Starting Zeovit - Having Cyano issues

[399 Reef]

I just started using Zeovit on my reef tank. Tank has approx. 100 gals total water. Tank has been cycled for nearly 3 months with live rock, several fish, cleanup crew etc.

I started the Zeovit system a couple weeks ago and used Zeolite rocks,zeobak, Zeofood, and Zeostart. I followed the dosage on the bottles.
5 drops each of zeobak & Zeofood. 1 ml of zeostart.

The zeobak started to smell and I read to stop using it, so I did and started using a new bottle a few days ago. In the past 4 days theres a definite red film on the tank sides and what looks to be dino on the gravel. Is this a normal process to go through?

My nitarates have been high so I’ve done 3 35 gal water changes.

I don’t want this stuff to get out of control, so any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[1WildBill]

https://saltwater-conversion.com/pages/zeovit
Have you read this page? Is your tank cycled? What rock did you use? Did you change the zeovit yet? (Every 6 weeks). That’s what reduces the ammonia and helps keep the bacteria stable. What reactor are you using? Need more info if you can, please.

 

[399 Reef]

https://saltwater-conversion.com/pages/zeovit
Have you read this page? Is your tank cycled? What rock did you use?

Actually I just read it about an hour or so ago. I’m going to stop using the Zeofood and reduce my zeobak and zeostart to 2 drops and .5ml respectively. I’ll see if that helps. I originally read the zeo literature from the BRS website but this article is quite different.

As for the rock, I have 100Lbs of live Florida rock. It came with 8 clams, sponges, and 3 sea squirts living on it. I also have LPS brain corals and some very small SPS living in the rock.

I originally cycled the tank with Dr Tim bacteria and the marine pure in May. After it cycled I put the live rock in and let it cycle for 2 weeks before adding anything. I then added a clean up crew and 3 small fish.

I started the Zeovit as stated before 2 weeks ago but once the Zeobak started to smell I stopped. Just started again 4 days ago.

I got a bunch of frags which are in the tank now, which is why I’m concerned.

I’m running
Trigger Triton 34 sump
Omega 180i skimmer
Zeovit reactor approx 65gal/hr tapped off main
2 bricks marine pure
.5l zeo carbon in mesh bag
Iwaki MD55RLT 1100 gal/hr
2 T5 Blue Plus and Coral Plus
Kessil AP700
Neptune APEX
1 Gyre
2 Tunze Nanostreams

 

[399 Reef]

Actually I just read it about an hour or so ago. I’m going to stop using the Zeofood and reduce my zeobak and zeostart to 2 drops and .5ml respectively. I’ll see if that helps. I originally read the zeo literature from the BRS website but this article is quite different.

As for the rock, I have 100Lbs of live Florida rock. It came with 8 clams, sponges, and 3 sea squirts living on it. I also have LPS brain corals and some very small SPS living in the rock.

I originally cycled the tank with Dr Tim bacteria and the marine pure in May. After it cycled I put the live rock in and let it cycle for 2 weeks before adding anything. I then added a clean up crew and 3 small fish.

I started the Zeovit as stated before 2 weeks ago but once the Zeobak started to smell I stopped. Just started again 4 days ago.

I got a bunch of frags which are in the tank now, which is why I’m concerned.

I’m running
Trigger Triton 34 sump
Omega 180i skimmer
Zeovit reactor approx 65gal/hr tapped off main
2 bricks marine pure
.5l zeo carbon in mesh bag
Iwaki MD55RLT 1100 gal/hr
2 T5 Blue Plus and Coral Plus
Kessil AP700
Neptune APEX
1 Gyre
2 Tunze Nanostreams

Monzter 120 Reactor

 

[1WildBill]

See what reducing does and go from there.

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

I'm reluctant to give advice to people using black box methods like zeovit that I cannot tell what is being added to the aquarium.

That said, dinos are apparently a risk of low nutrient systems, and I'm not sure how (or if) zeovit gets around the issue.

IMO, the risk of dinos is a good enough reason to not try to keep ULNS systems.