ZEOvit/200G Build Journal - 34G Solana

[GreenSpottedPuffer]

Added some new sand the other day...ewwww!

[GreenSpottedPuffer]

Couple more corals I want to keep track of.

This one came to me in a trade very brown and dead on one side. The dead side is living again and the color is VERY slowly coming back. Looks like it may end up purple? What do you think? I have a feeling its going to be nice...



This is a large Long Tentacle Plate that seems to be happy. Not a great pic though, its much brighter in person. Its the only LPS I have in the tank so interesting to see how it responds to ZEOvit.



What about me?!? I was trying to get a good shot of my clowns in the mushrooms they are hosting but everytime I get the camera out, the big boys crowd around. I liked this one though...

[GreenSpottedPuffer]

And the real problem child of the tank. This Horn coral came to me very bright and has faded the past few months. It used to be bright green!

Any ideas? Someone told me I had it under too much light. It was directly under one of the 400 watt halides. I have since moved it. We'll see.

[BCOrchidGuy]

Thinking of the Zeo system but it sounds like to much work to me. The rocks need to be cleaned twice a day is that correct? I understand the 3 hours on 3 hours off part, for aerobic and anaerobic bacteria... easy peasy right?? Once things are established how often should you take measurments of everyting??? I'm trying to face up to the reality of how I do things and I don't want to get in over my head.

Douglas

[Delphinus]

It's really not that bad Doug. I had the same hesitations (note - I don't currently run Zeovit, but the reason isn't that it was too much work - and I plan for my new tank to be Zeovit from day 1, whenever it gets water in it that is). But anyhow, you feed your fish everyday right? You at least check on them once a day. Now add to that routine a couple pumps on a reactor handle (and .. it sounds silly but it's kind of fun) and maybe a little drip drip here or a drip drip there with some additives, and hey presto, you're done.

[FlamesFan]

Originally Posted by BCOrchidGuy

Thinking of the Zeo system but it sounds like to much work to me. The rocks need to be cleaned twice a day is that correct? I understand the 3 hours on 3 hours off part, for aerobic and anaerobic bacteria... easy peasy right?? Once things are established how often should you take measurments of everyting??? I'm trying to face up to the reality of how I do things and I don't want to get in over my head.

Douglas

No the rocks do not need to be cleaned daily. You simply aggitate them by pumping a handle up and down on the reactor once a day.

Also, a reactor is prefered but not required. Many people passively run the zeovit in a bag in their sump. Which is also agitated manually once a day.

[GreenSpottedPuffer]

So for all you experienced ZEO user out there, I have a question.

I am upgrading tanks. I have a 200G coming and will moving everything over. So now my reactor is too small...technically. Will it still be possible to use the 1.5L reactor or do I need to upgrade to a 3L. If it means an upgrade then I think this will already be the end of the road for my ZEO experiment. I would go back to a huge refugium instead. I just can't justify paying a bunch of money again for a new reactor.

Just curious.

[Jason McK]

Well IMO you should be OK. There are a lot of Zeo Users that have larger than 300G tanks and the largest reactor is 3L so you must be able to go a bit lower in volume

J