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My Tank - dosing recomendations, thanks!
Hi All,
Its great to see this forum. Zeovit at the moment in Australia is not widely accepted and when i post on our local forum pages i get flamed, so i have given up and joined this forum where i can talk about Zeovit openly.
Here is a run down on my tank as off last week (as posted on RC):-
1. Gross water volume of your complete system (incl. sump etc.)
Approx 550L (137G)
2. Net water volume (incl. sump etc.)
Approx 400-450L (100-112G)
3. Are you using a CaCO2 reactor or other technique
Yes, Korallin C1501
4. Are you using a PO4 reactor (how long, how long ago, etc.)
No
5. Are you using Ozone
No
6. Are you using UV
No
7. What skimmer are you using (type, rated water volume)
MY REEF CREATIONS MR2 - Twin Beckett - Rated 300G
8. What are your actual PO4 and NO3 levels
PO4 - 0.03 (salifert) - NO3 - 0.5 (salifert) - both dropping still
9. What are your actual Ca, Alk and Mg levels
CA 425 / ALK 5.4 DKH!!!! / MG 1260 (all salifert). ALK has droped quite a bit since i lasted tested around 14 days ago. Have tweaked my CA reactor, should sort it out. Also CA levels have droped from 460 to the 425.
10. What filtration method do you use (refugium, DSB, Miracle Mud, etc.)
Live Rock only - Skimmer and zeovit
11. Type of light (Watt, color temp, how old, etc.)
6 hours a day - 2 x 150MH - Ushio 20K bulbs - 1 month old
6 hours a day - 2 x 400MH - AB 13K bulbs - 1 month old
12. What corals do you keep
SPS
13. Tissue color (light or dark)
Was very brown, but corals starting to lighten, some geting a blue sheen. Others going more green. After last rock change out, the corals went darker again.
14. How long has the tank been running
6 weeks
15. Why do you want to use the ZEOvit system
Low nutrients and of course colourful corals.
16. Any supplemental dosing (type, amount, why, etc.)
No
17. Live rock (how much, how old, etc.)
53KG - 116LB's - 6 weeks old
18. Any present problems
Some Acro's branches have bleached, started at base, not lost any whole species so far. Very rapid loss of tisue. Also brown smear algae on glass and power heads.
19. Problem description (tissue loss tips, tissue loss base, diatom bloom, algae, etc.)
As above
20. What test kit do you use (how old, recently switched, etc.)
Salifert, all 6 weeks old and in date. Have ordered Hanna P04 colormeter.
21. Present dosing, amounts and intervals (ZEOvit, ZEObak, ZEOfood, ZEOstart, ZEOspur2, etc.)
Have backed dosing back, but still geting algae? I have done first zeovit change out. Kept 10% of old rock in zeo filter. Flow rate through zeo filter approx 400L/HR / 100G/Hr (Eheim 1048). Just completed first 2 weeks of the new rocks, was dosing 2 drops of Zeofood / Bac and 0.5ML of Zeostart (every other day). Zeovit rocks 1L. Filter on 3 hours / off 3 hours etc etc etc. Rocks remained submerged.
So now i'm moving into the maintenance stage of Zeofood / Bac. Dosing twice a week. Do you think i should further reduce my dosing to 1 drop of zeofood and zeobac? Do you think the 0.5ML of Zeostart is OK?
Do you think i should dose 1 drop of zeofood / bac and 0.5ML every other day when i change out the rock in 2 weeks time?
22. Other water parameters and water stability (salinity, temp, etc.)
Water temp steady at 26Min - 28Max (Aquamedic chiller). Salinity was 1.027, have brought it down to 1.026 and will further reduce to 1.025. Doing 5% NSW water change a week. Water of our coast in Australia is 1.028 (West Coast).
Now this week, the KH is now 7.4 DKH, Sainity 1.025, P04 0.05 and looks to be rising slowly, N03 - 1PPM (this has also increased by 100%).
The increases have happend since i have reduced dosing to 1 drop of bac/food (twice a week) and 0.25 ML of Zeo start evey other day. Tank is still getting algae (smear) on glass but now the corals don't seem as bright. I was thinking of uping the dose to 2 drops of bac/food (twice a week) and 5ML of start every other day.
My problems with bleeching only happend when i was doing 4 drops of bac/food every other day (after rock change out). It's strange as in this period some of the other corals looked really colourful (its got to be a thin line between love and hate)!
Your thoughts on the above will be much appreciated.
