Insect Direct Posted August 20, 2011 Report Share Posted August 20, 2011 My UV fiilter has a very peculiar smell to it, can't explain it ... does anyone know if this is normal for UV filters, or may be it's a sign something is out of balance? Tia Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ira Posted August 20, 2011 Report Share Posted August 20, 2011 My UV fiilter has a very peculiar smell to it, can't explain it ... does anyone know if this is normal for UV filters, or may be it's a sign something is out of balance? Tia You can't smell UV...What's it smell like? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Insect Direct Posted August 20, 2011 Author Report Share Posted August 20, 2011 It's a very weird smell, cant put my finger on what it is like/ or where I've smelt something similar. Only just noticed this in last few weeks/clicked where it was coming from. Uv been running for a few months and never seen such clear water but the smell has me puzzled. Gave the canister filter a hose out yesterday as it was probably overdue.. but this morning the smells just as bad. Almost salty / chlorine like but i dunno. It's not pleasant anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiwiplymouth Posted August 20, 2011 Report Share Posted August 20, 2011 You can't smell UV...What's it smell like? You can't smell UV but you can smell the ozone that It creates and ozone smells a bit like chlorine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamosfish Posted August 21, 2011 Report Share Posted August 21, 2011 and very toxic! Can you take it apart and and give it a good clean? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GZ_Loach Posted August 21, 2011 Report Share Posted August 21, 2011 The salty smell comes from gunk in the filters, clean the uv filters intake sponge. I had two UV LED internal filters and they would create a salty smell whenever they got a bit dirty. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Insect Direct Posted August 21, 2011 Author Report Share Posted August 21, 2011 toxic ozone, oh man, looks like another late night in google land. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ira Posted August 21, 2011 Report Share Posted August 21, 2011 toxic ozone, oh man, looks like another late night in google land. Not that toxic, and not in the levels your UV might be producing. Dosing ozone is semi-common in marine tanks even, and that would produce far more than the traces that might be accidentally created by your UV sterilizer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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