Hello,
I've been running Zeovit for the past 2 years with the hopes I would start to see colorful SPS corals and amazing growth. Basically all I've seen is money coming out of my pocket. Yes, it has resulted in 0 reading for PO4; however, my Nitrates have shown absolutely zero effect.
I just sent in a Triton NOC test as well to verify my results. They can be seen here: https://www.triton-lab.de/en/showroom/n-doc/11152 .
Tank Parameters:
120 Gallons of Tank Water
ZeoStart: 1ml/day via automatic doser .... just bumped this up to 2ml/day this month JUST to try something different
Zeobak: 3x/week at 5 drops each time .... bumped this up to 7 drops the past couple months ... again just to try something different.
Coral Vitalizer: 2x/week 10 drops each time
ZeoFood: 2x/week 5 drops each time ... actually stopped this all together for about 3 months at one point which no effect one way or another
SpongePower: 3x/week 5 drops each time ... was recommended to do this instead of ZeoFood while nutrients were still high (but again, no effect one way or another
Carbon: 1 cup/exchanged each month
Zeolites: 1 bag ... however, for a couple months I experimented with using 2 bags (and of course, nutrients didn't go up or down).
I have kept the flow through the Zeovit reactor right at 100G/hour. However, in the last couple months I've also experemented with raising and lower this rate as well (but again, Nitrates stay at 17 and PO4 right at 0).
Also have battled small cyano blooms the entire 2 years using Zeovite. So a year ago I also started:
Zeozym: 1 spoon full/week with each water change.
A-Balance: 1ml/week right after each water change.
CyanoClean: 3x/week 10 drops each .... for the past 6 months I upped this to 10 drops 5 times a week (as again, no matter how little or much I dose it shows no effect on cyano ... its always still just present.
Finally, for the past 3 months now, in addition to the Zeovit I added back on my algae scrubber that I used BEFORE Zeovit and despite it growing hair algae like crazy I have seen no change in Nitrate up/down.
For the past 3 months I also upped my water change for 10G to 20G each week - but again, no change.
I've even went to the point of feeding my fish only 1x every other day...and once I went 4 days without feeding at all. In that amount of time my Nitrates did drop 1 point ... but I've never seen in lower than 12 (usually between 15-17).
I also ripped all sand out of the tank and have gone bottomless for the past year to help keep things clean.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm at the end of my rope and unless there is something I haven't tried I'm pretty sure I'm going to be pulling out of this hobby. I excepted with time and patience I would start to see this amazing colorful, fast growing coral reef...and instead I've just wasted thousands of dollars :-(.
I've been running Zeovit for the past 2 years with the hopes I would start to see colorful SPS corals and amazing growth. Basically all I've seen is money coming out of my pocket. Yes, it has resulted in 0 reading for PO4; however, my Nitrates have shown absolutely zero effect.
I just sent in a Triton NOC test as well to verify my results. They can be seen here: https://www.triton-lab.de/en/showroom/n-doc/11152 .
Tank Parameters:
120 Gallons of Tank Water
ZeoStart: 1ml/day via automatic doser .... just bumped this up to 2ml/day this month JUST to try something different
Zeobak: 3x/week at 5 drops each time .... bumped this up to 7 drops the past couple months ... again just to try something different.
Coral Vitalizer: 2x/week 10 drops each time
ZeoFood: 2x/week 5 drops each time ... actually stopped this all together for about 3 months at one point which no effect one way or another
SpongePower: 3x/week 5 drops each time ... was recommended to do this instead of ZeoFood while nutrients were still high (but again, no effect one way or another
Carbon: 1 cup/exchanged each month
Zeolites: 1 bag ... however, for a couple months I experimented with using 2 bags (and of course, nutrients didn't go up or down).
I have kept the flow through the Zeovit reactor right at 100G/hour. However, in the last couple months I've also experemented with raising and lower this rate as well (but again, Nitrates stay at 17 and PO4 right at 0).
Also have battled small cyano blooms the entire 2 years using Zeovite. So a year ago I also started:
Zeozym: 1 spoon full/week with each water change.
A-Balance: 1ml/week right after each water change.
CyanoClean: 3x/week 10 drops each .... for the past 6 months I upped this to 10 drops 5 times a week (as again, no matter how little or much I dose it shows no effect on cyano ... its always still just present.
Finally, for the past 3 months now, in addition to the Zeovit I added back on my algae scrubber that I used BEFORE Zeovit and despite it growing hair algae like crazy I have seen no change in Nitrate up/down.
For the past 3 months I also upped my water change for 10G to 20G each week - but again, no change.
I've even went to the point of feeding my fish only 1x every other day...and once I went 4 days without feeding at all. In that amount of time my Nitrates did drop 1 point ... but I've never seen in lower than 12 (usually between 15-17).
I also ripped all sand out of the tank and have gone bottomless for the past year to help keep things clean.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'm at the end of my rope and unless there is something I haven't tried I'm pretty sure I'm going to be pulling out of this hobby. I excepted with time and patience I would start to see this amazing colorful, fast growing coral reef...and instead I've just wasted thousands of dollars :-(.
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