Reef Sock Troubles

[gmoney243]

So basically what I am concluding from what I've read here is that if I DONT run with the socks, I may have more pod reproduction and more algae growth? Is that why you say you use an algae scrubber? I already use a scrapper every few days, and I did seem to have a larger pod population a few months ago. I may try running without them for a bit, or since I have 2, maybe just run 1 at a time.

no an algae scrubber is a filtration method where u grow lots of algae on screen to filter the water basically i use it instead of a skimmer and biopellets. and as bill said pod reproduction isnt affected by the socks pods spawn by the millions daily litteraly and mostly live in your rocks that u dont see. if your worried about not having enough pods try shinning a flashlight inside ur tank at night and see how many pods go running off looks like cockroaches. the reason i dont use socks is because as my water drains from my tank it runs directly onto my screen to be scrubbed and a filter sock dont fit long screen lol. i could if i wanted and if i do another tankill probably use filter socks and just use a dedicated pump for my scrubber since my sump does get some detritus build up. but i just syphon it out once a month with WCs.

 

[u1tranova]

lol. Algae scrubber...I was way off! Yea I do have a lot of pods that only wanna come out at night. Even with my socks running, I always have to syphon out excess detritus build up in the sump when I do WCs every 2 weeks. Im just going to keep running socks for now, get extra pair and clean the old ones. I might experiment running without them at a later time. Everything has been doing really well with the current setup, so I dont want to change just yet.