I've started doing some reading on zeovit. Since you are using vodka, I am assuming that you are not doing everything exactly as they say to do it. Are you using the vodka as a replacement for one of their solutions?. It all sounds very interesting but it seems that you are locked into buying everything from them if you choose to go that way.
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150 gal Custom. Born 5/7/07. 50gal, 29gal, 20gal Sumps. 30gal Frag Tank. ETSS 800 Skimmer, Deltec APF600 Skimmer. PFO Solaris Lighting on Display and Frag Tank
I have yet to see a Zeovit system "in the flesh", so I can't be sure if it's a good system or not. However, there are several things the raise red flags in my mind.
Very extraordinary claims are made about the system. Extremely rapid coral growth and so on. Yet if it worked that well people farming corals would rush to adopt it.
It is a very expensive system with a lot of their own products that you can only purchase from them.
The exact science behind the system is not clearly disclosed.
The method is very different for other methods commonly used.
So I'm a bit of a skeptic. Zeovit type systems could be the next major trend in reefs, and one should keep in mind that when reef systems were new to the hobby, there were a lot of skeptics there also, because a reef system was so radical compared to what was before.
I've started doing some reading on zeovit. Since you are using vodka, I am assuming that you are not doing everything exactly as they say to do it. Are you using the vodka as a replacement for one of their solutions?. It all sounds very interesting but it seems that you are locked into buying everything from them if you choose to go that way.
I do my own version of it. Zeostart is a carbon source, i don't know what it contains, it smell like vinegar. I use vodka instead, you can use sugar as well. I don't use many of their products. I just want to keep the nutrient levels to a minimum. I use their biophos2 for removing phosfate and that is an excellent product. I have tried stylo pocci glow, potassium/iodine and amino acid. Stylo pocci glow bring on realy bright colors on pink corals as Seriatophora hystrix. I change 20G of water 2 times per month with Tropic marin pro reef salt or Reef crystal and that is much better than many chemical preparations. I friend of mine have tryed Fauna Marins products http://www.faunamarin.de/eng/ instead and he says that a combination of ultra-clam and ultra-min S have bring out the colors on his corals really nice.
I have meet many who says that you must have nitrate if you want to keep acroporas and i say that is wrong, come over and look att my tank. Many of those people also says, to keep tridacna clams you must have a little bit nitrate, Wrong i have a tridacna who thrives in my tank. Good quality lightning, low nutriens, waterchanges and stable level of calcium, magnesium and Kh will take you far.
Is everyone in the reefkeeping hobby (except me) also a professional photographer, or does my digital camera really suck? I clicked on the link to the tank in Finland, and saw that it was skimmerless; that is quite interesting to say the least.
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