Maintaining the cleanliness of your pond and striking the ideal balance between fish, plants, and other living things can take up your entire day.
Nevertheless, incorporating a really ingenious piece of technology into your pond cleaning system can have a significant impact. Perhaps a UV pond steriliser is what you’ve been searching for.
Many different businesses have made substantial use of ultraviolet light for sterilisation. For instance, UV light is used in the medical industry to sterilise equipment, and UV radiation has even been used to make our drinking water safe. In recent years, prudent aquarium and pond owners have discovered that it helps manage algae.
So how does a UV pond steriliser work?
Pond water can flow through the housing of a properly sized UV steriliser, exposing it to UV light. As the water passes through, this efficiently eliminates bacteria and other minute creatures that can endanger your fish.
However, won’t the UV light destroy the pond’s beneficial bacteria?
To put it briefly, no. The UV pond steriliser lowers but does not completely eradicate the germs in your pond water when used at the proper size and flow rate. This is mostly unaffected because there will always be beneficial bacteria in your biological filter, on the pond liner, and in other places in the water. This makes it possible for the water to be exquisitely clear and clean.
However, installing a steriliser does not mean that you don’t need a filter. A biological pond filter fulfils a different function, breaking down the ammonia produced by fish, as well as other dead organisms. These two systems, correctly installed, work hard to maintain the correct levels in your pond, allowing your fish and plants to thrive.
If you have questions as to which is the best pond filtration and UV sterilisation system for your pond, we’d love to hear from you.
Give us a call on 011 793 1381 and let us help.
