zeovit and how I dose it

Hemmdog · Jan 23, 2020

@ycnibrc So you said you aren’t running zeo rock anymore, does that mean you don’t have a zeo reactor online? If you are running this without a zeo reactor I’m very interested in starting this. I did order the kz amino acid concentrate, coral vitalizer, coral snow, and trace element 4 pack for non zeo systems. I wanted to try the brand out. It seems now that I could run the bacteria’s too without a zeo reactor though? Any thoughts are appreciated. Tank is a 90 gal, year and a half old tank on triton/Red Sea hybrid method with tropic marin pro salt.

sgrosenb · Jan 23, 2020

@ycnibrc or anyone else - my Nitrates and Phosphates are at ideal levels, but I'm trying to get more beneficial bacteria in my tank. Would dosing just Zeobak be acceptable, or do you need to use ZeoStart3, ZeoFood, etc as well? I'm hoping to just use the Zeobak, as I started with all dead rock and dead sand so I need more bacteria sources.

ycnibrc · Jan 23, 2020

sgrosenb said:
@ycnibrc or anyone else - my Nitrates and Phosphates are at ideal levels, but I'm trying to get more beneficial bacteria in my tank. Would dosing just Zeobak be acceptable, or do you need to use ZeoStart3, ZeoFood, etc as well? I'm hoping to just use the Zeobak, as I started with all dead rock and dead sand so I need more bacteria sources.

Zeobak and sponge power will be adequate for your tank.

ycnibrc · Jan 23, 2020

Since I don't do water change I decide to try the zeovit color system 1, 2 and 4. I already have the amino acid so I skip #3. Looking at the ingredients it contains mostly trace elements. I will update if any changes in my tank.

Since there is no zeovit forum on R2R I want to make this thread dedicated to zeovit q&a. I will try to my best of my ability to answer and if I needed help I will ask Alexander from the zeovit forum to chime in.

Silent · Jan 23, 2020

G. Alexander had possibly the most beautiful sps tank I have ever seen. He is the zeovit king.

ycnibrc · Jan 23, 2020

Silent said:
G. Alexander had possibly the most beautiful sps tank I have ever seen. He is the zeovit king.

Yes he help me out a lot and Jackie

toejam · Jan 24, 2020

Can you run this without the zeovit media and just use more zeostart3 for nutrient control?

ycnibrc · Jan 24, 2020

toejam said:
Can you run this without the zeovit media and just use more zeostart3 for nutrient control?

Yes u can each additive have their own use. U can chose what u need and dose it. However to get the full effect of zeovit color u need to go full zeovit.

Gdesquire · Jan 24, 2020

ycnibrc said:
I run a higher nutrients level. Instead of zero ulns I run my po4 0.1 and po3 10ppm.

Did you mean No3 at 10ppm?

ycnibrc · Jan 24, 2020

Gdesquire said:
Did you mean No3 at 10ppm?

Yes nitrate at 10ppm and phosphate at 0.1

toejam · Jan 25, 2020

Why did you stop using your avast reactor, did you replace it with something else?

ycnibrc · Jan 25, 2020

toejam said:
Why did you stop using your avast reactor, did you replace it with something else?

The design has flaw. The plate is very hard to remove because the little pebble got caught between the plate n the reactor body. It is loud and the spring get rusted even when I paint it. I replace it with the skimz large zeovit reactor

toejam · Jan 30, 2020

If you wanted to lower your nutrients say to zero what would you have to do, more zeostart3?

fcmatt · Jan 30, 2020

Wow! Only read 1st post so far and all I can say is wow!!!

ycnibrc · Jan 30, 2020

toejam said:
If you wanted to lower your nutrients say to zero what would you have to do, more zeostart3?

It doesn’t work like that. Zeostart3 only recommend at full dose anymore after that might hurt the fish. To reduce nutrients u need to know where is the source and reduce it example feeding, bio load , rodi water etc. u can get a better skimmer to extract organic waste and step up water change.

AZMSGT · Feb 4, 2020

Thanks for posting this, following along. I’m considering Zeovit on my tank. It’s about 5mo old.

ycnibrc · Feb 4, 2020

AZMSGT said:
Thanks for posting this, following along. I’m considering Zeovit on my tank. It’s about 5mo old.

Your welcome any question just post. There is no zeovit forum on R2R so I make this thread to help reefer with zeovit questions.

Tom Stevens · Mar 1, 2020

Hi, I am about to start a 180 g (220 total volume) SPS dominate Zeovit tank and I am looking for advice.

- What are the biggest mistakes newbies make and how to avoid them?
- What do you suggest to set up for success?
- One one think did you do that had the most success?

I have already purchased the Avast Marine vibe, 2L version. I plan on running Seachem Carbonmatix in a Bashsea reactor. I also purchased a Bashsea twisted Skimmer (because it looked so cool!). Sump is a Trigger CR44. Crystal Dynamics is the manufacturer and hoping it will ship sometime next week.

Current tank is a Waterbox 75.2 mixed. It is not a Zeovit tank. I have had moderate success. It looks great but I struggle with hair algae from time to time. I just started a Turf Scrubber on that system.

I attend SCMAS meetings pretty regularly so if you do as well, I would love to pick your brain on Zeovit.

Hemmdog · Mar 1, 2020

You don’t want carbon in a reactor for Zeovit and you want a Venturi skimmer like recommended from Zeovit.

Tom Stevens · Mar 1, 2020

Hemmdog said:
You don’t want carbon in a reactor for Zeovit and you want a Venturi skimmer like recommended from Zeovit.

Thank you Hemmdog. What is the difference between the skimmers? I thought they ran the same. Also, does running carbon in reactor make it too aggressive?

Looks like I already started off wrong