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xoticlover 06-10-2016 05:41 AM

maybe DAVEJ can chime in on this. I know he vinegar doses and he has the most vibrant zoas and palys.

Wheelman76 06-10-2016 06:11 AM

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Originally Posted by xoticlover (Post 993280)
maybe DAVEJ can chime in on this. I know he vinegar doses and he has the most vibrant zoas and palys.



What lighting does Dave use ?

xoticlover 06-10-2016 07:20 AM

ATI T-5 and LED strip supplement

davej 06-10-2016 01:33 PM

Zoa colors fading from carbon dosing
 
Yup, I restarted dosing vinegar after giving up on bio pellets.

I have had no issues with my color on my zoas.

I dose acropower as well, maybe that is helping?

http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/2016...c9df7f3f5a.jpg

Animal-Chin 06-10-2016 06:39 PM

We have literally the same collection of Zoa's. I wonder if its the NOPOX vs Vinegar. NOPOX is a different compound of carbon. I'm thinking of not using NOPOX and switching to vinegar anyway. Vinegar is 2 bucks, NOPOX is 30...

davej 06-10-2016 08:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Wheelman76 (Post 993283)
What lighting does Dave use ?

Using a 6 bulb dimmable ATI with 4 blue plus, 1 coral plus and one giessman full actinic. As per your recommendation Jess. :)
Also have a reefbrite XHO full actinic as well.

Galizio 06-10-2016 09:51 PM

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Originally Posted by davej (Post 993288)
Yup, I restarted dosing vinegar after giving up on bio pellets.

I have had no issues with my color on my zoas.

I dose acropower as well, maybe that is helping?

http://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/2016...c9df7f3f5a.jpg



Nice collection davej... They look great


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Galizio 06-10-2016 09:54 PM

I use biofuel by brightwell, don't know if depends on what source of carbon you use, eventually mine are getting better but also lost some of them, the only thing I switched in the last few months was only the carbon dosing.
Actually since I took the kessil down and going all t5 they are doing better, but probably for some of them is a bit late.



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davej 06-10-2016 10:51 PM

Yes I really wanted to love my radions. But alas Zoas didn't. Lol
Doing much better under t5's.


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