Someone please correct me if I am wrong, and Marco, dont do this until
someone else confirms that it can be done, but I do believe you can run
vinegar through it to clean the calcium (which is the white coating you
have) off. Is what I would do if this WONT damage the UV is set up a
seperate container, even maybe a 5 gallon bucket with a seperate pump and
use that container to and pump to run your UV. Fill the bucket with clean
freshwater (no salt) and probably a quart or two of white distilled vinegar
and let it run for a day or two. The acidic nature of the vinegar will
dissolve the calcium. It may not totally remove it, but should loosen it
significantly so that maybe you can reach a small brush in their to clean it
off.
Just a suggestion....
Shane C.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marco Delsordo [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 8:58 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Uv sterilizer
>
> Ok, I know this topic is what caused the discussion, but i got to ask you
> another thing.
> I gotta admitt that a few years ago I was an ignorat in marine tanks
> stuff.
> So when I went to my LFS to buy calcium, the salesmen sold me kalkwasser.
> And his directions to add it to the tank where: mix the kalkwasser with
> water and pour it ALL!!! in the tank. I did so, and the results were... a
> white slime all over my tank (without counting the ph which must have been
> up to the sky) incluiding the inner parts of my uv sterilizer. That white
> slime could be taken away with a fiber pad and was no problem at all...
> but
> how would I clean the inner walls of the quartz tube in the uv lamp?? I�m
> still looking for that answer. I ran the lamp with water and a high
> concentration of chlorine but it didn�t work. So now I have a useless
> lamp.
> I gotta mentin that it is a coralife�s, so it is like a fluidized bed
> filter
> that hangs on the tank, so I can�t introduce anything into the tube
> because
> there is a 90� turn in the intake and the outake of the water flow.
> Any suggestions of how to clean my quartz tube??
> Any help would be really, really appreciatted. thanks
> Marco
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