OZONE

[pete321]

Can anyone advise me about OZONE for my central system of about 1000 gal to reduce water changes. Is this the same effect as an ionizer?

Thanks

Pete

[pete321]

Any ideas would be welcome.

[Rod]

Hi Pete,

Ozone can greatly reduce the need for water changes as it will oxidize organic matter. In addition it will increase disolved oxygen content. Drawbacks are huge expense as you should really set it with with a redox potentiometer (spelling d'oh), a seperate vessel to perform the oxidation process and some sort of ga carbon filter to remove any ozone which may find its way into a tank containing fish or a filter containing bacteria. (it will kill them just as fast as it reduces organic matter). It is also dangerous for people, so great care must be taken so excess ozone is not released into your fish house where you might breath it in.

Ozone i believe will be the way of the future for us fish keepers, at the moment however a good setup is insanely expensive and generally only used in sophisticated professional hatcheries under intensive culture and public aquaria. There is an awesome ozone filtering setup used in the reef swimming pool at one of the hotels on the gold coast which i have seen, the guy who set it up is a friend of mine and he told me $100,000 just for the ozone generator. Off course you won't need one quite that big, but the cost is still the main drawback at this time.

hth

[pete321]

Thanks.
There are a few guys on TAF2 (tropical angel fish forum 2) who use it in their central systems. I was hoping there would be more people on this forum who were using it and could share their experiences.
Pete