Preface:
I’ve been out of the hobby for 12 years. Started back a small JBJ Nano cube. What an unfortunate tank to start with. Very cramp “sump”. Starting small to get my wife’s buy in. This is my practice tank for my dream tank. I am tired of “winging it”. I’d like to start a system of reef keeping based on a tried and true principle approach. My current system is completely out of balance and I am already tired of fighting it.
My goals: implement the zero basic 4, and select elements for basic goals, ie Amino acids for health, and long term ZeoSpur to adjust colors if desired.
Equipment — I am going to use a small internal Innovative Marine Media Reactor for the media. Which can fit 250 mL of Zeolites with room to spare for pumping and agitation.
I have an Apex auto change water system set up.
Concerns — I travel out of town for my sales job up to 3 days at a time, will this be an issue? I can ask my wife to do this for me, but will not be happy to. I have preloaded her 1 mL syringes in the past.
1. Gross water volume of your complete system (incl. sump etc.) - US gallons / UK gallons / liter — 100 L
2. Net water volume (incl. sump etc.) - US gallons / UK gallons / liter — 102 L
3. Are you using a CaCO2 reactor or other technique — water changes at this point, which is part of the issue creating imbalances, I will switch to 2 part system eventually.
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) — Deltec MCE300 Hang on back skimmer
8. What are your actual PO4 and NO3 levels — 0.02 PPM PO4 Hanna Phosphorus ULR and 25 ppm NO3
9. What are your actual Ca, Alk and Mg levels — Calcium is unusually high, but I believe my Salifert test is off. 480 PPM, Alkalinity is 7.3 dKH, Magnesium I don’t test for yet.
10. What filtration method do you use (refugium, DSB, Miracle Mud, etc.) — Sand is 3 cm, I have 8 pieces of 5 cm^3 ceramic media in the lower sump area,
11. Type of light (Watt, color temp, how old, etc.) — EcoTech Radion, G4, very blue, 20kish, new.
12. What corals do you keep — SPS, and a couple LPS. I’d like to expand my LPS collection
13. Tissue color (light or dark) — richer colors, but some have lost their colors due to swinging nutrient parameters.
14. How long has the tank been running — since August.
15. Why do you want to use the ZEOvit system —
I want a systematic approach to reef keeping. I don’t want to fight strange unstable parameters. I know that’s tough in a 100 L tank, but it’s this practice tank that will grow into a bigger system.
16. Any supplemental dosing (type, amount, why —- MicroBacter7 and ZeoBak, I am fighting some nutrient imbalances, which testing shows I am low on phosphates by high on nitrates. Large Cell dinos and cyno are trying to persist.
17. Live rock (how much, how old, etc.). — about 15 lbs, well cured and established live rock.
18. Any present problems — mild chronic dinos or cyno. Losing some color in SPS.
19. Problem description (tissue loss tips, tissue loss base, diatom bloom, algae, etc.) — rusty stringy sand, no green hair alage
20. What test kit do you use (how old, recently switched, etc.) - Hanna and Salifert, Apex probes, all well calibrated and cared for.
21. Present dosing, amounts and intervals (ZEOvit, ZEObak, ZEOfood, ZEOstart, ZEOspur2, etc.) — 1 drop of ZeoBak per day.
22. Other water parameters and water stability (salinity, temp, etc.) 35 ppt, 80 degrees F
23. Which salt brand do you use — Tropic Marin ProReef
I’ve been out of the hobby for 12 years. Started back a small JBJ Nano cube. What an unfortunate tank to start with. Very cramp “sump”. Starting small to get my wife’s buy in. This is my practice tank for my dream tank. I am tired of “winging it”. I’d like to start a system of reef keeping based on a tried and true principle approach. My current system is completely out of balance and I am already tired of fighting it.
My goals: implement the zero basic 4, and select elements for basic goals, ie Amino acids for health, and long term ZeoSpur to adjust colors if desired.
Equipment — I am going to use a small internal Innovative Marine Media Reactor for the media. Which can fit 250 mL of Zeolites with room to spare for pumping and agitation.
I have an Apex auto change water system set up.
Concerns — I travel out of town for my sales job up to 3 days at a time, will this be an issue? I can ask my wife to do this for me, but will not be happy to. I have preloaded her 1 mL syringes in the past.
1. Gross water volume of your complete system (incl. sump etc.) - US gallons / UK gallons / liter — 100 L
2. Net water volume (incl. sump etc.) - US gallons / UK gallons / liter — 102 L
3. Are you using a CaCO2 reactor or other technique — water changes at this point, which is part of the issue creating imbalances, I will switch to 2 part system eventually.
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) — Deltec MCE300 Hang on back skimmer
8. What are your actual PO4 and NO3 levels — 0.02 PPM PO4 Hanna Phosphorus ULR and 25 ppm NO3
9. What are your actual Ca, Alk and Mg levels — Calcium is unusually high, but I believe my Salifert test is off. 480 PPM, Alkalinity is 7.3 dKH, Magnesium I don’t test for yet.
10. What filtration method do you use (refugium, DSB, Miracle Mud, etc.) — Sand is 3 cm, I have 8 pieces of 5 cm^3 ceramic media in the lower sump area,
11. Type of light (Watt, color temp, how old, etc.) — EcoTech Radion, G4, very blue, 20kish, new.
12. What corals do you keep — SPS, and a couple LPS. I’d like to expand my LPS collection
13. Tissue color (light or dark) — richer colors, but some have lost their colors due to swinging nutrient parameters.
14. How long has the tank been running — since August.
15. Why do you want to use the ZEOvit system —
I want a systematic approach to reef keeping. I don’t want to fight strange unstable parameters. I know that’s tough in a 100 L tank, but it’s this practice tank that will grow into a bigger system.
16. Any supplemental dosing (type, amount, why —- MicroBacter7 and ZeoBak, I am fighting some nutrient imbalances, which testing shows I am low on phosphates by high on nitrates. Large Cell dinos and cyno are trying to persist.
17. Live rock (how much, how old, etc.). — about 15 lbs, well cured and established live rock.
18. Any present problems — mild chronic dinos or cyno. Losing some color in SPS.
19. Problem description (tissue loss tips, tissue loss base, diatom bloom, algae, etc.) — rusty stringy sand, no green hair alage
20. What test kit do you use (how old, recently switched, etc.) - Hanna and Salifert, Apex probes, all well calibrated and cared for.
21. Present dosing, amounts and intervals (ZEOvit, ZEObak, ZEOfood, ZEOstart, ZEOspur2, etc.) — 1 drop of ZeoBak per day.
22. Other water parameters and water stability (salinity, temp, etc.) 35 ppt, 80 degrees F
23. Which salt brand do you use — Tropic Marin ProReef
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