Re: [APD] EHEIM diatom Filter/ Bacterial Bloom

["Ron Nelson" <rdn2 at netgods_net>]

Seweryn Bialasiewicz wrote:

> As for the UV, what stops the UV from damaging the DNA of the 
> plants/fish/shrimp? Is it just that they do get damaged, but higher 
> organisms have more cellular machinery in place to fix that damage?
>
> - Seweryn

I may be mistaken here (And I'm sure I'll be corrected if I am.), but I 
think that the reason that a UV filter doesn't hurt plants/fish/shrimp 
is that they don't get pumped through the UV filter and therefore are 
not exposed to the UV rays...

Ron Nelson

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