Hi there does anyone use a UV sterilizer to help keep the tank clean are they safe with turtles?. What exactly do they do?
Andy
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UV STERILIZER
andyuk
Jan 01, 2007 03:15 PM
Replies (2)
kensopher
Jan 03, 2007 06:41 AM
I replied to you under, "Health and Diet". You added a question here.
UV sterilizers have a tube where water flows through and a very powerful UV light shines into the flowing water. The UV degrades the DNA of living organisms (and viruses, which most don't consider live). They basically kill algae, fungi, bacteria, and viruses that are living freely in the water. They kill both good and bad indescriminantly.
Unless, by some freak accident, the turtle is exposed to the beam of concentrated UV light, they pose no danger to turtles.
There's some more info. in my other reply.
Cheers
chrysemys
Jan 05, 2007 07:14 PM
I havent ever used them but they do exactly as stated before. They wont hurt the turtles at all, and will only increse the cleaniness of the water which is always a good thing...
- Chris
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0.1 Red Eared Slider, 1.0 Common Snapper, 1.0 Bearded Dragon and a 55gal Native Fish Tank with a 6in LM Bass, 3 Crawdads and a Pleco.
I use to have a collection of Leopard Geckos that I bred, but have sold them.
