FS Vecton UV 15-Watt - Southern California - UPS Shipping

Vecton UV 15-Watt for sale, $60 plus $15 for shipping ($75 total).

The dimensions of the UV unit are 18.25" long x 5.5" wide x 2.75" tall. It has two hose barbs that can hold 3/4" or 1" tubing. The plug for the wall socket is three-pronged.

This UV unit is 15 Watts, good for tanks up to 115 gallons. The flow-rate is up to 340 gallons per hour.

It works on salt water and fresh water tanks equally well.

To attach it to your plumbing, just put it in-line with water being pumped back into the aquarium. To keep it separate from your plumbing, you could also attach a small powerhead (something rated 350 - 400 gallons per hour) to the UV unit's intake hose and use it that way. Both ways work equally well. You could run it all the time, if you wanted, or just run it for 4 - 6 hours a day on a timer and make the lamp last longer that way.

The UV lamp inside the unit has been used for 4 months. It will still be good for several more months, the lamps are rated for a year. But if you wanted to replace it with a new lamp, a new lamp would cost $30 - $40 and last for one year.

New Vecton 15-Watt units cost between $115 to $120 online.

LINK: http://www.aqua-topia.co.uk/subcat308.html

PRICE: $60.

SHIPPING: I'll ship anywhere in the USA by UPS, and we can do payment by UPS COD (collect on delivery). That's where you pay the UPS delivery person when they bring the unit to your door to deliver it. I will eat the charge for the UPS COD service -- that is not included in the price and you don't have to pay for that -- so shipping would be $15 only.

Or, if you live in Los Angeles and want to pick it up in person, we can just meet at a Starbucks and that would be cash, $60 only, no shipping costs of course!

Please PM me, or write to my e-mail, cashlaw@gmail.com.

BUMP for picture!

Trade could be very doable for a small digital camera (mine broke, and I'm stuck relying on an ancient webcam to take pictures), a canister filter for a 100G aquarium or larger, or make an offer!

Ppl have asked: well, the price is firm for cash, because this unit came from England and would cost almost $190 - $200 USA dollars to replace new, when you add in the international shipping cost . . . I think $60 is pretty good, it's 2/3 off the new price . . . but I'm open to a nice trade!

Hey everyone,

After posting earlier, I went through my aquarium stuff and found some more things to move, call it a late spring cleaning.

There's a Seio M620 powerhead, rated 600GPH, comes with an assortment of accessories. Missing the sleeve that fits over the powerhead (it cracked a while ago).

Link for the Seio powerhead: http://www.fishsupply.com/spwti-00999.html

These are about $35 - $45 new, this one can go for $15.

And I need to move a SpectraPure reverse osmosis water purifier, two chamber, three-stage model. It works, but you might want to change the RO membrane, to have the absolutely freshest water, if that is critical for your fish.

Link for the SpectraPure R/O unit: http://www.marineandreef.com/MaxPure...p/rsp10003.htm

These cost about $130 - $140 new. I want to move this one for $60.

If you want to get everything, I'll sell it all for $120 plus the cost of shipping (estimated at $30). The UV unit, the R/O unit, and the powerhead.

And if you want, I'll give you a free 2.5 gallon acrylic betta tank with mini-powerhead, and whatever odds-n-ends I find while packing the box.

$150 gets everything boxed up and shipped.

Trades are also doable. I am looking for a small digital camera, a canister filter for a 100 gallon aquarium or larger, or make an offer!

Please PM me, or write to my e-mail, cashlaw@gmail.com.

BUMP for another picture!

The pic is dark to show the UV unit working - it's sitting on a towel on top of my 90G acrylic. The hose barbs glow pale blue when the unit is turned on. The glow is barely visible in daylight.

A little more info about the SpectraPure: it's an "Eliminator" model, 90 gallons per day.

To make it work, you have to attach a powerhead to the water line that pushes water into the unit.

You can also attach it to a faucet with the brass fitting in the picture (sitting on top of the unit), but if your plumbing is older and lower water pressure, it might slow to a very slow rate. I have used it with a powerhead and buckets to hold the water, and that works very well.

Attaching a powerhead is easy . . . I used some of the fittings that came free with my powerhead. The unit needs 40 - 80 PSI of water pressure to work most effectively. Something rated 300GPH or stronger would work fine.

The company has redesigned this model. I thought that they were $130 - $140 new, but the price has gone up to $189.99 on the company web site (http://spectrapure.com/St_line_p3.htm, scroll down to MPRO-90 listing). My selling price is still the same! I just want to move the unit to a new home.

For replacement parts: the most expensive part is going to be replacing the reverse osmosis membrane and the housing that comes with it for $99. Yea, it's pricey, but cheaper than a new unit. I called SpectraPure this morning, and the tech said that it's basically a one-time cost: the new membrane will last for 5+ years.

The membrane that is in there now should still be good for at least a year of daily use, conservative estimate, maybe longer. This was only used three/four times a month for water changes, not ever used daily! But if you really, really want the absolute newest part there is, you'd need to plan on buying a new one from SpectraPure.

The link is: http://www.spectrapure.com/St_replac_p3.htm

Scroll down to part number "MEM-100-GRIP."

Hope that helps! I'd like to move everything, first person who wants everything, gets everything in the post and my collection of fish odds-n-ends, PVC fittings, hose barbs, some tubing, mini-powerheads, and a small shopping sack of assorted "stuff." LOL