Have had a few problems along the way. The main one being that the water level in the tank would have to breach the bracing bars for the overflow to work correctly, needless to say the tank had to be stripped down and tunze overflow removed and was replaced with a custom acrylic weir, after playing around with it's positioning for about a week it is now almost perfect.
Tank was then refilled, sand and live rock added around the 13th June.
A few days later I spotted a couple of crabs in the tank that needed removed and could hear a clicking noise on and off (pistol or mantis shrimp), so decided to bait the tank in an attempt to remove crabs and shrimp. All I managed to catch was...
A quick post on a certain forum and found out that they are isopods (which I had suspected) but most likely parasitic isopods and I had caught a female with the trap which has likely released up to 30-young into the tank.
Options to progress are limited, bait the tank using live fish (something I would not consider doing), strip the whole tank and dump the sand, LR etc and start again (could be unlucky enough again to introduce them), posted on zeovit forum and they suggested overdosing the tank with zeospur2. So decided to give it a try, nothing to lose and everything to gain. It was this point that I decided to run the tank on the zeovit system.
Picked myself up a zeovit reactor and currently on day-9 of the 14-day cycle.
Zeospur2 did not eradicate the tank of isopods so will run the tank fish free until December.
and the scaping looks good too.