Cheers
Che
Its great to see this forum. Zeovit at the moment in Australia is not widely accepted and when i post on our local forum pages i get flamed, so i have given up and joined this forum where i can talk about Zeovit openly.
Here is a run down on my tank as off last week (as posted on RC):-
1. Gross water volume of your complete system (incl. sump etc.)
Approx 550L (137G)
2. Net water volume (incl. sump etc.)
Approx 400-450L (100-112G)
3. Are you using a CaCO2 reactor or other technique
Yes, Korallin C1501
4. Are you using a PO4 reactor (how long, how long ago, etc.)
No
5. Are you using Ozone
No
6. Are you using UV
No
7. What skimmer are you using (type, rated water volume)
MY REEF CREATIONS MR2 - Twin Beckett - Rated 300G
8. What are your actual PO4 and NO3 levels
PO4 - 0.03 (salifert) - NO3 - 0.5 (salifert) - both dropping still
9. What are your actual Ca, Alk and Mg levels
CA 425 / ALK 5.4 DKH!!!! / MG 1260 (all salifert). ALK has droped quite a bit since i lasted tested around 14 days ago. Have tweaked my CA reactor, should sort it out. Also CA levels have droped from 460 to the 425.
10. What filtration method do you use (refugium, DSB, Miracle Mud, etc.)
Live Rock only - Skimmer and zeovit
11. Type of light (Watt, color temp, how old, etc.)
6 hours a day - 2 x 150MH - Ushio 20K bulbs - 1 month old
6 hours a day - 2 x 400MH - AB 13K bulbs - 1 month old
12. What corals do you keep
SPS
13. Tissue color (light or dark)
Was very brown, but corals starting to lighten, some geting a blue sheen. Others going more green. After last rock change out, the corals went darker again.
14. How long has the tank been running
6 weeks
15. Why do you want to use the ZEOvit system
Low nutrients and of course colourful corals.
16. Any supplemental dosing (type, amount, why, etc.)
No
17. Live rock (how much, how old, etc.)
53KG - 116LB's - 6 weeks old
18. Any present problems
Some Acro's branches have bleached, started at base, not lost any whole species so far. Very rapid loss of tisue. Also brown smear algae on glass and power heads.
19. Problem description (tissue loss tips, tissue loss base, diatom bloom, algae, etc.)
As above
20. What test kit do you use (how old, recently switched, etc.)
Salifert, all 6 weeks old and in date. Have ordered Hanna P04 colormeter.
21. Present dosing, amounts and intervals (ZEOvit, ZEObak, ZEOfood, ZEOstart, ZEOspur2, etc.)
Have backed dosing back, but still geting algae? I have done first zeovit change out. Kept 10% of old rock in zeo filter. Flow rate through zeo filter approx 400L/HR / 100G/Hr (Eheim 1048). Just completed first 2 weeks of the new rocks, was dosing 2 drops of Zeofood / Bac and 0.5ML of Zeostart (every other day). Zeovit rocks 1L. Filter on 3 hours / off 3 hours etc etc etc. Rocks remained submerged.
So now i'm moving into the maintenance stage of Zeofood / Bac. Dosing twice a week. Do you think i should further reduce my dosing to 1 drop of zeofood and zeobac? Do you think the 0.5ML of Zeostart is OK?
Do you think i should dose 1 drop of zeofood / bac and 0.5ML every other day when i change out the rock in 2 weeks time?
22. Other water parameters and water stability (salinity, temp, etc.)
Water temp steady at 26Min - 28Max (Aquamedic chiller). Salinity was 1.027, have brought it down to 1.026 and will further reduce to 1.025. Doing 5% NSW water change a week. Water of our coast in Australia is 1.028 (West Coast).
Now this week, the KH is now 7.4 DKH, Sainity 1.025, P04 0.05 and looks to be rising slowly, N03 - 1PPM (this has also increased by 100%).The increases have happend since i have reduced dosing to 1 drop of bac/food (twice a week) and 0.25 ML of Zeo start evey other day. Tank is still getting algae (smear) on glass but now the corals don't seem as bright. I was thinking of uping the dose to 2 drops of bac/food (twice a week) and 5ML of start every other day.
My problems with bleeching only happend when i was doing 4 drops of bac/food every other day (after rock change out). It's strange as in this period some of the other corals looked really colourful (its got to be a thin line between love and hate)!
Your thoughts on the above will be much appreciated.
Cheers
Che
Bob
:flame: 
But i know ZEO ..."rocks" 
! 
Really cool bloke. 
... would love to one day
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