I don't really have any before or after pictures, sorry.
To be honest the water zapped itself into this amazing clarity I couldn't even imagine, so quickly, that it literally caught me off guard. Like, I turned on the reactor one night, thought "I should get some pictures to do a before and after.. ah, it's late, I'll do it tomorrow." But "tomorrow" was too late. I was sitting there looking at my tank wondering what was wrong with my lights because they were noticeably brighter. Like they were suddenly being overdriven or something. Then I noticed my carpet tank had the same effect going on (it's a refugium style or satellite style tank run on the same sump). I finally realized, it wasn't the lights, it was the water.
I can show you some pictures of the frags I've got but without a context of a before and after, they don't really have a lot meaning to the spirit of this thread.
To be honest, to me the colours are just a happy bonus. Colours come from having nice pieces and reasonably well managed water quality, so colours will come anyhow. But having pieces grow because they are feeding on the bacteria that reduced the PO4 and NO3 .. that has a certain appeal to me. I feed my fish generously and wish to continue to do so as I feel that they are healthier that way, and this allows me to do more so. I mean I'm not going overboard, but it gives me a comfort margin. I have a CBB, for example, who only eats mysis, and grocery store bought food clams (mussels, Manilla, oysters, etc.). If I don't feed him what he eats, he doesn't eat. (He's already cleaned the tank of aiptasia.) I don't want to see him go without food, so I feed him a little mysis every day. Running Zeo allows me to do this without my NO3 and PO4 getting away on me.
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My next hobby will be flooding my basement while repeatedly banging my head against a brick wall and tearing up $100 bills. Whee!
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04-14-2008, 05:27 PM
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