MY ZEOVIT 180 SPS

[marvelousone]

I am going to do a SPS only tank on zeovit. My tank is an acrylic 180 with a 65gal sump. It has a lifereef skimmer and ATi T5 light fixture. I do have a chiller but not sure if I need it yet. The stand is custom built by me. I actually built it for a friend. He was getting out of the hobby so I bought it from him.

 

[marvelousone]

 

[marvelousone]

I started the 14 day cycle. Dosing Zeobak, sponge power and zeostrat3

 

[marvelousone]

On day 4 diatom bloom in full force. Day 9 diatom bloom starting to go away. Have some hair algae on the rocks.

 

[marvelousone]

Today is day10 on zeovit. Still have brown algae. In goes 1 flame angel and some coral. Green, red and purple monticaps. Green and purple digitia. I broke my green slimmer so only a large piece will make it.

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Pre cycled rock and new live sand?

 

[marvelousone]

Pre cycled rock and new live sand?

On Zeovit system the cycle is only 14days. On day 10 you can put 2 herbivore fish and hardy corals. You dose bacteria from day one and feed it. Diatom bloom and algae started on day 3.

 

[trinity1012]

nice!

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Thanks I'll have sit down and read the complete teqnique.
Beautiful scape.
Keep the updates coming especially over the next few months.
I'm sure many of us has never seen a zeo tank mature from scratch.

All the best and following along.

 

[adhd_nerd]

Nice. A tip, put the small gravel size zeo rocks into a mesh filter bag. They will eventually fall down and clog the holes in the zeo reactor.

 

[marvelousone]

nice!

Thanks

 

[marvelousone]

Thanks I'll have sit down and read the complete teqnique.
Beautiful scape.
Keep the updates coming especially over the next few months.
I'm sure many of us has never seen a zeo tank mature from scratch.

All the best and following along.

Thanks I like the scape to I just cant wait till it is full of sps.

 

[marvelousone]

Nice. A tip, put the small gravel size zeo rocks into a mesh filter bag. They will eventually fall down and clog the holes in the zeo reactor.

Thanks for that. I have some now that is in the bottom that is messing with it pumping. I will do that when I change it out in two weeks.

 

[marvelousone]

Need more flow so adding eductors. Never used them but what I saw on a lfs tank I like them.

 

[marvelousone]

Put some new frags in tank today. They are still settling in Pink lemonade acro Candlelight acro Yellow tip acro

 

[marvelousone]

A little update. The brown dusty algae that is always on the glass is starting to go away. I wipe it off and it stays off for 4-5 hours which it would stay off for 30minutes. I notice the water is getting really clear. The colors from the coral are bright also. I am really liking it right now. The sand bed is not clean but it is not to bad. Couple more weeks and I going to get a sand shifting goby.

 

[marvelousone]

Today I changed out my zeolites stones. I replaced 60% of them since this is my first time to change them. I have lost so coral which I don't know why, Still trying to figure this out. I still have a brown algae all of my rocks.

 

[saltyfilmfolks]

Still following. What are the parameters like at this point?

 

[marvelousone]

po4 zero and no3 zero. using ati tester I need to get a different tester. The algae on the glass is now very light. I can go 3 days before I notice it on the glass. mg-1300, ca-410 and alk-7.2. I have to order a potassium tester. I have cut back on dosing zeostart to .6ml a day hoping it will help get rid on the algae on the rocks

 

[marvelousone]

Just got a sailfert po4 tester. It reads zero. Anyone use sailfert tester for po4.