Tweet
I just placed an order for the zeo basic pack from Omegareef. It prolly wont ship till early next year. That gives me time to build my reactor. I have no complaints in my system. I just want to know if it could be better.
Now my info
1. 90g AGA/20g sump
2. About 85g
3. I use a DIY dual chamber calcium reactor. 1st chamber if filled with Schuran media and the second with ARM.
4. I have a DIY PO4 reactor with Phosban. I have been using it for about a year.
5. I do apply ozone
6. No UV
7. I have a Coralife super skimmer 220. But I have modified this skimmer a bit. I now use a small 200gph feed pump and installed a A sedra 5000 for a recirc pump. Not sure what it is rated since I modified it but, it does a great job for me.
8. PO4 is less than .05 (seachem), N03 is 0 (salifert)
9. Ca is 435ppm (salifert), Alk is 9dkh (salifert), Mg is 1300ppm (salifert)
10.I run a BB fuge with some LR and chaeto. Chaeto however doesnt do well in my fuge for some reason. I also run a SSB in the main tank.
11. Lights is a pair of 250 de. PFO mini, PFO magnetic. Lamps are a week old using Ushio 14k. A pair of 54w T5s blue plus are used for supplementation. I am however considering going back to VHO URI actinics for supplement lighting.
12. 80% sps, 10% lps, 10% softies(mainly zoos). Nothing fancy, no LE corals.
13. Tissue colors is fair. It could be better.
14. Tank was setup on 04/04/04. Sure, I remember that date but cant remember my anniversary.
15. Reason I want to try zeo is because, I want the colors Invincible569 has!
16. I dose Korralin AA. Kalk is added to my topoff water. Oceans Blend magnesium and Kent turbo calcium is added to my w/c water.
17. I have about 110 lbs of LR.
18. I had a mille colony RTN on me about a month ago. Not sure why though.
19. Other than my mille RTNing, just your occasional algae on the glass. I do have some pink cotton type algae in my fuge. I do have bubble algae but I gave up in trying to fight it. I learned to just live with it.
20. For Ca, Alk and Mg, I use Salifert. PO4, N03, Amm, I use seachem. All test kits are about a year old or newer.
21. I havent started Zeo just yet. Still have to wait for it to arrive. I think I will start with half a liter of zeo for now and dose only half of the recommended dossage for established tanks using zeo for the first time on the start, food and bac.
22. Salinity is 1.026, Ph fluctuates from 7.9 to 8.2, Temp normally ranges from 77.5 to 79 this time of the year. In the summer, it sometimes go to 82.
Any advice is much appreciated and hopefully Zeovit is for me. Thanks!
Now my info
1. 90g AGA/20g sump
2. About 85g
3. I use a DIY dual chamber calcium reactor. 1st chamber if filled with Schuran media and the second with ARM.
4. I have a DIY PO4 reactor with Phosban. I have been using it for about a year.
5. I do apply ozone
6. No UV
7. I have a Coralife super skimmer 220. But I have modified this skimmer a bit. I now use a small 200gph feed pump and installed a A sedra 5000 for a recirc pump. Not sure what it is rated since I modified it but, it does a great job for me.
8. PO4 is less than .05 (seachem), N03 is 0 (salifert)
9. Ca is 435ppm (salifert), Alk is 9dkh (salifert), Mg is 1300ppm (salifert)
10.I run a BB fuge with some LR and chaeto. Chaeto however doesnt do well in my fuge for some reason. I also run a SSB in the main tank.
11. Lights is a pair of 250 de. PFO mini, PFO magnetic. Lamps are a week old using Ushio 14k. A pair of 54w T5s blue plus are used for supplementation. I am however considering going back to VHO URI actinics for supplement lighting.
12. 80% sps, 10% lps, 10% softies(mainly zoos). Nothing fancy, no LE corals.
13. Tissue colors is fair. It could be better.
14. Tank was setup on 04/04/04. Sure, I remember that date but cant remember my anniversary.
15. Reason I want to try zeo is because, I want the colors Invincible569 has!
16. I dose Korralin AA. Kalk is added to my topoff water. Oceans Blend magnesium and Kent turbo calcium is added to my w/c water.
17. I have about 110 lbs of LR.
18. I had a mille colony RTN on me about a month ago. Not sure why though.
19. Other than my mille RTNing, just your occasional algae on the glass. I do have some pink cotton type algae in my fuge. I do have bubble algae but I gave up in trying to fight it. I learned to just live with it.
20. For Ca, Alk and Mg, I use Salifert. PO4, N03, Amm, I use seachem. All test kits are about a year old or newer.
21. I havent started Zeo just yet. Still have to wait for it to arrive. I think I will start with half a liter of zeo for now and dose only half of the recommended dossage for established tanks using zeo for the first time on the start, food and bac.
22. Salinity is 1.026, Ph fluctuates from 7.9 to 8.2, Temp normally ranges from 77.5 to 79 this time of the year. In the summer, it sometimes go to 82.
Any advice is much appreciated and hopefully Zeovit is for me. Thanks!
You'll have a marked improvement in SPS coloration & growth with the ZEOvit method. Will it be as good as Edward's? Well time will tell. No matter, if you follow the ZEOvit guidelines & don't mix methodologies from past experiences, you will be successful. To that degree, with the ZEOvit method, 03 & P04-removers as well as KW are not used. Since you have some time before starting read all the stickies at the top of this forum & understand the basics well. With ZEOvit, the parameters are kept as NSW levels:Ca>400<450/Mg>1200<1400/KH 6-8/salinity 1.023-.026. Be sure to lower the dKH to <8 before beginning. For your system I recommend the following:
:. As one goes deeper into ZEOvit, the P04's becomes lower than we can test w/o a Hanna. It is not necessary, though, but does give us a better gauge on our individual zeo-dosages. Russ, an easy way to raise pH, is to connect the airline on our skimmer to the outside air. My home was built in 1926, so extreme air-tightness does not exist
Comment