So, I've been keeping marine tanks for over 30 years. I've maintained LPS and soft corals for 20 years and recently become interested in keeping SPS. I currently have two display marine aquariums and one 40 gallon coral QT tank. I have a 220 gallon mixed reef that has been going for about 6 years. It's mostly LPS and Soft Corals with a handful of easy SPS. I use Tropic Marin products for mineral supplementation and nutrient control. It has worked very well for me and my aquarium inhabitants. I recently set up a new 150 gallon aquarium in my office in September of this year. I would like to go all SPS on the rock structures with a few LPS coral islands on the sand. I've been interested in the Zeovit System for many years and am ready to give it a go with this tank. I very much enjoy working on my aquariums every day so daily dosing, shaking the stones etc will not be bothersome. I currently maintain my minerals using Tropic Marin All For Reef on a Red Sea Dosing pump. I also dose Tropic Marin NP Bacto Balance daily for carbon dosing. In my sump I have fleece filter followed by a Tunze Skimmer & Algae Turf Scrubber. I also run UV 24/7. I plan on removing the Algae Turf Scrubber and only running the UV at night and possibly removing the UV all together once I'm comfortable with how the tank is going. I will replace the Tropic Marin All For Reef with Carbo Calcium and Magnesium so there are no additional additives going into the system. Obviously the Bacto Balance will be replaced by the KZ products. I also run Seachem Matrix Carbon passively and plan to continue to do so. I have a Zeovit Reactor I am customizing for the stones. I would prefer to run it at a reduced flow for the first 4-6 weeks rather than the on/off 3 hours method. My plan is to get everything up and running by the New Year. I will be starting a quarantine of several larger SPS frags for 45 days after the new year as well, adding them to the aquarium toward the end of February. Then I'll probably do nothing and just enjoy the progression of the reef for a long while. For my fish, I have a Moorish Idol, Convict Tang, Copper Band Butterfly, Pair of Mis-Bar Clown fish, Pair of Engineer Gobies, three Pajama Cardinals, one Bangai Cardinal, one fire fish goby, Balloon Molly and a Fiji Damsel. I also have a pair of cleaner shrimp, one Blood shrimp, Tiger tail Cucumber and a fighting conch. I feed pretty heavily 4-6 cubes a day and a sheet of Nori.
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1. Gross water volume of your complete system (incl. sump etc.) - US gallons / UK gallons / liter
170 gallons
2. Net water volume (incl. sump etc.) - US gallons / UK gallons / liter
150 gallons
3. Are you using a CaCO2 reactor or other technique
No
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
Yes
7. What skimmer are you using (type, rated water volume)
Tunze 9410DC
8. What are your actual PO4 and NO3 levels
P04 0.1 N03 3.6
9. What are your actual Ca, Alk and Mg levels
Ca 436 Alk 7.4 Mg 1410
10. What filtration method do you use (refugium, DSB, Miracle Mud, etc.)
Fleece Filter
11. Type of light (Watt, color temp, how old, etc.)
4-T5 lamps and Kessil AP700
12. What corals do you keep
LPS and SPS
13. Tissue color (light or dark)
Light
14. How long has the tank been running
3 Months
15. Why do you want to use the ZEOvit system
I like working on tank
16. Any supplemental dosing (type, amount, why, etc.)
TM Carbon Dosing
17. Live rock (how much, how old, etc.)
35 Lb. Live Gulf Rock and 80 Lb. Carib Sea Life Rock. Also 2" of Carib Sea Aragonite Sand
18. Any present problems
A small amount algae/diatom on sand. Newer tank so not concerned.
19. Problem description (tissue loss tips, tissue loss base, diatom bloom, algae, etc.)
Little receding tissue from base of Purple Stylo but looking good otherwise.
20. What test kit do you use (how old, recently switched, etc.)
Hanna ans Salfert
21. Present dosing, amounts and intervals (ZEOvit, ZEObak, ZEOfood, ZEOstart, ZEOspur2, etc.)
Sponge Power every other day
22. Other water parameters and water stability (salinity, temp, etc.)
Salinity 34 Temp 79 Ph 8-8.15
23. Which salt brand do you use
Tropic Marin Pro
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