[Myka]

I can see where globaldesigns is coming from. I can see where the UV could help him (guessing here?) with his current setup. The bacteria that ZEObac puts into the water column should be colonizing the live rock and sand in much higher concentrations than the water column anyway, so using UV with ZEObac will inhibit it to a certain extent, but it definitely wouldn't compromise it to any huge extent provided the UV is turned off for awhile (I would guess that 2-3 hours would be sufficient, but I'm taking an "educated guess") just after dosing the ZEObac. I would bet that you could find people discussing this on the ZEOvit forums. This is the same philosophy that water changes during the cycle won't inhibit the cycle at all. [If you care to read more about that, I go over it in the cycling article in my signature.]

And he IS right, too many people think the book is the only way. Personally, I like to suggest "the book" method (haha) to newbies, so they have a base to start from that helps them along. I certainly don't follow the book all the time, but mostly I do because hey, it usually works. There is no way to expand knowledge if everyone is doing the exact same thing.

Albeit, I am far more closed-minded to things like keeping difficult species, which I think experimentation should be left to the pros where sucess is more likely.