PRODBIO Started on my tank

[Myka]

Originally Posted by asmodeus

So just using the bio digest and bioptim what will just that do

IME it will improve the coral colors, not much more than that. However, the advertising claims it will lower nutrients. I haven't seen this effect myself. I've been using Biodigest and Bioptim for 10 months or so.

[mseepman]

At MACNA, I was watching one of the seminars and part of the discussion was Nutrients and ULNS...one of the comments was that shortly after starting Prodibio or Zeo or Fauna products like that, many aquarium owners increased their feeding for some unknown reason. Possibly because we were worried about starving the corals. I guess they noticed food was disappearing faster in their case study.
Funny how the human brain works but I wouldn't doubt that people did this for reasons they didn't even realize.

I'm on my first dose right now, but I took my numbers (they were way too high) and I will start to measure them every week for the next 3 months to see what happens.

[Myka]

My fish are darn near anorexic.

[toxic111]

I don't know if lowers things or not. But I do know I was having algae issues with test readings of undetectable (phos on a hanna reader was 0). After around 6mo of dosing I didn't have problems with algae any more.

My tank is doing better than it ever has, with no other changes. I never changed feeding habits or anything else except the dosing.

[daniella3d]

That's a bummer. I was going to switch to this from Brightwell in hope of getting a ULN. I have hair algae growing on my plugs and it is driving my nuts. It does not grow much elsewhere but it show that I do have some phosphates. Nitrates are very low, less than 2ppm.

So far after about 10 days of using Brightwell I have not seen any reduction of nutrients either. Maybe dosing a bit of vodka will help? How long are you supposed to be dosing with Probidio before seing any reduction in nitrates? I have not change my feeding habit.

Originally Posted by Myka

IME it will improve the coral colors, not much more than that. However, the advertising claims it will lower nutrients. I haven't seen this effect myself. I've been using Biodigest and Bioptim for 10 months or so.

[globaldesigns]

Originally Posted by toxic111

Shut down the gfo. Leave the carbon. I had better success when I stopped with the gfo. Been running it for over a year now

That is good to know, I removed my purigen last week, as I figured I didn't need it.