Freshwater UV Sterilizer

[TorturedSOUL]

Anyone built their own UV Sterilizer? My company has a bunch of UV bulbs from our decommisioned Biosafety hoods. I was thinking of trying to make my own sterilizer.

Do they even do anything for freshwater?

thanks in advance,
TS

 

[asaint]

I've never built a UV sterilizer but would caution you to be careful if you attempt it. I've used a UV sterilizer to great success in clearing up green water syndrome in a planted tank. The results were amazing.

There is a review of the Turbo-Twist Unit here http://www.cloudytanks.com/reviews/aquariums/uv.html

 

[beviking]

Never done it but where there's a will there IS a way! You just have to use UV resistant material and find a way to power it w/o it leaking at the same time. With enough power, it's suppose to be able to kill ich tomites along with malevelant bacteria too. Oh, and good bacteria.

 

[TorturedSOUL]

would UV be able to travel through a clear plastic tube.

I was thinking about getting an outer tube like a wide diameter PVC pipe or make a box and then put in a florecent light fixture (with an on off switch) for the bulb then through the middle of the box I would run a clear plastic tube (that I would actually make be the input for my canister filter).