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[shrimpchips]

Why not?

[albert_dao]

Originally Posted by shrimpchips

Why not?

Because I don't buy into "stripped water" anecdotes. If he is currently a successful Zeovit user, his water will already be "stripped" or whatever ambiguous state the armchair elite would like to call it. In recent memory, I can recall a similar accusation pointed towards high efficiency skimmers. As we all know, current skimmer technology succeeds previous incarnations by a long shot. The result? Better, cleaner tanks with healthier livestock.

The key here is to keep things as stable as possible. Reducing supplementation of carbon sources or media beds will have a larger negative impact on a stable system than simply switching to water that should have been used to begin with.

Let's put it this way; don't fix what isn't broken, and this isn't broken

[shrimpchips]

Originally Posted by albert_dao

Because I don't buy into "stripped water" anecdotes. If he is currently a successful Zeovit user, his water will already be "stripped" or whatever ambiguous state the armchair elite would like to call it. In recent memory, I can recall a similar accusation pointed towards high efficiency skimmers. As we all know, current skimmer technology succeeds previous incarnations by a long shot. The result? Better, cleaner tanks with healthier livestock.

The key here is to keep things as stable as possible. Reducing supplementation of carbon sources or media beds will have a larger negative impact on a stable system than simply switching to water that should have been used to begin with.

Let's put it this way; don't fix what isn't broken, and this isn't broken

That's the issue here - it's not just reducing the supplementation of organic carbon or whatever other zeovit additives that is going to have the negative impact, but the sudden change in overall nutrient availability. You're going from a nutrient rich (tap water) to a nutrient poor (RO/DI) state before bacterial/skimmer/nutrient export processing. Like any balanced equation, if you take one term out (in this the extra nutrients in the water) you're going to have a deviation from equillibrium.

And, I'm quite active. I don't even own an arm chair.