RedSea or Zeovit

Osiel Alvarado · Oct 21, 2016

Started a new tank. New at reefing and am wondering which program I should use? Any tips? Concerns? Thank you.

FishOfHex · Oct 23, 2016

I have used both on my reef and have posted several videos on my channel. To sum it up after four months of using kz I have gone back to redsea bc I didn't see any difference for the price. For more details check out the videos best of luck

Osiel Alvarado · Oct 23, 2016

Awesome! Thank you for the reply. Ill go check those videos out RIGHT NOW

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Osiel Alvarado · Oct 24, 2016

I just called their customer support for the use of their Reef Mature Pro Kit, it must say I'm very impressed. It rang 3 times and someone answered right away and was able to provide me with the info i need fast. Whole
Process took like 45 seconds. Lol awesome!

|sCRIBe| · Oct 30, 2016

I dose calc alk mag with redsea but I use most of the products Korallen-zucht makes and I like them all. Made in Germany always is good!

iLLwiLL · Oct 30, 2016

I did the full zeo program years ago with some decent results. I'm just now getting established with aquaforest and find it far easier and cheaper.

Ariton · Mar 26, 2017

iLLwiLL said:
I did the full zeo program years ago with some decent results. I'm just now getting established with aquaforest and find it far easier and cheaper.

how did you swich from zeovit to aquaforest, I got the reactor and some zeovit products but still thinking for aquaforest

rob safron · Apr 7, 2019

FishOfHex said:
I have used both on my reef and have posted several videos on my channel. To sum it up after four months of using kz I have gone back to redsea bc I didn't see any difference for the price. For more details check out the videos best of luck

I did see your video on Zeovit. I converted over just a short 3.5 weeks to Zeovit. Prior to changing I just used a skimmer and very small refugium with literally a softball sized peice of Cheato. It never grew much over a year. With heavy feeding my nitrates stayed at 2.5 and phosphates 0.0-0.02 always. I had no algae in my display tank. Today my nitrates are up to 10 and phosphates are at 0.05. I have green hair algae popping up throughout my tank as well as the cyno that just won’t let up. My corals look good. Yes I have a 7 stage RODI and always measure 0 TDS as well as I have it checked with ICP 4 times a year. All I am dosing is Zeobak x 4 with ZS, Zeostart 0.8 per day and 4 drops SP per day. Have now added Biofil and Zeozyme 3 times a week. I am feeding way less than I did prior to the switch. Did you experience an increase in nutrients and algae growth when switching over? If so how long did it take to reduce? I’m sure I just have to be patient but would never have assumed switching a low nutrient system to Zeovit would cause a rise in nutrients and algae growth. I would love to hear if your beginning experience was like mine is.

|sCRIBe| · Apr 7, 2019

Zeobak x4 if you mean 4x a week is a lot. 1-2x a week is best. I’ve had two tank over a few years both full zeovit with reacotor and only use kz products. You might want to hold back a bit on the zeostart. Cyanoclean has always worked for me to get rid of it and preventative. A very good resource for zeovit is the actually website, zeovit.com It’s dedicated to the process and they can def give you the best steps to take.

rob safron · Apr 7, 2019

It’s Zeobak 4 drops daily for 10 days after the Zeo stone change and then 2-3 times a week after. Just coming up on my first stone change and dosing 3 times per week. I may cut the start dosage back and see how that works. Seems like nutrients are rising with hair algae you would want to increase and not decrease dose. Used to dose vinegar in my past and increasing always lowered nutrients. I read and the the Zeovit web admins made it sound like ZB plus Snow is better than the cyno clean. Can certainly try it. There is not much response from folks on Zeovit.com besides the Admin and his 1 helper and they only seem to get on once per day during my night time over here. Other than those two, no other user ever respond or offer suggestions, I like hearing from lots of users.

|sCRIBe| · Apr 8, 2019

rob safron said:
It’s Zeobak 4 drops daily for 10 days after the Zeo stone change and then 2-3 times a week after. Just coming up on my first stone change and dosing 3 times per week. I may cut the start dosage back and see how that works. Seems like nutrients are rising with hair algae you would want to increase and not decrease dose. Used to dose vinegar in my past and increasing always lowered nutrients. I read and the the Zeovit web admins made it sound like ZB plus Snow is better than the cyno clean. Can certainly try it. There is not much response from folks on Zeovit.com besides the Admin and his 1 helper and they only seem to get on once per day during my night time over here. Other than those two, no other user ever respond or offer suggestions, I like hearing from lots of users.

Yea it is pretty much those two but I’ve taken their advice and it’s worked. I didn’t realize your still in the starting phase. I have used coral snow plus and and it worked great. I also used it with cyano clean and both work. I use cyano clean 1x weekly as preventative. I do recall getting gha at one point in a previous zeo tank and just letting it ride out letting the tank do it’s thing and it eventually slowly went away over the course of a couple months.