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I make my own socks using felt or floss and they seem to have been good in my system.
How do you keep the water clear with all that particulate would it not be kind of a foggy effect? and leaving that detritus to buildup even if suspended in water column would it not start to rot and contribute to param spikes leading to higher dosing levels and more water changes and media needed? You must be removing it somehow.
I could see it working well for a coral only system but what about a few fish pooping in the mix especially a pig of a tang.
I agree. I didn't put a filter sock into my system because of this but ended up putting a sponge on my return pump because I got rid of my refugium and just have a sump with rock in it.i cant put sponges on my return pumps because I need all the copepods and amphipods in my refugium get pumped to my display tank... a sponge would trap them also there is small planktonic particles rasped off the macro algae that feed the corals
so I have to catch the crap before the refugium
and that is why we use floss or socks to remove the "rot" and reduce the compounds that cause po4 and the no's... natural seawater has nothing to do with what we do in a closed few gallons of water compared to the whole ocean and its natural process... if that's the way then we don't need protein skimmers bio pellets carbon or any other thing we use in our tanks....Eventually the detritus settles again just as it always does.... And the water is clear again usually quite quickly for me. If the detritus is actually a form of organic compound then it will eventually "rot" yes but this is nature and how natural seawater deals with them too. The tank will dissolve these compounds and form ions such as nitrite, nitrate, po4, etc
and that is why we use floss or socks to remove the "rot" and reduce the compounds that cause po4 and the no's... natural seawater has nothing to do with what we do in a closed few gallons of water compared to the whole ocean and its natural process... if that's the way then we don't need protein skimmers bio pellets carbon or any other thing we use in our tanks....
why not remove what we can so it don't rot in our limited water space I have no problem washing out a sock or filter rather than adding other methods to remove nitrates or phosphates just my opinion and it works for me
this post was intended to save a few bucks for the people that use socks not start another "refugium is wrong" thread