ZEOVit or not to ZEOvit?

[Myka]

I have hundreds of dollars of Zeovit stuff. I struggled with it for about 2 years. It all started when I purchased the Nano pack on sale. I moved up to using almost all of the additives, the Zeolite rocks, pretty much everything. It took twice daily manual dosing. Shake the rocks twice a day. Can't use GFO, chaeto, etc. I found it to be very finicky...dose a little too much of this and you get cyano, dose a bit too much of that and you get diatoms. I always found I was chasing one alga or another around trying to eliminate it by dosing a bit more of this, a bit less of that. However, the corals looked really good, and growth was good too.

I started working out of province again in February this year. For several months I had a tank maintenance guy coming to dose my tank everyday. This got really expensive, and he didn't understand the Zeo system very well (the average Joe will have no clue what the additives do), so there was more algae than usual. I finally tossed the towel on the Zeovit, put my GFO reactor back online, and HOLY NEON CORALS BATMAN! My tank really perked up when I put the GFO back online. I think that was part due to over-dosing some of the Zeo products (hence the more algae than usual), so the GFO really sucked the phosphate out, and got on top of the algae.

Now 4 months later, the only Zeo products I use are Coral Snow and Spur2.