ZeoVit users poll

[Der_Iron_Chef]

I started, but then stopped....mostly due to laziness *shame*...

But I will be starting again; I have the four basic components, and also K-Balance Strong and Coral Snow (the last two I've yet to use....).

I used it initially for about a month and a half, and didn't see any noticeable decrease in the algae film that seems to glaze my glass every few days or so. That was disappointing, so I marked "Jury is still out" on that account. Oddly, some of LPS starting responding amazingly to it...which was surprising. I guessing it was the mulm.

[Jason McK]

No shame in that.

I found a great routine for my dosing schedule.
In the Morning I go down to the tank
Dose
0.6ml Start2
Pump Reactor
Add 12ml Xtra
Add 12Ml B-Balance
add 12 drops Potassium Iodine
Every 3 days add 6ml Coral Snow
Check CA Reactor PH
Evening while feeding fish
Add 7 drops AAHC
Add 7 drops CV
every 3 days add 6 drops Bac
every 3 days add 3 drops Food7

It's a hard routine to get into but it allows me to also spend more time with the tank.

I have found adjusting your Start2 dosage will greatly improve you film algae build up.

J

[kwirky]

I worked zeovit dosing into my wake-up routine. I'm NOT a morning person so as soon as my alarm goes off I get up and zombie-shuffle over to the tank (it's in the same room) and start dosing the zeovit.

45g display + 30g sump (aprox 70 gallons considering rock displacement)

I dose the two part (calcium in tank, alk in overflow) 20mL each.
I dose 2 drops zeofood, zeobac each (zombie-shuffle to the fridge in the basement for the zeobac and CV)
I dose 0.4mL zeostart
I dose 3 drops amino acid concentrate, 3 drops Coral vitalizer

all the zeo products go straight into the tank. My remora skimmer doesn't remove jack anyways and it's now offline because of it.

By the time I'm done all the zombie-shuffling I'm mostly alert and the rest of my morning routine goes by quickly. Works better than the morning shower

I've dosed zeospur a total of 4 times in the past 2 months aproximately. it's STRONG stuff and I only use it when needed and when I know the corals are in tip top health. I've dosed it 25-50% the recommended ammount because the tank's only a few months old and I'm not confident it's healthy enough for a full dose.

[Delphinus]

Originally Posted by Jason McK

I have found adjusting your Start2 dosage will greatly improve you film algae build up.

Sorry - increasing Start2 or decreasing?

....

FWIW, here's my routine. I was doing more but I've cut back on non-essentials because I started having a few weird issues go on in the tank.

(100g of water in this particular system)

Morning:
- Dose 0.25-0.30 ("0.3 ish" minus whatever for the little air bubble in the syringe) Start2, direct into reactor
- Pump reactor 15 times
- Was dosing Coral Snow but stopped a few weeks ago.

Evening:
- Dose another 0.25-0.30 Start2 (direct into reactor)
- Dose 4 drops Zeobak (direct into reactor)
- Dose 4 drops Zeofood (direct into reactor)
- Pump reactor 15 times
- Was dosing 4 drops Sponge Power, 4 drops Coral Vitalizer, 4 drops SPS amino acids, 4 drops LPS amino acids, into display tank. Stopped about a month ago though, cyano started taking over.

I guess it's true what they say about older tanks though because it's weird but I started getting film algae worse after starting Zeo than I did before. Decided that since this is an older tank (6 years), that I shouldn't be so focused on tweaking with it though, instead will just continue on with basic 4 for now, and will resume focus on more Zeovit once again when I have a new setup running.

[digital-audiophile]

Tony,

When you say directly into the reactor, do you mean you take the lid off and put the drops right onto the zeolites? Or are you dosing in the water at the point of the pump on the reactor?

[Delphinus]

Sorry - "directly into the reactor pump intake" would be a "more better" accurate way of saying it. . I can't take credit for this idea, I'll assume it's an Albertism idea. Saw it at Gold Aquariums anyhow, that's where I got the idea. Put a standpipe on the pump intake with a T below the waterline, but the standpipe part comes out of the waterline. So water enters the reactor from the submerged end, but anything you drop into the standpipe has nowhere to go but inside the reactor.

[digital-audiophile]

Cool! I never even thought of that... I just drop my basic three on the waterline above the reactor pump, but this would work a lot better.

[albert_dao]

Originally Posted by Delphinus

Sorry - "directly into the reactor pump intake" would be a "more better" accurate way of saying it.

Yup, I'm gonna try to get it incorporated into reactors as a standard feature right soon here.

[Jason McK]

Originally Posted by Delphinus

Sorry - increasing Start2 or decreasing?

....

FWIW, here's my routine. I was doing more but I've cut back on non-essentials because I started having a few weird issues go on in the tank.

(100g of water in this particular system)

Morning:
- Dose 0.25-0.30 ("0.3 ish" minus whatever for the little air bubble in the syringe) Start2, direct into reactor
- Pump reactor 15 times
- Was dosing Coral Snow but stopped a few weeks ago.

Evening:
- Dose another 0.25-0.30 Start2 (direct into reactor)
- Dose 4 drops Zeobak (direct into reactor)
- Dose 4 drops Zeofood (direct into reactor)
- Pump reactor 15 times
- Was dosing 4 drops Sponge Power, 4 drops Coral Vitalizer, 4 drops SPS amino acids, 4 drops LPS amino acids, into display tank. Stopped about a month ago though, cyano started taking over.

I guess it's true what they say about older tanks though because it's weird but I started getting film algae worse after starting Zeo than I did before. Decided that since this is an older tank (6 years), that I shouldn't be so focused on tweaking with it though, instead will just continue on with basic 4 for now, and will resume focus on more Zeovit once again when I have a new setup running.

Decreasing Start2 will help. I then have slowly raised it back up. I also break my daily dosage into 2 0.6ml in the morning and 0.6ml in the evening

How often are you dosing ZeoBac and ZeoFood?

J

[Tyson]

I have been useing Zeovit for the past year with great results, just took everything down and sold the live stock so i could move at the end of June and then i can start the new 120+ project, most likely with zeo.