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10/07/2018, 10:34 PM | #1 |
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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, 09:00 AM | #2 |
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Hope that someone could help with this. Was about to ask the same thing as well.
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10/08/2018, 10:33 AM | #3 |
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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, 12:13 PM | #4 |
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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..
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10/08/2018, 12:34 PM | #5 |
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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 |
10/08/2018, 03:29 PM | #6 |
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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.
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