Zeolite

[Jerry Smith]

Need some pros and cons of running zeo on an LPS dominant aquarium. I know a lot of people run them on SPS tank's, just seeing if I could run one on my tank

 

[Daniel@R2R Verified Admin]

I probably wouldn't run zeo on an LPS system bc those are usually ULN systems and LPS thrive better in nutrients.

 

[ksfulk]

You could "probably" run it at 1/3 of the strength and then tinker with the dosage to reduce the nutrients but not too much. I've been running Zeo for over a year and I have acans, blastos, wellso, etc but they dont grow as well or as fast as they would if the nutrient level was higher. ZeoVit is fairly aggressive in its nutrient uptake, and in a newly established tank, it might take a lot of trial and error to dial in the dosages.

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

Need some pros and cons of running zeo on an LPS dominant aquarium. I know a lot of people run them on SPS tank's, just seeing if I could run one on my tank

I can't see any advantage to using them on any system unless you carbon dose. The zeovit people use it as a place to grow bacteria when they carbon dose.

It's not going to be a significant nutrient export method from the simple action of binding a small amount of ammonia until it reaches capacity.

 

[Jerry Smith]

I'm running a ulns now with redseas no3po4x system, but for the research I have done it sounds like zeo would work better as it can feed the corals as well. But it's looking more like 6 in this hand and a half dozen in the other

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

FWIW, not many people with LPS target ULNS conditions.