原装设备制造商Wavereef.已经推出了三个撇渣器，内置了UV。适用于AC或DC泵并设计用于坐在贮槽内部或外部，K6，K7和K9蛋白质撇渣器是通用锥形撇芯，适用于80至4000加仑的体积。
They operate in the normal way with standard bubble diffuser plates, venturi-style pinwheel pumps, and air silencers. But the similarity stops there because situated right in the middle of those standpipe-style water level adjusters is a UV bulb, and that’s the first time we’ve seen a UV actually built into a protein skimmer. We’ve seen external canister filters with UV built in before, and areas set aside for蛋白质撇蛋白中的化学或生物培养基以这种方式,但从未与紫外线内置,。
对于Hobbyist Refers，K6范围有五种型号尺寸，锥形直径为4-10英寸，速度为80-550加仑的罐。根据模型，泵从400-1200磅的空气中抽取在10到28瓦的电力之间。内置的紫外线有自己的电源，但是安装有相同的11瓦灯泡，无论模型大小如何。
If you want aDC pump-powered skimmer,the K7 range also comes in five model sizes with cone diameters from 4-10” across. The improved DC pumps draw more air at between 500-2100lph, only at the expense of energy usage at 10 to 50 watts of maximum power, depending on the model. The air increase also means an increased maximum system volume recommendation of 80-650 gallons, but the UV power remains the same at 11 watts across all models.
Commercial hybrid skimmer
如果你有它，使用它，Wavereef已经证明，通过拟合紫外线进入他们的更大商业大小的蛋白质撇蛋白。K9-UV范围是外部，落地撇芯，七种型号尺寸，锥形直径为5-20英寸，并在1.50-3965加仑的系统中额定值。所有这些都是由DC可控泵供电，使用16到3 x 72瓦的电力，但可以根据模型绘制500到9000lph的空气。K9-130UV再次启动了同样的旧11瓦UV灯泡，但更大，谢谢UV输出开始跳至27,40，然后是90瓦的UV电源，具体取决于撇渣器模型。
蛋白质撇蛋白和紫外线
Reefing社区仍然是划分是否在家庭礁石水色中使用紫外线。Microbiome testingcan now prove that the use of UV lowers numbers of all microbes, good and bad, but the use of UV sterilizers for fish disease pathogen control cement UV’s place in our home aquariums and especially those of our fish suppliers. Buy an Ich-prone fish like a Powder Blue Tang, put it in your tank, and if it gets Ich, UV will be the first thing anyone asks you about. But there’s a big difference between a few watts of UV for water clarification and the long contact time, narrow void space, high output UVC needed for effective sterilization.
将小紫外线含入K6和K7撇渣器范围是新颖的，并且可能会将一些澄清器属性添加到已经尝试和测试的撇渣器中。但尽管空间紧张，但我们不确定很多寄生虫烧焦会在那里继续，或者那些渴望新的撇渣器和紫外线消毒器的人应该再次检查两种盒子。
Placement
UV的放置在某种程度上困扰着我们，我们将掌握了它的潜在效果。正如我们上面所说的那样，它位于水位调节管内，这是经验丰富的referers将知道的是在底端切割成45度的管道。将其左转或向右转，离开撇渣器主体的水流被限制或打开，并且水位要么爬下或落在撇渣器身体的颈部。
So not being pump-fed, presumably to get increased contact with the full length of the bulb you need to send more water up the tube, increasing the water level in the skimmer neck and cup as you do so, but if you bring the water level right down to adjust an overflowing skimmer is the bulb left high and dry and the contact lost? Also whats the circulation like in that tube? Is water actually flowing in and out, up and then down that pipe at a reasonable rate, or is it pretty much the same dead water sat in the pipe the whole time? This isn’t a problem you’d have with a standard inline，泵送紫外线模型。
And does water that is much richer in organics have a positive or negative effect on UV clarification or sterilization? A germicidal lamp is at its most effective when it penetrates clear water through a clean, quartz tube. Particulate matter can shield algae and pathogens behind it as water passes the bulb and potentially, water thick in air bubbles could negatively affect UV performance too.
More power please
K系列Skimmers将UV放在外流上，这意味着损坏的藻类细胞将保留在贮槽中，然后需要在下一个通道上拆下，然后在通过细滤器袜子或滚筒过滤器捕获之前返回到下一条通道时。浮游植物users will know too that protein skimmers are also good at skimming off algae, so we’d like to have seen the UV clarifiers placed before the pump inlet, so those unicellular algae could then be skimmed off after passing the UV. And despite Wavereef stating in its literature that it kills micro algae efficiently, we’d like to see a lot more UV power in watts incorporated into the K6 and K7 ranges as 11 watts of UV in a 650 gallon, probably fish-heavy system, may not do much either.
Cast your eye over these and other Wavereef products and they will probably look familiar. Chinese company Wavereef produces own-brand products for aquatic companies on both sides of the Atlantic so we fully expect to see rebadged (identical,) versions of these hybrid protein skimmers appearing in the future.
