let me just leave that in there
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all right guys i wanted to close the
book on the uv sterilizer on the nano
thing i went and got another bulb it was
defective from the factory so
here's what i did with the coralite
mini ultraviolet sterilizer the reason
why i chose this coral life is they have
a pretty good history a couple of you
recommended
some really cool
uv sterilizers they would have been fine
i think but i was thinking of something
a little smaller
that i could show you guys or new nano
reef keepers that you could keep one in
a compartment in the back of your nano
reef the price point was decent
and obviously
uh that was important for a nano now
i've run this and i put it back in the
box actually
so
here's the first thing i liked about it
it's the size
that's probably about eight inches it
doesn't come with a pump plenty of
length of cord on this
to reach
it's got the little window here so you
can see that the light is on
which is a good thing
this is the bottom
and this is the top
and then this
this goes on here like this
and that's directional so you can put it
on
any way you want i wanted to point out
that i don't believe it's necessary to
run a uv all the time some reef keepers
will it also comes with an adapter which
is kind of cool this adapter would fit
different
sizes now this is meant
to go in the coral life bio cube it fits
14 and 29
but it can fit anything if you just make
the hose work on your pump what i did
notice from last week after my bowl
burned out
i noticed the blooms started to come
back my water didn't look as clear so
that's another issue you might want to
consider and what worked out perfect
with mine
was the c che
little mini
nano pump
it was perfect
and it's the right amount of flow you
want about a hundred gallons per hour
through a uv you don't want it too fast
because then there's not as much
contact time so what i'm going to do is
put this in the bottom
of my overflow box
and i'm going to run this up the top
and out as the overflow
a lot of reef keepers
use a uv on a quarantine tank or a
hospital tank you know to take care of
stuff when it comes in before the
display or if a fish gets sick and they
want to put it in there really simple
it comes with these two extension pieces
so depending on how tall
your tank is this could go in the
overflow compartment or any of the
compartments in there and you can adjust
it so if you needed even something
longer than this and this is half inch
inside diameter here's the light in here
no case around it no covering it's
waterproofed down where it makes the
connection this is really easy it just
screws in
all right the way i'm going to do this
is i'm going to put the use the longer
hose because i held it up against my
tank and i want to utilize this as the
overflow
so if i do that i'm going to put the c
chain right on the bottom
that's going to go in like
this
it's perfect fit for this little cj nano
that's going to go in my overflow
and then this
i'll rotate so it goes right back into
my tank you got to fiddle with this a
little bit
but it will go in any direction you just
have to kind of get it just right there
you go
all right and that's going to be the
return so that means everything that
comes through this pump
down through the overflow
will go through the uv
all right
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see what i did here guys it's down into
the overflow now i wouldn't put this in
mine it's just a little too cramped i
wouldn't feel i needed a uv to run
continuously but you can see here the
light is on so you can see the uv is in
operation what i did with the overflow
is i added part of the other hose that
came with it to bring the water back
into my 10 gallon so you would be able
to use whatever you wanted
and if you wanted to run this 24 7 i
would say if you had a larger nano with
a separate compartment that you don't
have anything to use it for
then maybe this would go in there and
then it wouldn't have to flow back into
your tank it would just go through the
uv
and in back into your compartment and
just work circulating through the way
this is set up everything that's going
over the overflow has to come back
through the uv sterilizer and then back
in
this is how i set mine up temporarily
just to clear the water up
i put it right in the tank
and i set it up you can see the light is
on there
that's quite a bit smaller than my other
one
and there's the cj synchro down on the
bottom there so it did the job so i
would recommend this
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so you guys tell me those of you who
have had uv sterilizers and run them 24
7.
shoot a comment out there let us know
what you think about the uv sterilizer
and how it's worked for you
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