I am seeing good coral growth and coloring and attribute to the ZEOvit system. Using my Red Planet Acro as baseline which has its red color and green base back. The ORA Roscoe’s Blue Acro has nice blue base color back with nice green polyp coloring and growth. I did lose my Orange Hammer LPS coral which was my favorite coral. I believe I damaged it when I accidently bumped it with another coral which cause it to recede and have STN. My Frogspawn and Torch LPS corals are growing like crazy.

I am still having issues with nutrients (35.2 ppm Nitrates and 0.03 ppm Phosphates) but only one full month into using the ZEOvit rocks. I need to be patient with protocol. I changed the ZEOvit rocks in the reactor and will proceed with the ZEOvit protocol I have for my tank.

I am seeing green hair algae or cyno starting to take hold in more areas of tank with the maintained nutrient levels. I am looking into using AlgaeFix Marine as I am reading good things about it over at Reef Central.

I am seeing my Alkalinity needing to be dosed 10 to 20 ml daily to maintain the proper level even with dosing Kalkwasser as part of top off. Both calcium and magnesium are inline. Will need to continue to closely monitor to determine if change in tank. I did verify with a newer test kit to eliminate the test kit as the issue.

For some reason I started losing my Turbo Snail, Florida Turbo (Astraea tecta) about two weeks ago. Out of the 18 I had, I am down to eight. I am not sure why unless the ULNS has impact on them with not enough food for them to survive.

Changed GFO today as PO4 creeping up.

Changed 3 gallons of water today, blew off LR, sucked out some hair algae, and replaced the MJ 600 powerhead used for the carbon reactor which is making the rattling noise with a MJ 900 powerhead.

In addition, moved the Green Bird’s Nest Acro to the bottom of tank to help it with having too much light near the top, and glued the ORA Oregon Blue Tort Acro and ORA Roscoe’s Blue Acro to their new homes on the LR. The Green Bush Acro does not look like it is going to survive for some reason.

Tank Shot 2009-03-01

Tank Shots 2009-03-01

Tank Shot as of 2-13-2009

Tank Shot as of 2-13-2009

Cleaned both the MJ 600 (Carbon Reactor) and the MJ 400 (GFO Reactor) pumps for the reactors. The MJ 600 was making a rattling nose which was driving me crazy and I was hoping this would resolve it. It did not so I ordered a new Eheim 600 Compact Pump as they are suppose to be whisper quiet.

Changed the GFO in the TLF Reactor as notice algae starting to increase growth rate and Hanna Meter, which started using this week, indicated 0.08 ppm PO4. Used about 3 cups.

Changed the Carbon in the TLF Reactor. Used about 3 cups.