Is using UV lights the best way to keep your water clear?

A UV clarifier or UV sterilizer (the sterilizer’s wattage is significantly stronger), affects only the algae that physically passes through its beam, while most algae clings to a surface and is never directly effected.

The best goal is a naturally balanced pond in which the aquatic circle of life that we discussed previously is kept alive and well, allowing Nature to do the clean up work that it does so naturally, with almost no effort on its part.

An imbalanced pond will require the aid of unnatural solutions such as UV lights.

Drawbacks to the UV solution include the fact that when algae is killed, it often falls to the bottom of the pond, which in turn breaks down and creates more available nutrition, and encourages an even greater algae bloom as the result.

Your pond can actually develop an addiction in which it needs more and more UV clarifying in order to keep up with the increasing algae growth.

And finally, UV lights are NOT CHEAP and require continual maintenance.

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