Can I do a red slime treatment on a zeovit tank?

[danny zubot]

I'd like to know where anyone gets off telling people not to run a refugium if the are using Zeo. Both are used for nutrient export, but one costs way more money in the long term. Hmmm, I wonder if that has anything to do with it? No refugium = more Zeo = more money?

Tell me to shut up if this is a stupid conspiracy theory.

[Brent F]

The reason I was told not to run a refugium with zeovit is that the system wouldn't support the macroalgae since the zeovit would remove the nutrients the algae needs to grow.

The green hair algae in my RSM disproves that theory.

[Delphinus]

Exactly my thoughts about the patch of bryopsis I've found.

Those algaes are insidious though, they just find a way to live. Like how caulerpa only grows where you can't see it for example. If you don't know it's there you can't prune it.

[Slick Fork]

The theory I guess behind the no macro-algae suggestion is that it competes with the zeovit bacteria, and that if the zeovit bacteria can't thrive then the supplements you dose get gobbled up by things like cyano. It's explained better over at the zeo website. All I know for sure is that almost as soon as I quit trying to grow Chaeto in the same system that the zeo was running I saw a positive change.

Bryopsis is tenacious stuff, even the true die-hard zeoheads over on the zeo site won't claim that zeovit will handle it!