Coral booster effect on po4/no3?

Sam2832 · 10/07/2018, 10:34 PM

Hi does anyone used this product from zeovit and saw their p and n drop to 0?
It happend to me 2 weeks ago and this is the only product out of the ordinary i added.
Thanks

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BroodNash · 10/08/2018, 09:00 AM

Hope that someone could help with this. Was about to ask the same thing as well.

Sam2832 · 10/08/2018, 10:33 AM

Yeah, used the fw stop in the past with good results. This time i decided to try the two as the are suppose to work together.
My n is usually above 5 and my p at 0.02 at least, 2 weeks ago both were at 0 (hanna for p salifert for n), i stopped the dosing of cb and tested yesterday, the n are at 2 (red sea), 2.5 (salifert) and the p are at 0.04 (hanna), 0.08 (red sea). I restarted my rowa reactor to keep it near 0.02.

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mcgyvr · 10/08/2018, 12:13 PM

Not sure if anyone but the manufacturer knows whats in there..
Its certainly possible it could contain something that would feed bacteria like a carbon source thus give you equivalent results to carbon dosing..

Or its possible that its causing the corals to grow "better" thus increasing their intake of nitrates/phosphates..

As it doesn't seem to state anything about its effects as a nitrate/phosphate reducer on the bottles its unlikely that what you are seeing is an intentional effect of using the product..
If so a manufacturer would be stupid to not included that in the "marketing blurbs" about it..

Sam2832 · 10/08/2018, 12:34 PM

I dont see what else could have done that, i asked on the zeo forum but haven’t got answers.
I will wait for thing to stabilize and maybe dose 1/4 of the recommended dose (1 ml/2 days instead of 4) and see the results on n and p.

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bertoni · 10/08/2018, 03:29 PM

Without having any idea of what's in the product, I can't say much, unfortunately. It might have some organic carbon, as one random thought.

10/07/2018, 10:34 PM	#1
Sam2832 Registered Member Join Date: Aug 2013 Location: Montréal Posts: 79	Coral booster effect on po4/no3? Hi does anyone used this product from zeovit and saw their p and n drop to 0? It happend to me 2 weeks ago and this is the only product out of the ordinary i added. Thanks Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

10/08/2018, 12:13 PM	#4
mcgyvr Registered Member Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: North Carolina Posts: 20,050	Not sure if anyone but the manufacturer knows whats in there.. Its certainly possible it could contain something that would feed bacteria like a carbon source thus give you equivalent results to carbon dosing.. Or its possible that its causing the corals to grow "better" thus increasing their intake of nitrates/phosphates.. As it doesn't seem to state anything about its effects as a nitrate/phosphate reducer on the bottles its unlikely that what you are seeing is an intentional effect of using the product.. If so a manufacturer would be stupid to not included that in the "marketing blurbs" about it.. __________________ Who me?

10/08/2018, 03:29 PM	#6
bertoni RC Mod Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Mountain View, CA, USA Posts: 88,616	Without having any idea of what's in the product, I can't say much, unfortunately. It might have some organic carbon, as one random thought. __________________ Jonathan Bertoni

10/08/2018, 09:00 AM	#2
BroodNash Registered Member Join Date: Oct 2018 Location: Tampa, Florida Posts: 7	Hope that someone could help with this. Was about to ask the same thing as well.

10/08/2018, 10:33 AM	#3
Sam2832 Registered Member Join Date: Aug 2013 Location: Montréal Posts: 79	Yeah, used the fw stop in the past with good results. This time i decided to try the two as the are suppose to work together. My n is usually above 5 and my p at 0.02 at least, 2 weeks ago both were at 0 (hanna for p salifert for n), i stopped the dosing of cb and tested yesterday, the n are at 2 (red sea), 2.5 (salifert) and the p are at 0.04 (hanna), 0.08 (red sea). I restarted my rowa reactor to keep it near 0.02. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

10/08/2018, 12:34 PM	#5
Sam2832 Registered Member Join Date: Aug 2013 Location: Montréal Posts: 79	I dont see what else could have done that, i asked on the zeo forum but haven’t got answers. I will wait for thing to stabilize and maybe dose 1/4 of the recommended dose (1 ml/2 days instead of 4) and see the results on n and p. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk