Ozone

I have a Biocube 14 which has had its main cycle, brown diatoms are gone and the green algae is clearing up. Inhabitants include three small fish, three small corals, a cleaner shrimp five hermits and four snails and all is well, so far?
Back in the day when I had my first tank (late 80’s early 90’s) ozone seemed to be quite popular so I had to have ozone in the skimmer. When I sold my tanks back then I kept all of my testing stuff as well as my ozonizer so I dug it out the other day and installed it on the skimmer on the new tank. If you don’t know, on the Biocubes there are three compartments the rear, for the intake, trickle filter and pump. I have the skimmer (the biocube model) in the intake area and a carbon pad over the top of the trickle filter. I am not measuring mV at this time and have the ozone set very low mainly because of my concern for the trickle filter bacteria being so close to the ozone.
Finally the question. Will ozone, at too high a level kill the bacteria in the wet/dry?

Thanks,
John

 

Ozone at too high of a level will kill the whole tank. If things are alive, you're obviously not too high. However, I HIGHLY recommend testing equipment as soon as possible.

 

Thanks for the response and agree with the testing thing. Like I said I have run ozone before and am aware of its potential hazards with fish and other inhabitants but wasn’t sure about the biological bacteria. I think my original question was poorly worded.
It seems to me I remember that ozone will only stay in the water for a short time maybe a few seconds and any harmful effects directly related to the ozone itself are gone at that point. I am aware of ozones ability to raise Redox potential and that those levels need to be kept below certain levels which is why I keep the output low until I get an accurate way to measure mV. My fear is the wet/dry being so close to the skimmer with ozone the ozone may not have had time to escape the water prior to entering the wet/dry and I could wack the whole filter yet by the time the water makes it back to the tank the ozone would have been long gone. Make sense? So I guess my question was two part. Will it kill biological bacteria and how long does ozone stay in the water?

Thanks,
John

 

+2 on that one. With at tank that small you should be running a controller for the O3. Won't take much to kill a tank.

 

Yes it will kill bacteria but the ozone should dissipate prior to entering the wet/dry

 

Thanks for the help!