my house reef (211 g.)

[iwan]

Originally posted by ps8411
Iwan or Simon,

Just recieved the BioDigest and Bioptium products from France today. My 175g tank is nearing the end of the rock curing process with Nitrates climbing up to 5 ppm. Have a DSB of about 3" right now and will increase it to 4" later this week....

Will begin adding BioDigest and Bioptium to tank in a few minutes. Do you guys recomend turning off my Skimmer now or it does it really right now at this early stage? ...Until I start using the ReefBooster when the tank is populated with more SPS frags....?

Any dosing methods you would like to share would be great...

TIA,

Scott
PS8411

Hi Scott

Take 2 ampoules for the first dosage.
I would use a month this dose and then go to an ampoule every two weeks. You don't have to turn the Skimmer off.
This is only necessary if you use ReefBooster.

[TryTheChi]

Hi Iwan

Did you get my PM?

Thanks

Simon

[robthorn]

iwan what a beautiful aquarium you have .
I have not seen what circulation pump or pumps you are using. do you mind sharing this info?
thanks,
robert

[iwan]

Hi Robert,

thank's a lot!
I use a Tunze stream 12'000 lt per hours and a noname pump 4000 lt per hours...That's it.

[robwsup]

PS8,
You only have to stop using your protein skimmer if dosing Reef Booster. It is not necessary with the other Prodibio products.

[tangblack]

Best to turn off skimmer for 15mins when doing reef booster,
I also would only use i/2 dose as full dose can cause algae if you dont have a low nutrient tank.

[robthorn]

robwsup were do you get the prodibio products in florida? I am also in florida but not sure where to purchase these products.

[robwsup]

PM me for details.

[ctreefer]

Iwan,
Beautiful tank you have there. I can only hope that my tank will someday look 1/10th as nice. Did you start with the Prodibio products right from the beginning on this system?

Also, just curious about costs in Switzerland, what are the prices for frags bought and sold amongst fellow reefkeepers? For example, how much would a 25mm frag of a blue tort or similar? Enough to Offset the monthly costs of maintaining your reef?

thanks

vince

[iwan]

I have not measured Prodibio out since the beginning. I have discovered the positive product only with the time.
Corals are very expensive in Switzerland.A little coral costs with the dealer 140 francs (90/110$) if I sell fragments, I take 20 euros for a fragment of about 50 mm. My hobby still costs me money. I can sell many fragments and I have certain support. But a hobby also may cost something.

[DorsalFin]

Beautiful tank !!!
I am currently setting up one a little bigger but don't think it will be that colorful as of it will be a Shark tank.

[robthorn]

iwan I am going to start the prodibio products soon. you list biofood and something else.
what I found listed was bio digest and reef booster. are these the 2 you use or is what you use something different?
robert

[iwan]

Originally posted by robthorn
iwan I am going to start the prodibio products soon. you list biofood and something else.
what I found listed was bio digest and reef booster. are these the 2 you use or is what you use something different?
robert

Hi Robert

I recommend you the following products:

BioDigest (Bacteria)
Bioptim (Bacterium food)
ReefBooster (amino acid, vitamines)

[tangblack]

try this link, info
prodibio

[TryTheChi]

Iwan - you have PM regarding making some $$ in the UK

(nothing to do with prodibio for the US zeo merchants watching)

Cheers

Simon

[tangblack]

exciting stuff at zeo land, mention prodibio and you get banned.

[melev]

Without opening a can of worms, I don't understand how people get banned for discussing various products. If you like one and it works for you, great. It isn't like you are coming over to my house and pouring it in my own tank, which would required a good beating.

[tangblack]

I think all the mods on zeo get free zeo so they are protecting their interest.
Cant see any bad posts. They just ban who they want.

[TryTheChi]

Originally posted by melev
It isn't like you are coming over to my house and pouring it in my own tank, which would required a good beating.

Lol - a good beating would get the message across Ouch.

I placed a reply overthere asking for examples where exactly those who had been banned had infringed the rules, as the mods would not reply to emails providing a reasonable (any)explination - but that whole post was deleted - true sensorship -(maybe its hosted in China? lol) and I can only conclude that there are significant ( comercial?) concerns about the obvious effectiveness of Prodi.

Its interesting to note that no prodi user started that thread, that agedsalt (banned from here) critisised prodi without explaining why, but most importantly the value of Zeo products in Iwan's method like AAHC CV PIF ZS2 etc were always refered to.

Well at least Iwan hasnt been banned, and this is Iwans thread here so I won't raise the zeo land 'purge' any more on this thread. If anyone wishes to asked questions regarding the issue please do PM me.

Cheers

Simon

[jnarowe]

I got a nasty-gram from an RC mod when I posted about the over-night shipping service I use to ship perishable foods. I figured that it would help lower costs of shipping frags since I have a flat rate that is often half the usual rate but the post was considered advertising. I turned an eBay seller onto it and he was really excited about it. Oh well...it will come out sometime!

[doody]

Sometimes the RC Gods go a little too far. If you post a thread asking the best place to buy a cheap power head, and I give you a link to a guys post in the selling forum who's selling one, it's ok. But If i need to know a way to get products shipped to me cheap and you reply with the name of a company its spam. If there's a sale on salt at petsmart, is it advertiseing? I think not. The mods need to really look at if someone's truely trying to push a product or if they're just helping fellow reefers. That's all i gotta say.

To everyone useing Iwans methods now, hows it going?

[doody]

Sometimes the RC Gods go a little too far. If you post a thread asking the best place to buy a cheap power head, and I give you a link to a guys post in the selling forum who's selling one, it's ok. But If i need to know a way to get products shipped to me cheap and you reply with the name of a company its spam. If there's a sale on salt at petsmart, is it advertiseing? I think not. The mods need to really look at if someone's truely trying to push a product or if they're just helping fellow reefers. That's all i gotta say.

To everyone useing Iwans methods now, howsthe results??

[Travis]

There is more to the thread over on the other site than people are mentioning here. This isn't the appropriate place to discuss it anyways. But I don't think people should be posting things here trying to skew the facts and make it sound the poster was banned for no reason at all. What is disappointing is that the other forum has decided to delete any thread with the Prodibio topic in it from now on. That I don't understand.

I hope this thread stays on the topic of Iwan's tank and Prodibio. I think there is a lot we can learn from this and I am really curious to see people's results after using Prodibio for a few months.

[tangblack]

But I don't think people should be posting things here trying to skew the facts and make it sound the poster was banned for no reason at all

The fact is that some posters have been banned for no reason at all as they were discussing prodibio. There are no skew facts at all.
Now they have locked the thread. It is all to do with significant commercial competition as prodibio is so much cheaper.

Iwan do you have any updated pics for us. I would love to see a full tank picture also showing your stand and lights.

[doody]

Yeah, more pics.