Randy,
I read in one of your articles that in your tank you don't use filter socks, let detritus build in your sump, as well as have a large refugium. Also you use a little GFO if I recall correctly, as well as 20% water change per month. What are the chemical benefits of no filter socks, i.e. taking out the detritus before it can metabolize into phosphate, etc etc etc. Better for the corals, or the detritus is used by whatever you have growing in your refugium? Sorry if I oversimplified your husbandry and the chemistry above, but outside of water changes and dosing trace elements it seems similar to the Triton method, no?
Just trying to understand, thanks in advance!
I read in one of your articles that in your tank you don't use filter socks, let detritus build in your sump, as well as have a large refugium. Also you use a little GFO if I recall correctly, as well as 20% water change per month. What are the chemical benefits of no filter socks, i.e. taking out the detritus before it can metabolize into phosphate, etc etc etc. Better for the corals, or the detritus is used by whatever you have growing in your refugium? Sorry if I oversimplified your husbandry and the chemistry above, but outside of water changes and dosing trace elements it seems similar to the Triton method, no?
Just trying to understand, thanks in advance!