TO fliter Sock or not to sock

[twomuch42004]

I really want to know every ones stance on this issue I my self do not have a filter sock and my water is not the super cleanest. But I am running allot of detritus into my refugium. I'm not sure was thinking about going back to a sock but that is allot of waste and bacteria good or bad trapped in there. What do you guys and gals run and y weigh in on this topic

 

[cymaster007]

I didnt used to when my sump had baffles. The new sump is so open i run a sock to keep food particles and snails from jamming up my pumps.

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[twomuch42004]

hey where you the guy running the projector at the meeting

 

[pgr11]

hey where you the guy running the projector at the meeting

Yeah that's him

 

[Surgical]

I do run a sock, and just from what i see that it can collect in a one or two week period, it seems to be trappin a lot of detritus that would otherwise be gettin trapped in my refugium/getting sucked back into the display. Mind you, this is just the die off from dead stuff on my new rocks, i dont even have anything else in my tank yet!

 

[twomuch42004]

yeah but you are also trapping the good stuff also

 

[Surgical]

Didnt really think of that, it seems like any good stuff would get killed in te impeller of the return pump anyway, or does that no matter, as long as it is in the tank? (I assume good stuff is pods and phytoplankton etc.)

 

[lovingacans]

Here's my theory... you run the sock until you can go a weeks without changing it.

 

[Demonkegman]

Here's my theory... you run the sock until you can go a weeks without changing it.

yeah I like this idea! Think I'm going to go back to the sock, just for a bit.. just to help the stuff building up for the past few months. then when i can get to the point, like yo said, where it's clean for a week. off with it.

 

[ep3n3wp]

Here's my theory... you run the sock until you can go a weeks without changing it.

I'm liking the way you think Sir!!!

Never thought of that...
Thanks for the advice I'm going to give it a try

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[lovingacans]

Wish I were there myself... I change mine out every three days... pain in the arse...

 

[watchguy123]

I change mine weekly. By the end of the week, the sock is too dirty to do much filtering. I think the water is just overflowing it by then. But too lazy to change it out any more frequently than that. Plus I refuse to wash the sock, too gross for me. Out with the old and in with the new and once a week is all the budget allows.

 

[wickedfish]

It eliminates floaty things in the water column. I don't use one, I count on my fancy pants skimmer to eat all that crap up.

I use socks for 3 reasons

1)
catching sand during a deep clean at the other side of the hose

2)
Catching any gfo after I add new stuff.

3) catching sps pests when I bomb my tank

 

[Six2seven]

I only use it when I'm going to stir things up. Otherwise no sock

 

[solitude127]

Sock for me. I change mine out every week or so. To me, if you don't run a sock, you have to vacuum your sump out more often.

 

[Mr. Plant]

Sock here, change out weekly,

 

[SchnitzelReef]

I don't run a sock. Buy it's kind of a pain cuz my sump gets detritus that builds up. I added 2 Koralias in my sump and now it just keeps the detritus in the water column till the skimmer sucks it out. Also noticed a lot mor growth in the fuge when I stopped running a sock.
I do throw a sock in once in a while to catch any crud floating around. Whenever I clean the tank, I'll throw a sock in.
If a sock is catching the bad stuff, it's catching the good stuff too.


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[twomuch42004]

I don't run one I have a circulation pump on the return side of my sump detritus is good for your fugue I also run mud so all that crud is in the fugue. I'm building my 125 reef next just getting ideas

 

[cymaster007]

hey where you the guy running the projector at the meeting

Yup-

I don't run one I have a circulation pump on the return side of my sump detritus is good for your fugue I also run mud so all that crud is in the fugue. I'm building my 125 reef next just getting ideas

If you have a good fuge and good flow across the sump chambers, I do not think you will need a sock. It becomes just another item you have to watch & maintain regularly.

 

[forty]

i like the idea of using a sock cause im able to visually see that its doing its job.. I dont enjoy buying socks all the time tho, i might take it off for a while and see what happens