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Since going zeo my tank has cleaned up beautifully, zero algae, flatworms gone, looking real crisp.
Anyhow, around 2 weeks ago my son ( well meaning ) came home with a copperband butterfly fish. Heart kind of sank when I saw it because it was pretty skinny, and my suspicions were confirmed, it would not eat.
So I spent the next week or so dumping major quantities of mysis, brine, and whatever into the tank to try to get it started. But no joy, a few days ago I moved the CB to another tank, and thismorning it was dead
The reason I was prepared to dump all this stuff in the tank was overconfidence. The tank was just looking so clean I just didn't think anything could hurt it. However, last couple of days, cyano appearing, hair algae sprouting, and thismorning I found some tiny little flatworms, they must have been there all along, in shrivelled up form. Interestingly though coral color has not suffered (yet)
So the lesson here is that even with zeovit, it can only do so much. I'm wondering if some of these posts from people who have tried zeo and failed, is just too much bioload, and asking too much of the sytem.
Anyhow, now I'll be cutting feeding right back for a while to get things straightened out. A question also, I did the zeolite change just on 4 weeks ago, should I carry on and let it run the 6 weeks, or should I do a change now?
Anyhow, around 2 weeks ago my son ( well meaning ) came home with a copperband butterfly fish. Heart kind of sank when I saw it because it was pretty skinny, and my suspicions were confirmed, it would not eat.
So I spent the next week or so dumping major quantities of mysis, brine, and whatever into the tank to try to get it started. But no joy, a few days ago I moved the CB to another tank, and thismorning it was dead
The reason I was prepared to dump all this stuff in the tank was overconfidence. The tank was just looking so clean I just didn't think anything could hurt it. However, last couple of days, cyano appearing, hair algae sprouting, and thismorning I found some tiny little flatworms, they must have been there all along, in shrivelled up form. Interestingly though coral color has not suffered (yet)
So the lesson here is that even with zeovit, it can only do so much. I'm wondering if some of these posts from people who have tried zeo and failed, is just too much bioload, and asking too much of the sytem.
Anyhow, now I'll be cutting feeding right back for a while to get things straightened out. A question also, I did the zeolite change just on 4 weeks ago, should I carry on and let it run the 6 weeks, or should I do a change now?
Cathy's[my wife] Grandmother uses it all the time. Just not used alot over here, thnx. for the smile. Bob
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