Zeovit SPS colours without using Zeovit or similar

[sahin]

Thought I'd ask in this forum. In your experiance, can you obtain awesome SPS colours without resorting to Zeovit or similar systems?

Can you run a good skimmer, GFO in a reactor, carbon and say largish (ie 20%) water changes a week to maintain low nutrients and get excellent SPS colours? -some dosing of trace elements allowable, like Strontium, Iodine, etc etc.

I am only asking this from the context of nutrients (not, lighting, flow etc - assume these are optimum).

 

[MrKite24]

I would think you should get excellent color and growth if you have all of those things. Along with the filtration you mentioned, I'd say the biggest thing would be the color of your bulbs. I recently switched to 20k bulbs and everything has gotten much more colorful compared to my previous 10k. My growth hasn't slowed much, either.

 

[zaheda]

There is some insane colour tanks on Rc without uning Zeovit. Bulbs yes but more important water quality and keeping your parametres stable.

 

[Shadowramy]

What do you mean by Zeovit SPS colors? If you are talking about a traditional pastel look that is with zeo? then yes but you would want to run T5 bulbs.

If you mean where corals have full lenght color (not just the tips), yes you can do that also through skimming and large frequent water changes with a good salt use Metal Haldies for and a higher alk (over 7) for deeper colors.

 

[fishypets]

What do you mean by Zeovit SPS colors? If you are talking about a traditional pastel look that is with zeo? then yes but you would want to run T5 bulbs.

Just because you run T5's doesn't mean you'll have "pastel" colors. I would say this is more related to the lack of nutrients.

 

[Shadowramy]

I am not saying running T5 will give you pastels, I am asking what he is meaning by Zeovit colors, and typical traditional zeovit tanks run a T5 combination which makes corals look very pastel looking, please refer to Iwan systems, even the zeovit banner shows pastels colors. Take a look of some of the DTOTM photos.

 

[Nate R]

sahin - you can get perfect color better than Zeo, Neo, Tio what ever you wanna call it tanks by using the natural method.

look aat a reef and think what do i need to do to recreate this enviroment. without the oil spills, and pestisides of course!

Good Lighting
Protein Skimming just enough not over skimming
healthy Refugium
good fish population
feed them good food (coral, fish)
Uv to keep fish healthy not over doing it
consistency and patience

 

[plyle02]

Low nutrient conditions and zeovits recommendations for running 10k temperature lighting is generally what causes the pastel appearance. I also chalk it up to running NSW values, combined with the other additives offered, creates normal reef conditions, and sps corals in their native waters generally do appear pastel in color, this is why most zeovit reefs appear that way, or why zeovit gets knocked for pastel colors.

Anyway, some really beautiful reefs come to mind that do not run zeovit, just check out many of the TOTM's... I have moved away from zeovit recently due to the time involved, traveling is also difficult to do with the daily dosing and pumping of the reactor, just became almost a full time job for me. Either way, you can simply run higher temperature bulbs, lets say a 20k radium and still have the zeo benefits with glowing colors that do not appear pastel, at least I did...
GL

 

[bogg]

Umm why not just try some of the zeo products?.

 

[Nate R]

Umm why not just try some of the zeo products?.

mother nature just knows best

 

[toothman]

I would recommend trying zeo spur 2, this is one of the most powerful zeo products, and is one of the least expensive. I have most of the zeo products and can say this one product will produce a 50% plus zeo look.

 

[fishypets]

mother nature just knows best

You won't find a skimmer, carbon, gfo, amino acids, etc,etc in mother nature but I bet you use at least one.

 

[Faisal1976us]

i would recommend trying zeo spur 2, this is one of the most powerful zeo products, and is one of the least expensive. I have most of the zeo products and can say this one product will produce a 50% plus zeo look.

+1

 

[borcu]

what is zeo spur 2 for? how it works?

 

[sahin]

what is zeo spur 2 for? how it works?

I believe ZeoSpur2 works by purging the zooanthelle out of the coral...essentially kicks out the algae inside hence the brown appearance diminishes.

 

[sahin]

Many thanks for everyones input. I am going to look at the past tanks of the month...I will probably not get into Zeo for the moment.

 

[Ian]

I would recommend trying zeo spur 2, this is one of the most powerful zeo products, and is one of the least expensive. I have most of the zeo products and can say this one product will produce a 50% plus zeo look.

I going to have to disagree on the use of Zeospur2, especially if you're not familiar with the ZEOvit method.

Ive known and read about many experienced reefkeepers experiencing RTN with the use of it...

 

[toothman]

This is a picture of my Ora pearlberry after addition of zeo spur 2.

It does purge about half of the zoos, and can be dangerous like Ian stated, I personally have not lost any corals from zeo spur.

Cali tort in same system.

 

[agsansoo]

Just make sure you don't dose zeo spur 2 if you have an anemone. This stuff will bleach them quick.

 

[Nate R]

You won't find a skimmer, carbon, gfo, amino acids, etc,etc in mother nature but I bet you use at least one.

Skimmer Carbon GFO not needed in ocean.

9999999999999999 Ba-Zillion gallons of water out there and the reef is less than 1% of that. imagine a protien getting washed away falling in a 20,000ft deep cravase in the ocean sub zero temp. gone!

amino acids - totally unnecessary. God doesn't dose, neither do I.