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02-18-2011, 12:46 PM
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Loook at that shot.. your dad could have won you photo of the month
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02-18-2011, 09:17 PM
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Brought the new toy home today, also there is more zeo stuff in my fridge than food HA
  So here is my plan. This weekend I have to leave town to go to edmonton (wish I could meet up with a couple of people but my time is tight) so getting fully started will have to wait. So when I come home sunday the skimmer is getting a vinegar bath due to slime build up, I am going to hunt down a timer for the reactor. I also need to find a scale to measure the amount ot stones that will be in the reactor. But here is my schedule: first month: 0.4L zeolite rocks (run on timer 3 hours on, 3 hours off) 1 drop zeoBac for the first 10 days than 1 drop every 2nd day 1 drop zeoStart3 x2 a day (morning and night) 1 drop zeoFood for the first 10 day than 1 drop every 2nd day, same time as zeoBac 1mL Coral snow per day 1mL Pohl xtra every second day 1 drop ammino acid per day 1 drop coral vitalizer per day Later on I am going to add in PS and SP. Also debating about B-balance or Zeozym down the road.
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02-19-2011, 04:43 PM
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Looking good so far. As for your zeo regiment I would hold off on the zeofood for the first 10 days or so. This will lessen the likely hood of a algae bloom. I rarely use it anymore and mostly just use the xtra. I would even go as far as suggesting just using the the bac, zeostart and spongepower (don't see it on your list) for the first 10 days or so. But that's just from my experience. Good luck !
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02-20-2011, 11:58 AM
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0.4L zeolite rocks (run on timer 3 hours on, 3 hours off) 1 drop zeoBac for the first 10 days than 1 drop every 2nd day 1 drop zeoStart3 x2 a day (morning and night) 1 drop zeoFood for the first 10 day than 1 drop every 2nd day, same time as zeoBac 1mL Coral snow per day 1mL Pohl xtra every second day 1 drop ammino acid per day 1 drop coral vitalizer per day Later on I am going to add in PS and SP. Also debating about B-balance or Zeozym down the road.[/quote] Is this what's recommended to start for additives? I'm already running the rocks and have noticed a difference, looking into a dosing schedule.
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02-20-2011, 03:51 PM
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Well off today to look like a drug dealer, need to go buy a scale to measure my stones. Since the bag I purchased was in Kg I had to figure out how much to run since all my calculations were in L.
So zeolites have a density of 0.85g/cm3 and the conversion for cm3=mL is 1cm3=1mL So I am going to run 500g of zeolite in this system umm school is paying off Quote:
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02-20-2011, 10:10 PM
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Sure I could give you some suggestions from the different experiences I've had with zeo. This time around though since I redid my rocks I'm running a hybrid regiment using zeo & N/P biopellets. Seems to be working Ok so far. On the subject of skimmers I would probably try a Bubble Magnus though I have a brand new Vertex alpha 200 cone skimmer in the box that I'm going to try. Like you I want to try a cone skimmer and see how it goes.
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03-08-2011, 09:24 PM
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Well giving this tank till july to bounce back. Sell the tank but keep the new skimmer, pump and zeo and start over with a larger system.
Plus I regret going zeo. Might be away for 3 week next christmas so finding someone to crash at my place will be an issue
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03-10-2011, 07:05 AM
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So it has been a stressful couple of weeks with my tank. Honestly it drove me into depression so the zeo had to go. To be honest I think I overdosing a tad bit to much.
So after shutting down the zeo 2 days ago and doing 2 massive water changes things bounced back. My LPS started to look better, my chromis came out from hiding and polyp extension on my mille (the test subject) increased. So back to the drawing board... Flow in the tank was increased by 30x which puts the tank around 55x turnover with the nano 240 off and than 64x when the nano is on. I have it on a timer to variable flow. As for coral, looking into rarer paly's (purple death's, nuclear green's), florida ric's, and down the road I want to add pink birdsnest and some red planet once I know the system has become more stable. Lost most of my SPS during the zeo time frame but it was all frags from my 60gal so they are easily replaceable. On the note for a low nutrient system. I have been watching fencers thread on the Prodibio line. I am considering starting this in a few weeks and I really wish I looked into this system a bit more before going zeo. It fits my schedule and is alot less demanding. As for the sump, I now have a huge empty space and am looking for idea's. Might pick up more LR.
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