Brightwell Modified NeoZeo

[Crazyeyes]

Well it's pulling good and bad out, but it it maintaining the levels which in return keeps consistency which is key in this hobby. As far as this additive, it does is give us an low nutrience for hard corals, but don't add the mb7 while the skimmer is on. With more bacteria they help break down ammonia and complete the nitrogen cycle in the fish tank.

[recoiljpr]

NH4 (amm) - 0
NO2 (Nitrite) - 0
NO3 (Nitrate) - 5
P04 (Phos) - .03
Ca - 400
dKH - 9.1
PH - 8.5
Salinity - 1.026

I don't have any pics on my pc here at work, but I'll post some later tonight. All of my corals and other life are doing really well, no issues so far. I'm noticing excellent coralline grown in the tank for it being such a young tank. My pumps are about 40% covered with the stuff, and all of my rock is getting a good dusting of the stuff. I'm learning to have a love/hate relationship with it as I love it on my rocks, I hate it on the glass.

I recently added a MP40 to the tank and for a few days my corals were in a kind of state of "shock". They all pulled in their polyps and didn't really extend. But, starting Sunday or so they are now used to the current change and are back to extending their polyps.

I'm still dosing 5ml of MB7 and 5ml of the biofuel. I still have not started adding any other additives besides my 2 part.

My chaeto is still growing well, so I have not noticed the macro die off like others have noticed using this system. I think it's because I do feed a heck of a lot, so I still have enough nutrients to allow it to grow. I have not had any problem with cyano at all and any spots of HA I've seen have been smaller then quarter size. My fish and cuc usually get rid of it within a few days.

My wife wants me to get rid of the Neomeris annulata (Caterpillar weed)http://farm1.static.flickr.com/130/3...g?v=1169005651. It's growing very well in my system and my wife hates the way it looks. This isn't a typical nuisance alage but it is an algae (calcareous algae like halimeda). So in a way, I wonder if this is a sign I need to up my dosage of MB7 and biofuel? The chaeto & other macro alages are still growing well points to the fact I still have plenty of nutrients in my tank. What do yall think?

[DSAfanatic]

I too am running the Brightwells system. I use BF, MB7, Koral Color and aminos. I have a 90g and I dose 10ml BF, 20ml MB7, 1ml amino, and 20 drops of Koral Color each day. I didn't notice better colors until I started dosing the Koral and aminos.

Your chaeto is taking in nutrients all the time which is why it is still alive. The biofuel bonds to the nitrates and phosphates making them heavier which makes it be able to be skimmed out with a good skimmer. The chaeto isn't getting food for 3-5 hours after dosing the BF or until it gets skimmed out.

The biofuel is attaching itself to everything and will starve other bacterias. That is why the MB7 is good because it keeps from having a mono bacteria system.

What size tank do you have?

[recoiljpr]

I have a 65 gallon tank DSAfanatic.