ZEOvit/200G Build Journal - 34G Solana

[GreenSpottedPuffer]

Originally Posted by Jason McK

What is your current ZeoStart dosage? and what is your Net water volume?
are you adding amino acid and/or coral vitalizer

J

Net water volume is 140G

ZEO start is .5 ml twice a day. But I am doing more like .4 twice a day.

I am not adding AA or Coral vitalizer. Just the three basics.

[GreenSpottedPuffer]

Originally Posted by christyf5

I started slow with zeo as well and I have cyano. I just can't get rid of it. Damned stuff. Oh well, I just add it to the various other things that have plagued my tank over the years.

Hmmm...Ok. Did you have it before ZEO?

This is not stuff I can live with I have never really had it before (maybe just tiny bits that went away after water changes) and this is pretty bad. I mean its quite stringy on the sandbed. Then now to see it on rocks...

So weird...the corals look great but cyano all over. I can't decide if the tank looks good or not


I will take some pics tomorrow.

[Jason McK]

try just doing 0.5 once a day or 0.25 twice a day

J

[GreenSpottedPuffer]

Originally Posted by Jason McK

try just doing 0.5 once a day or 0.25 twice a day

J

Ok, sounds good.

By the way, I am also cycling the reactor 3 on, 3 off like advised. Don't know if thats relevant in any way.

[zazzoo]

its strange my tank was doing good till I wanted to lower my nitrates..
i tried this stuff called nitrate destroyer ... for about a week didnt notice much ... then the second week i noticed cyano bacteria and some stringy slim brown stuff ... on the sand and some of the rocks..... kinda like what you described too ... but instead of zeo im using nitrate destroyer ......
http://www.tailoredaquatics.com/index.html?a=0&d=63
i wonder how long its gonna be before the brown leaves my tank

[GreenSpottedPuffer]

^^ Yeah I was quite happy with my tank before ZEO and still happy but not happy about the cyano. It REALLY drives me nuts.

I still don't know if its the ZEO making my corals look nicer or if they would have looked this nice anyways. Before ZEO, the tank was starting to look pretty good on its own. So its hard to say what is going on exactly but I am pretty sure the cyano is from the ZEO because I have never had it before this.

[Jason McK]

It's all about promoting the bacteria you want to grow.

ZeoStart, ZeoFood, Coral Vitalizer, Amino Acids and a couple more products act as food for both corals and the bacteria. Cyano is a bacteria so you will be feeding it as well.

J

[BlueAbyss]

Hmm could this cyano bloom be part of a secondary cycle that a tank would undergo while the Zeo reactor matures?

[GreenSpottedPuffer]

Originally Posted by Jason McK

It's all about promoting the bacteria you want to grow.

ZeoStart, ZeoFood, Coral Vitalizer, Amino Acids and a couple more products act as food for both corals and the bacteria. Cyano is a bacteria so you will be feeding it as well.

J

Ok, so this is then something that I will always be feeding? Does that not mean it will be pretty hard to rid the tank of it?

Im not so sure that a trade off I can make.

[zazzoo]

yeah i dont know if it really is a trade off... but everyone i know or read that started zeo or something simular is doing very well... strange ....

http://www.tailoredaquatics.com/index.html?a=0&d=63 <------ i wonder if this stuff does the same thing ?