UV sterilizer

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swissysrule

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Hello, I have had my UVsterilizer running fo 6 days now. It still is has not cleared up green algea water. It has helped but still cloudy. I have a 29 gal. tank.
How long does it usually take to get tank clear?
 
Question1: what is the wattage of the UV?
Question2: what kind of UV is it? Inline, Clipon, or Internal?
Question3: what color is your aquarium water?
 
If you don't address the source of the green water it may just keep coming back.
 
9W UV lamp for up to a 50 gal. /200L aquarium.
AA green killing machine.
Internal UV Sterilizer with power head.
 
if using a 9w uv sterilizer in tank, you're on the right track.

You have best solution implemented. Might just take a few more days on those real bad algea/bacterial outbreaks.

sounds almost like a new tank syndrome, bacterial explosion.
 
Thanks for the reply. Will have to give it a couple more days see what happens.
 
Now I'm thinking if it is a bacterial explosions, what do I need to do?
 
Just stay the UV Sterilizer course. Those bacteria will get knocked down. Bacterial explosions are sort of a milky fog like color. They reproduce very fast, thus UV will take longer to clear than say an Algea bloom.
 
Lights are on 10 to 12 hrs. day. Light is a single tube . Tank &light are aqueon brand.
 
i run lights 8 hrs per day on live planted tanks. cutting down light will definitely help with blooms etc.
 
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