Of chlorine, chloramine, carbon and zeolite.

Well thank you, and thank you especially for not taking it personally. I don't mean it that way at all. This is an interesting topic and I'd like to know more about it.
 
you are very lazy in doing water changes because you make then so darn complicated . get ur water use prime to the stated dose as this will take out all nesesary elements you dont want in you tap water and add to tank job done . none of the hastle you are going thru . if i can change 7 tanks a week one of which is a marine tank im sure you can get up and do one!
 
i agree with flossy ^

i maintain 15 tanks of my own and 5 of my neighbors and work 60+ hrs a week.
 
Winston, the first part of my post was not entirely subjective. I want to see where you or someone else has discovered this bacterium that can modify an inorganic chemical (chloramine) and split the molecules. Perhaps I'm uneducated on that particular subject, but it sounds like something somebody made up (not you, but it had to start somewhere).
 
uvc? again? really?

think about it for a moment. if it really had an unlimited redox potential, killed all diseases, parasites, algae, broke the bonds and destroyed chlorine and ammonia would there be a need for any other filtration. i'd think (once again) if all the claims about uvc were true most of us wouldn't be using traditional filtration at all. it just wouldn't make any sense to buy traditional filtration at that point. heck, i'd throw away all my filters, ferts and chemicals if all this were true... including my r/o filter. there would be no use for prime, meds, carbon, bio, etc., etc. ... just water movement through a uvc filter.

surely if there were that many uses everyone would have one and prices on the units would be pennies on the dollar.
 
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