ZEOvitANZ Posted June 15, 2005 Report Share Posted June 15, 2005 Latest tank of the month on Reef Central using zeovit. http://reefkeeping.com/issues/2005-06/totm/index.htm Go you good thing !! Brendan Zeovit New Zealand Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lduncan Posted June 15, 2005 Report Share Posted June 15, 2005 I think it's kind of an average looking tank. Nothing really impressive. Layton Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skuzza Posted June 16, 2005 Report Share Posted June 16, 2005 If that is the average why doesnt everyone here have the same or better.That is a nice tank. Room for coral to grow with a nice selection and not cramed.Very nice example i think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lduncan Posted June 16, 2005 Report Share Posted June 16, 2005 It's an average tank for "Tank of the Month". Last months one was a all time low I thought, too. There are better tanks in NZ. Maybe my standards are too high. Layton Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cookie extreme Posted June 16, 2005 Report Share Posted June 16, 2005 do you put your standards to use on your own tank? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lduncan Posted June 16, 2005 Report Share Posted June 16, 2005 do you put your standards to use on your own tank? When i have time. To tell you the truth, i think my tank looks like crap at the moment. It's been neglected the last few months because of uni and what not. Things have settled down a bit for a while. This week i've spent a lot of time cleaning, and trying to get it back into shape. Layton Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZEOvitANZ Posted June 16, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 16, 2005 Let us know when you make tank of the month Brendan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lduncan Posted June 16, 2005 Report Share Posted June 16, 2005 Hey, I'm just calling it like I see it. The tank doesn't stand out as being impressive to me. Even my own tank doesn't impress me at the moment. Layton Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reef Posted June 16, 2005 Report Share Posted June 16, 2005 Maybe you should use Zeovit Layton. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lduncan Posted June 16, 2005 Report Share Posted June 16, 2005 My corals don't like it. Layton Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duke Posted June 16, 2005 Report Share Posted June 16, 2005 I am also using Zeovit and could not be happier, hair alge gone and tank has never looked better. Cleaning is easier - less, and everthing is doing nicely. Great tank of the month, I would be very proud of this tank, also some of the cleanest looking tank I have seen are all use Zeovit. I know know 5 tanks just in AKL using this and everyone is pleased, seen them first hand. Arron Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lduncan Posted June 16, 2005 Report Share Posted June 16, 2005 That's great. Personally I wouldn't use it again though, especially reading what I have about the possible mechanisms it uses. Layton Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZEOvitANZ Posted June 16, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 16, 2005 Yes, you need a basic understanding of keeping a reef tank before using zeovit. Brendan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lduncan Posted June 16, 2005 Report Share Posted June 16, 2005 And you need and advanced understanding of reef tanks before deciding NOT to use zeovit. Don't really want to go through this again. To me, the method works, but is a micky duck way of going about achieving something. Read this for more insight on what the zeovit system is possibly doing: http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showt ... enumber=11 Layton Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deeveus Posted June 16, 2005 Report Share Posted June 16, 2005 Strange that someone would think that that tank is somehow average in any way shape or form no matter if its tank of the month or not, a tank like that is only something I could dream about. To me that tank is very impressive indeed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lduncan Posted June 16, 2005 Report Share Posted June 16, 2005 For what it's worth, I haven't been amazed by any of the tank of the months this year. It's just an averagely nice tank. There are thousands of tanks around like it. Layton Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reef Posted June 16, 2005 Report Share Posted June 16, 2005 Interesting , Good points by ldrhawke. Zeo is a very basic system that does work, I quess most people dont like all the secret behind it. and the coral losses, Most people who use zeo have success, but then there are many that wont admit that they have had huge coral losses. Many companies now also do zeolite which you can put in the filter, it does the same thing. The media even looks the same. My experiance so far which acids/zeolite dosing has been that everything starts ok then total wipeout of all my soft corals and a few acros. This has happen 3 times. My corals did start to look good, but no reduction in phostphates and nitrates. Then i have tested some tanks using zeo and phostphates are almost zeo insome and still hight in others. Like any product it has its pluses and minuses . Hopefully soon we will see a zeo tank from NZ on reefcentral in the next 20 years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZEOvitANZ Posted June 16, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 16, 2005 Coral loss's ??? The other zeolites are not the same as zeovit, maybe thats why you have had coral deaths. Try not to put the other products in the same catorgary as zeovit please. How would you like it if i compared salifert test kits to say hagen test kits ? Or deltec to red sea ? Brendan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lduncan Posted June 17, 2005 Report Share Posted June 17, 2005 Coral loss's ??? You can't deny that people have had coral loses with this system. It is well documented, to the fact that it is now mentioned in the "zeoguide". Layton Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pies Posted June 17, 2005 Report Share Posted June 17, 2005 I've lots corals without zeovit No going to get invloved with the debate. However I did think that the TOTM this month was fairly ordanary. Although I wounder if the photography was as much to blame as anything, I suspect the tank looks nicer than the pictures reveal. The reefslides was good though, some stunners in there. Pie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reef Posted June 17, 2005 Report Share Posted June 17, 2005 The other zeolites are not the same as zeovit, maybe thats why you have had coral deaths. yes you cant use any zeolite . But the Tunze zeolite for example looks identical, i suspect they come from the same place. Nothing special about zeovit zeolite just marketing speak. I doubt they are out there mining their own zeolite. End of the day how a tank looks is down to the skill level of the hobbyist. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZEOvitANZ Posted June 17, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 17, 2005 I have seen the Tunze zeolite and they only use one type of rock were zeovit has 3 different types. Try not to say it is the same stuff as it is not . And Tunze is more expensive. I suppose this zeovit tank is pretty ordinary as well http://216.55.183.207/forums/showthread.php?t=2341 Brendan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lduncan Posted June 17, 2005 Report Share Posted June 17, 2005 That tank is much more impressive. Also, i didn't say that the tank looked average because it uses zeovit. I it because it is average looking to me, zeovit or not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveA Posted June 17, 2005 Report Share Posted June 17, 2005 Very interesting. I went thru a phase of adding all sorts of crap to my tank but the only thing I now add, apart from food, is whatever comes out of my CA reactor and what goes in with a water change. Perhaps my corals could be more colourful, grow faster, be bigger, sing dixie, but they seem to be quite happy ignorantly getting on with their additive deprived lives. Steve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lduncan Posted June 17, 2005 Report Share Posted June 17, 2005 The other zeolites are not the same as zeovit, maybe thats why you have had coral deaths. Actually, that suggests that they work in the exact same way, and could potentially be from the same mine. This is the pitfall of the system. But the Tunze zeolite for example looks identical, i suspect they come from the same place. Nothing special about zeovit zeolite just marketing speak. The "specialness" of the zeovit zeolite more than likely comes from the contaminates it contains. If it was a pure zeolite it would be white to transparent in colour. Anyone seen freshwater ammonia remover? That is zeolite. The greenish and orange tints in the zeovit stuff come from iron contaminants. It's these which are suspected to play a major part in how the system works. Zeovit zeolite is not unique. If korallen-zucht, can get it, tunze can get the exact same stuff. Layton Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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