MY ZEOVIT 180 SPS

marvelousone · Nov 21, 2015

I am going to do a SPS only tank on zeovit. My tank is an acrylic 180 with a 65gal sump. It has a lifereef skimmer and ATi T5 light fixture. I do have a chiller but not sure if I need it yet. The stand is custom built by me. I actually built it for a friend. He was getting out of the hobby so I bought it from him.

marvelousone · Nov 21, 2015

marvelousone · Nov 21, 2015

I started the 14 day cycle. Dosing Zeobak, sponge power and zeostrat3

marvelousone · Nov 21, 2015

On day 4 diatom bloom in full force. Day 9 diatom bloom starting to go away. Have some hair algae on the rocks.

marvelousone · Nov 22, 2015

Today is day10 on zeovit. Still have brown algae. In goes 1 flame angel and some coral. Green, red and purple monticaps. Green and purple digitia. I broke my green slimmer so only a large piece will make it.

saltyfilmfolks · Nov 22, 2015

Pre cycled rock and new live sand?

marvelousone · Nov 23, 2015

saltyfilmfolks said:
Pre cycled rock and new live sand?

On Zeovit system the cycle is only 14days. On day 10 you can put 2 herbivore fish and hardy corals. You dose bacteria from day one and feed it. Diatom bloom and algae started on day 3.

trinity1012 · Nov 23, 2015

nice!

saltyfilmfolks · Nov 23, 2015

Thanks I'll have sit down and read the complete teqnique.
Beautiful scape.
Keep the updates coming especially over the next few months.
I'm sure many of us has never seen a zeo tank mature from scratch.

All the best and following along.

adhd_nerd · Nov 23, 2015

Nice. A tip, put the small gravel size zeo rocks into a mesh filter bag. They will eventually fall down and clog the holes in the zeo reactor.

marvelousone · Nov 23, 2015

trinity1012 said:
nice!

Thanks

marvelousone · Nov 23, 2015

saltyfilmfolks said:
Thanks I'll have sit down and read the complete teqnique.
Beautiful scape.
Keep the updates coming especially over the next few months.
I'm sure many of us has never seen a zeo tank mature from scratch.

All the best and following along.

Thanks I like the scape to I just cant wait till it is full of sps.

marvelousone · Nov 23, 2015

adhd_nerd said:
Nice. A tip, put the small gravel size zeo rocks into a mesh filter bag. They will eventually fall down and clog the holes in the zeo reactor.

Thanks for that. I have some now that is in the bottom that is messing with it pumping. I will do that when I change it out in two weeks.

marvelousone · Nov 23, 2015

Need more flow so adding eductors. Never used them but what I saw on a lfs tank I like them.

marvelousone · Nov 29, 2015

Put some new frags in tank today. They are still settling in Pink lemonade acro

Candlelight acro

Yellow tip acro

marvelousone · Dec 2, 2015

A little update. The brown dusty algae that is always on the glass is starting to go away. I wipe it off and it stays off for 4-5 hours which it would stay off for 30minutes. I notice the water is getting really clear. The colors from the coral are bright also. I am really liking it right now. The sand bed is not clean but it is not to bad. Couple more weeks and I going to get a sand shifting goby.

marvelousone · Dec 13, 2015

Today I changed out my zeolites stones. I replaced 60% of them since this is my first time to change them. I have lost so coral which I don't know why, Still trying to figure this out. I still have a brown algae all of my rocks.

saltyfilmfolks · Dec 13, 2015

Still following. What are the parameters like at this point?

marvelousone · Dec 13, 2015

po4 zero and no3 zero. using ati tester I need to get a different tester. The algae on the glass is now very light. I can go 3 days before I notice it on the glass. mg-1300, ca-410 and alk-7.2. I have to order a potassium tester. I have cut back on dosing zeostart to .6ml a day hoping it will help get rid on the algae on the rocks