Anti-Bacteiral Lights

[kueluck]

Looking for input on this type of light. LEDs - Gallium Indium Nitride UV, violet, purple, blue, aqua, turquoise, green, white. Also Gallium Arsenide and others. New LED MUSEUM! GaN, InGaN, SiC, GaAs, GaP, GaAlP, ZnSe, flashlight, flashlights. Do you think this would be good to run through the viv? Would this really help destroy bad bacteria?

[kueluck]

hmmmmm, no body has any input?? Not even Bill??

[deranged chipmunk]

Lol. Not sure how i should take that lol. I actually have to work today. But leaving soon. I'll check the link out when I get home.

[kueluck]

You just always seem to have info on just about everything. It's not an insult but a compliment.

[JeffreH]

If there is any porous material or even the slightest bit of texture to which spores or bacteria can hide from the radiation, it will not be effective. So no, I wouldn't think it would be all that effective as a vivarium sanitizer... maybe for your door knobs, kitchen counters, and plastic devices (i.e. phones) with smooth surfaces, but you will not be able to eradicate everything in the viv with this.

[kueluck]

I’ve found sites that say this can be used on bedding for pets and humans alike. So with pillows, mattresses and of course the ever so common fake sheep skin on pet beds all with porous materials how would this differ from vivs? Just asking to get a deeper clarification before getting one.

[deranged chipmunk]

You just always seem to have info on just about everything. It's not an insult but a compliment.

No worries Gail, I would never have taken it as a compliment.

Two things:
1) it states this in the ad (I copied a bit of it because I found it humorous):

The HygeniClean UVC Antibacterial Light Wand is meant to be used as a sanitising device in a dry area, not as a flashlight meant to be carried around, thrashed, trashed, and abused, so I won't try to drown it in the toliet tank, bash it against a steel rod or against the concrete floor of a patio, let my housemate's citty kats go to the litterbox on it, run over it with a 450lb Celebrity motorised wheelchair, stomp on it, use a large claw hammer in order to smash it open to check it for candiosity,

The main thing there being it's for use in dry conditions.

2) if you were to go against the above statement, and used it in a Viv, would it kill off the beneficial nitrifying and denitrifying bacteria we need in our little Eco systems?

I think it could be a useful tool in sanitizing vivs before use, or sanitizing a qt tank. But I don't see any benefits to using it in an established Viv.

Those things aside, I seriously question the apparatus at $20. I always go by "you get what you pay for". If it's cheap, then the probability stands that it probably doesn't do what it's supposed to. But then again, it may. I would love if someone who has access to one of these and a microscope could do a test run.

[deranged chipmunk]

****. Meant insult!! Brain freeze!! Lol