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Originally Posted by bertoni
I don't know how much a UV unit affects the bacterial population, but I'd expect it to be fairly effective if it's sized properly. Our tanks don't appear to depend much on bacteria in the water column, so the topic hasn't been studied all that much, as far as I know.
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Agreed. The bacteria we tend to focus on is on the surfaces of media (rocks, sand, plastic, pellets), or in the mucus of fish and coral.
Some of this naturally dissolves into the water column, but it's not a substantial % of impactful population. If it were, our skimmers would likely remove them as efficiently as the UV would kill them.