What's up fish tank people fishtanktv.com Dustin's fish tanks bringing it to you on
a Monday night. And it's a tired Monday night folks because I was doing a little bachelor
party action this weekend. Had a great old time but couldn't muscle the strength to do
a species Sunday because A. I was hung-over B. it was mothers day and coming home hung
over on mothers day isn't the best way to get points from the Mrs. Who is taking good
care of your two kids while you're gone? So here is what's going on. I want to talk today
about UV sterilizers. I'm surprised you know, I was thinking about this I don't think I
ever actually done a video about UV sterilizers. So I want to talk about it I'm surprised I
haven't ever talked about it. I haven't talked about it because I don't use them, here is
what's up people have been asking me like "yo do you use UV sterilizers, should I get
one," blah blah blah. And my answer is for a planted tank would be no and simple reason
is this. If you have your tank balanced you really don't need one look they beneficial
a UV sterilizer in a very very simple way uses in its simple explanation ultra violet
sterilizers uses ultra violet lighting to kill pathogens bad stuff that lives in you
water. I don't know if it exactly kills I don't know specifically what all it kills
but I know it can kill ich I don't know if it can kill bacteria or not but basically
it kills a lot of the bad stuff in your water. Algae, it can help kill green water if you
guys are running a high tech tank and you get some green water. It's definitely helpful
there. The trick with the UV sterilizer is to run them in a really really really slow
water flow that's counter intuitive to a lot of stuff. But really really slow water flow
and the reason you do that is it has more contact time with the ultra violet light and
you'll see some big pet shop have UV sterilizer in there main display tank they got like a
million different fish in there and seems to work well.by the way check out these crypts
I've been leaving them alone they're just kind of coming along on their own in the dirt
kind of sandy mess but loving that. So yea I don't run UV sterilizers I don't think its
totally necessary if you got one great. Keep using it but they're just not really
my thing. I try to run my tanks pretty low tech. I did have a UV sterilizer on my pond
for a minute only because I got the UV sterilizer for like $12 and I was like why not use this
and it did help a little bit with it. I had a little bit of an algae problem but not bad,
so I'm showing this tank it just got decimated had a bunch of plant orders but I did 80%
water change on it. I added the air stone and ever since I added the air stone the Cory
cats have been out so surprise surprise. Some of you long time subscribers know I had trouble
getting the Cory cats out and about. Well I did a massive water change and my boy Brian
was over here helping me with the plants. He said that he thinks the Corys are spawning.
So I'm must going to show you how they're acting they wont leave each other's side and
they are kind of like bumping their privates. I never really like fully witnessed them spawning
but he claims they are spawning. So like just tightly following each other, which makes
sense, because I slammed them with cold water, which was some advice I got from somebody
that breeds Cory catfish. So if anybody has bred Cory catfish I believe you just have
to slam them with a big water change and some colder water and immolate the rainy season.
But back to the point of the video I don't honestly think you need a UV sterilizer I
personally don't use them haven't used them in probably six or eight years. And don't
intent on using them. But they do make a couple cool varieties they make the twist on types,
they make these little hang on ones that kind of like sit on the back of your tank, these
are kind of dope. but for the most part you don't really need UV sterilizer same thing
with R.O unit, you don't need an R.O unit for planted tank R.O unit actually removes
some of the metals that your plants actually would like use. So it actually removes some
of the stuff you actually want in your tank. So that's what's going on. You don't need
a UV sterilizer the air stone helps me het the duckweed over this side which is kind
of tight and yea I'm going on vacation in a couple of days so appreciate all the support
thanks for everybody saying "yo take a break" and feeling the pressure man I got a pressure
to keep making videos. Also, big shout out to Vitali over in Ukraine. The dude made a
pretty dope banner that you see now for aquatic jungles on my main channel. So definitely
going to give a shout out for that. So welcome new subscribers appreciate every body's orders
and no more shipping plants from now until little after Memorial Day taking a little
breather having some fun. So that's what's up later.