Zeovit + Bio Pellets

[Bblinks]

I run pellets with a nexreef reactor inconjunction with zeovit products. I dose zeobac, zeofood, b,k,spongepower, aminoacid, coral vitalizer, coralsnow. Man that's a lot of stuff... I do like the results that I have gotten from both systems, not that I can say it's got amazing growth like dez's tank but still pretty respectiable. I did played around with the system for a good 6 month before coming to this point. I was dosing 3 parts before I switched over to calcium reactor. I have finally stabilized my alk between 7 and 8, calcium around 420, and mag at 1350. IMO alk is very important when using probiotic system, it doesn't matter if you are running full zeo or biopellets or incunjunction. Keep it around 7 is very important. Anything higher will cause burnt tips or worth stn and rtn. When you get your system on cruise control for the big 3, I would test and dose potassium and iodine, potassium seems to get striped out of real quick by the pellets. Remember the key word is test. I rarely dose something I can't test unless it's a food source. Zeovit is a fairly tricky system, you can overdose quite easily. Watching your corals reaction to the additive is almost as important as feeding your fishes everyday.
If you would ask me the answer is YES. but make sure all your parameters are good, dose a source of bacteria like zeobak so you won't end up with a monostrain of bacteria, most importantly when dosing is to monitor the corals a day or two after the initial dosage and see how they react and go from there. The corals will tell you what you need to dose evert time. Lastly zeovit forum is a really good place to check out but don't mention that you are running pellets cause for some dame reason they do not like to mix the two together.

[doch]

One thing to consider is that the pellets will make sticky particles (I think they call it mulm) that does a very good job of gumming up the foam on your reactors. The mulm will feed your corals, and you may be able to position your pellet reactor in a way that it hits the display right off the bat, and does minimal damage to your filters, but it's something to consider. I found the pellets to be more of a pain than a benefit... for me at least.

One of the LFS tells me that all of their maintenance tanks get GFO no matter what they are running for nutrient reduction.