Nano fleece roller versus mini refugium?

[Ballyhoo]

This is my 30 gallon Red Sea nano reef tank. I've had it now for a year. The back sump area has an area for the nano fleece roller, which was an accessory item I purchased. the system came also w a little mini protein skimmer, and to the right of that in the sump is an area which you could put the standard 1.5 L plastic reservoir. Well I just purchased an auto ATO and used that saved space for a mini reactor. But the point of this post is, I just got this idea to remove the nano fleece roller as I don't see what good those things are when you can just change your filter floss or socks every 10 days or so. instead I removed the fleece roller and created small refugium. I'm just wondering what others think, is the nano fleece roller a more valuable or useful use of limited area of space than the mini refugium?

 

[Garf]

Smaller tanks are so much easier to do effective waterchanges on.

 

[Dread Pirate Dave]

You should change your socks/floss more often to avoid the waste breaking down. The roller mat is meant to help avoid that.

 

[Ballyhoo]

You should change your socks/floss more often to avoid the waste breaking down. The roller mat is meant to help avoid that.

so, for that reason, you think that fleece roller is more valuable than the little refugium?

 

[Dread Pirate Dave]

so, for that reason, you think that fleece roller is more valuable than the little refugium?

For me, with a nano tank, yes. I don't think the small refugium can pull out as much nutrient build up that a roller mat can prevent from happening.

 

[NeedAReef]

if you obsess about bare bottoms and "clean" then fleece will help with that a fuge will not. if you need to breed pods safely for certain types of fish the fuge will and the roller will not. made for different purposes is the point.