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ConnorG

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I am curiouser about this and was wondering if any one has started this? Does it reduce nitrates? What realy do you need? Just any info and experiments would be AWSOME! Thank you!
 
For what I understand, Zeovit is an UL nutrient system. Mean the Zeovit reactor will bring your Nitrate, phosphate down to 0. Then you have to buy/use their supplement products to feed your corals. To be able to make it work, you also have to bring your Alk down too. For me, a lot of work and money involve. Just my 0.2cents.
 
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90ct said:
For what I understand, Zeovit is a UL nutrient system. Mean the Zeovit reactor will bring your Nitrate, phosphate down to 0. Then you have use their supplement products to feed your corals. To be able to make it work, you also have to bring your Alk down too. For me, a lot of work and money involve. Just my 0.2cents.
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I agree. Seems counterintuitive to me. You remove all of the nutrients from the water. Then add it back in using Zeovit's expensive supplements.

Maybe it gives you complete control over what is in your tank?

I have seen great tanks run with biopellets and Zeovit. Like Nuacmon's 90, krzysztof tryc's tank, etc. But I have seen plenty of other tanks that are great that don't use it.

Before I made a complete decision on it, I would have to spend a lot of time researching.
 
i agree with 90ct. i have seen many amazing almost fake looking tanks running zeovit so it works if you got the money and patience. personally if your needing to control nitrates and phosphates look into carbon dosing, biopellets, gfo or a combination. they all work and are way less expensive to implement.
 
Most people use at least parts of the Zeo system to run biopellets and carbon dosing. It boosts the bacteria, so I understand the products that link directly to that.
 
I'm not having trouble keeping nitrates or phosphates low but I would like to increase my corals colors by keeping them at zero.
 
Give examples of what corals are not meeting coloration expectations and also recap your lighting ( brand, type, bulb age if not using LEDs ) again. While water quality can certainly have an effect on color but the lighting usually is the bigger culprit. Also what readings are you getting and what are you using to test with.
 
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I'm not having trouble keeping nitrates or phosphates low but I would like to increase my corals colors by keeping them at zero.
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If you keep Nitrate and Phosphate at 0, they'll starve and won't increase their colors at all. What you need to do is keep your Nitrate and Phosphate "close" to 0. Otherwise, with low nutrient in your tank, you need to feed your corals to help it color up:)
 
I never knew corals fed on that stuff! I guess you learn somthing new everyday!

Anyways here is what I am having problems with coloring up:
Hammer- just a light shade of tan with light green tips, befor the tank crash he was a deep tank and deep green tips. Now ever since he has been this way.

Crocea Clam- when I first got him he was a light floresent blue with a navy blue as its main color an now ever since I got him he is more of a tank color with floresent blue and green markings. He is open fully everyday and always looks gorgeouse just a different color. And night he goes back to his original colors? Why is this?

Superman monti- this is what I am most disappointed in. It never colored up like the picture even in high flow and moderate lighting.

Gorgonia- polyps are never extended for some odd reason? Leading up to the tank crash it's polyps were fully extended and now in much better water quality they don't come out all the way ever!

That's just to name a few, I haven't had the chance to add many sps because I want to make sure my tank is stable enough for it but here are the lighting specs:
75 gallon
2 150 watt metal halide lamps
Each bulb is a 14k pheonix bulb
2 14 watt actinic blue t5s in each fixture

Latest test results:
ph-8.0
Ammonia, Nitrite- 0
Nitrate-10
Phosphates-.53 Hanna checker
Kh- 8
Calcium- 460

In a week or 2 I will be switching to LED fixtures that are the same fixtures that Frost had at the swap. I will be hanging 2 of them inside a canopy I am building.
 
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Kyle T. said:
http://www.zeovit.com/forums/showthread.php?t=10354

Just skimmed over that because I had no idea what ZEOvit was. Seems like a good read to me, but more research would be good IMO.
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I totally agree on the research. And I intend on researching a lot before I make any decisions, I was just curiouser if any one on here had any experience and could give me some feedback on what they though.
 
Your Nitrate and Phosphate are high. Do a lot of water changes.
 
ConnorG said:
I totally agree on the research. And I intend on researching a lot before I make any decisions, I was just curiouser if any one on here had any experience and could give me some feedback on what they though.
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Research is nice. You can learn more from other hobbyists. But Zeovit system is not recommended for newbies. A lot of money, and knowledges involved. Most Zeovit systems are SPSs dominant. That's something you should keep in mind:beerchug:
 
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Zeovit is geared towards Acropora. You may find it counter productive to use it with your current coral stock.
 
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