Hi, thanks for your reply.
Nice, You have really read some of this thread!!
My answer could take many hours!!
To answer some of your questions,
In the past 16 years I have used all kinds of methods for keeping reef animals. For me the best method would be the one who get the tank close to nature. I always look for answers there.
Now, I use all methods available to get as close as possible to a natural complete enviroment.
But I am also a human. I have preferences. This, I call beautiful and that not. Nature is completely neutral. My preferences are health, colors and delicate forms. So I tend to choose for them.
Zeo is a good method to regulate nutrient levels in water.
No more and no less. If someone thinks zeo is the answer to all problems I would have to say it is an instrument together with many others.
It gives me some of my preferences but I think it is not a very natural method. It tends to give a poorer biodiversity in time and that, I don't like. At first colors get better because of the nutrient export and the reefkeeper is very happy. But after some time the poor biodiversity can give all kinds of health problems in the tank. The reefkeeper can help to keep thing going but the biodiversity remains really low. I have also had this problem.
So now I use zeo to adjust to some of the preferences I have and I now strive for a big biodiversity. So I give all kinds of foods everywhere in the nutrient chain and have seen the biodiversity increase. This big biodiversity now cleans the water and this is more natural.
My corals are darker than in the zeo tanks but I still think they are beautiful enough and my corals are very healthy. Growth is enormous, No STN/RTN problems and my tank is very stable.
I think the special thing about my tank is that it is only 50G.
And this is a size available and affordable for many reefkeepers.
It has a very good rockscape, not yet seen in many tanks this size.
And it contains over 100 healthy growing SPS and more than 60 nano fish and other very beautiful nano animals.
I haven't talked about this yet in this section but nano animals are very beautiful and have lots of room to live in my tank.
So, in every corner of this tank something is going on and you just cannot see it all!!
To get a tank like this working and to keep all inhabitants healty is a real challenge!!
Grt,
Robertus.
Nice, You have really read some of this thread!!
My answer could take many hours!!
To answer some of your questions,
In the past 16 years I have used all kinds of methods for keeping reef animals. For me the best method would be the one who get the tank close to nature. I always look for answers there.
Now, I use all methods available to get as close as possible to a natural complete enviroment.
But I am also a human. I have preferences. This, I call beautiful and that not. Nature is completely neutral. My preferences are health, colors and delicate forms. So I tend to choose for them.
Zeo is a good method to regulate nutrient levels in water.
No more and no less. If someone thinks zeo is the answer to all problems I would have to say it is an instrument together with many others.
It gives me some of my preferences but I think it is not a very natural method. It tends to give a poorer biodiversity in time and that, I don't like. At first colors get better because of the nutrient export and the reefkeeper is very happy. But after some time the poor biodiversity can give all kinds of health problems in the tank. The reefkeeper can help to keep thing going but the biodiversity remains really low. I have also had this problem.
So now I use zeo to adjust to some of the preferences I have and I now strive for a big biodiversity. So I give all kinds of foods everywhere in the nutrient chain and have seen the biodiversity increase. This big biodiversity now cleans the water and this is more natural.
My corals are darker than in the zeo tanks but I still think they are beautiful enough and my corals are very healthy. Growth is enormous, No STN/RTN problems and my tank is very stable.
I think the special thing about my tank is that it is only 50G.
And this is a size available and affordable for many reefkeepers.
It has a very good rockscape, not yet seen in many tanks this size.
And it contains over 100 healthy growing SPS and more than 60 nano fish and other very beautiful nano animals.
I haven't talked about this yet in this section but nano animals are very beautiful and have lots of room to live in my tank.
So, in every corner of this tank something is going on and you just cannot see it all!!
To get a tank like this working and to keep all inhabitants healty is a real challenge!!
Grt,
Robertus.
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