Zeovit in a Nano (detailed update dec 5th)

[kwirky]

although I liked running rowaphos/phosban, I did not like the two little fishies phosban reactor. I was allways paranoid a hose would pop off and have water all over the basement floor. HOB filter's are nice and clean since there are no hoses. There's no sump so I have to keep my equipment minimalistic. So instead I'm going to buy a box of rubber gloves and daily throw on a glove to mix up the zeolites by hand in the HOB filter. There'll only be a cup of zeolites so i could just wiggle my fingers in there and that'd get the job done i think

As for the water changes affecting the trace concentrations, I don't know if that's such a big deal because the salt mix is putting the trace back in. The zeovit guide says that the water changes are in order to replenish trace elements, and not really to export nutrients. If needed, I could just increase my daily dosing of the 4 core supplements. I only need like a drop of each anyways.

I'm going in to Gold's today to see if they have the little starter bottles in stock. If the entire thing doesn't work, I'm only out 70 bucks or so. Not bad considering some of the other expenditures out there.

[christyf5]

Use a chopstick, lots of detritus really needs to be powered out of crevices and I don't think gentle currents will really stir it up.


As for the water changes, its not just the trace elements that need to be replenished. With zeovit, I do believe they actually want you to reduce your water change frequency/volume. Because you're adding all of the bacterial population, food for them and then whatever else (sorry I can't remember exactly what else you're supplementing with), you'd be disrupting those populations and their food source every time you did a water change.

I just can't see zeovit really benefitting you in this case and it would probably be a waste of money as you wouldn't see the results you were looking for.

Just my two cents

[Der_Iron_Chef]

Christy, why don't you think it would benefit him? Because it's such a smaller tank volume than those who generally use Zeovit? I'm on the steep Zeovit learning curve as well, so....just curious! What about a 55G? Does anyone think there's a realistic minimum tank volume to make Zeovit worthwhile?