacteria)????
1) put the UV on a timer and run it certain hours of the day?
2) put the UV on a timer and run it every other day?
3) if I continue on this path and the UV kills off all my 'softies' will it start killing off my LIVE ROCK (coraline) also...to the point where it will BLEACH out my rock?? if so, I'll be pissed beyond belief and probably QUIT the whole hobby....
Help Me..Help Me...
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10-30-2006, 05:20 PM
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Shark
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Toledo OH
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I doubt the UV is kiiling your stuff.
100gph is really slow flow through that UV though!
You can run the UV on a timer say 16 on 8 off. But I would just run it 24/7, try dosing a little filter feeding food and target feed the BTA
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10-30-2006, 05:22 PM
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Professor Chaos
Join Date: Apr 2005
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lets get some stats and take it from there.
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10-30-2006, 05:24 PM
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Shark
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Toledo OH
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Twitterbait
lets get some stats and take it from there.
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Well,
I am 6'0", 195#, brown hair, I like SW aquariums, measurement are as follows: 44, 32, 33
opps you mean his water parameters! 
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Nano reef in the works
TIM MADE ME DO IT, Yet Robert made him do it, yet Casey made him do it!
Yet the voices in all their heads made them do it (skeety)
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10-30-2006, 05:39 PM
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Little Fishy
Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: Cincinnati, OH
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5'10" 230lbs (fat) 41yrs old .... use to like aquariums until I found out that it takes 10 hours of work to get 1 hour of enjoyment.
water specs:
amon = 0
nit = 0
phos = 0 ~ 0.5
salinity = 1.023
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10-30-2006, 06:12 PM
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Shark
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Toledo OH
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What type of flow and what type of light?
Where are the corals located in the tank??
What skimmer?
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Nano reef in the works
TIM MADE ME DO IT, Yet Robert made him do it, yet Casey made him do it!
Yet the voices in all their heads made them do it (skeety)
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10-30-2006, 06:50 PM
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The Border Collie Mod
Join Date: Feb 2001
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Quote:
Originally Posted by bucket brigade
AM I STERLIZING THE WATER TOOOOOOO MUCH?!?!?!
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5'10, 175, blonde/blue
You have another problem going on there if you think the UV solved your phosphate problems. A lot of leathers, gorgs, etc will close up to shed when they don't like their water, or to just clean off. Anemones and LPS will draw up to burp and clean.
Check your water. If I had to guess, I would say you're tanks dirty. 
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10-30-2006, 07:47 PM
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It can be rebuilt.
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: Pittsboro, NC
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6', 180, brown/hazel
yea, i really doubt your tank is to clean. Xenia are funky anyway, so i would not take to much stock in them looking funny.
how long have you had the corals/anemone? what kind of lighting do you have on the tank?
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10-30-2006, 10:52 PM
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Shark
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Toledo OH
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Wow what did I start! 
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Nano reef in the works
TIM MADE ME DO IT, Yet Robert made him do it, yet Casey made him do it!
Yet the voices in all their heads made them do it (skeety)
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