By my count there are more than 20 Zeo additives available plus Zeo media and Zeo Filters. I am confused about which ones I should be using on my two month old 180 Zeo tank.
I am currently using:
ZeoBak "“ 7 drops 2x a week
Sponge Power "“ 7 drops a day
ZeoStart "“ 1.4 ml daily in two separate doses
Pohl's Xtra Special "“ 7 drops daily
BioMate "“ 7 drops 2x a week
ZeoLife "“ 1 capful (10 ml) 2x a week
K Balance "“ 1 ml daily (to keep potassium between 380-400 ppm)
ZeoZyme "“ used 1 tsp once to combat cyano growth on some Marco dryrock.
I also use 1.5 liters of Zeo stones and a ½ liter of Seachem Matrix GAC placed in a zeoreactor that I pump 10-15 times a day to release accumulated mulm and change every 30 days.
I have about 50 SPS frags in the tank "“ mostly spread out on the bottom. Most seem to be doing well. (2 or 3 have bleached "“ I moved them into the shade and am hoping they will recover). Transfers from my other tank have definitely brightened up considerably and I see lots of PE.
Fish = 3 juvenile yellow tangs, a juvy Purple Tang, and a yellow tail damsel, which seem to be getting along.
Plus generous snail CUC from Reef Cleaners.
Substrate/Rock Work
One inch of Eden coral sand substrate. About 150# of Marco Dry Rock. 2 small pieces of live rock. (I bought 20# of cured LR from Premium Aquatics but had to dump most of it because it was covered with nasty brown macroalgae and a weird green rod-like macro-algae that I have seen described as indestructible and the destroyer of tanks.) To help seed the tank, I stuck three of the coralline encrusted frag platforms from my older tank behind the rockwork of the new tank.
Filters, Lights, Circulation
Only other filtration is a SRO 3000INT which works great.
Lighting consists of 3 x 400 watt 20,000k Hamilton metal halides on magnetic ballasts. Too white for my tastes and will eventually make some changes there.
Also 4 x 80 watt T5s (Blue Plus, Purple Plus, Actinic, Royal Blue), which are not enough to offset to white light from the MHs.
Circulation: 2 x WP-40 pumps on opposite ends of the tank set on wavemaker function which my RKL controller turns on and off randomly for periods of up to an hour each. I just added a third WP-40 with the new variable speed function to blow over rocks showing cyano growth.
2 pumps (Eheim 3000 compacts) return water from sump through (1) chiller and (2) return overflow plumbing.
Water Parameters
I use KW to maintain Alk at 7.6, Calc at 425, Magnesium at 1400. Potassium is in the 380-400 range. Phosphate on Red Sea kit and Nitrate on API kit still show zero. (I have the Hanna Phosphate Checker and Salifert phosphate and nitrate kits on order to check those results.
Now doing weekly 10% water changes with Instant Ocean salt and RO/DI water.
So what other ZEO additives should I be considering using (if any) and why?
What Zeo products are you using that worked (or did not work) for you?
Thanks.
I am currently using:
ZeoBak "“ 7 drops 2x a week
Sponge Power "“ 7 drops a day
ZeoStart "“ 1.4 ml daily in two separate doses
Pohl's Xtra Special "“ 7 drops daily
BioMate "“ 7 drops 2x a week
ZeoLife "“ 1 capful (10 ml) 2x a week
K Balance "“ 1 ml daily (to keep potassium between 380-400 ppm)
ZeoZyme "“ used 1 tsp once to combat cyano growth on some Marco dryrock.
I also use 1.5 liters of Zeo stones and a ½ liter of Seachem Matrix GAC placed in a zeoreactor that I pump 10-15 times a day to release accumulated mulm and change every 30 days.
I have about 50 SPS frags in the tank "“ mostly spread out on the bottom. Most seem to be doing well. (2 or 3 have bleached "“ I moved them into the shade and am hoping they will recover). Transfers from my other tank have definitely brightened up considerably and I see lots of PE.
Fish = 3 juvenile yellow tangs, a juvy Purple Tang, and a yellow tail damsel, which seem to be getting along.
Plus generous snail CUC from Reef Cleaners.
Substrate/Rock Work
One inch of Eden coral sand substrate. About 150# of Marco Dry Rock. 2 small pieces of live rock. (I bought 20# of cured LR from Premium Aquatics but had to dump most of it because it was covered with nasty brown macroalgae and a weird green rod-like macro-algae that I have seen described as indestructible and the destroyer of tanks.) To help seed the tank, I stuck three of the coralline encrusted frag platforms from my older tank behind the rockwork of the new tank.
Filters, Lights, Circulation
Only other filtration is a SRO 3000INT which works great.
Lighting consists of 3 x 400 watt 20,000k Hamilton metal halides on magnetic ballasts. Too white for my tastes and will eventually make some changes there.
Also 4 x 80 watt T5s (Blue Plus, Purple Plus, Actinic, Royal Blue), which are not enough to offset to white light from the MHs.
Circulation: 2 x WP-40 pumps on opposite ends of the tank set on wavemaker function which my RKL controller turns on and off randomly for periods of up to an hour each. I just added a third WP-40 with the new variable speed function to blow over rocks showing cyano growth.
2 pumps (Eheim 3000 compacts) return water from sump through (1) chiller and (2) return overflow plumbing.
Water Parameters
I use KW to maintain Alk at 7.6, Calc at 425, Magnesium at 1400. Potassium is in the 380-400 range. Phosphate on Red Sea kit and Nitrate on API kit still show zero. (I have the Hanna Phosphate Checker and Salifert phosphate and nitrate kits on order to check those results.
Now doing weekly 10% water changes with Instant Ocean salt and RO/DI water.
So what other ZEO additives should I be considering using (if any) and why?
What Zeo products are you using that worked (or did not work) for you?
Thanks.
