Is this hurting?

[fattyratrat]

Ive got a new 60 gallon reef, just got 50 lbs of live rock for it, and the feed to the sump goes through a fine filter sock with some filter media in it.. is this catching and killing off pods and such that i am trying to colonize?

thanks

[Lotus99]

Some pods will get caught in the filter sock.

If you're cycling, you could leave the sock off for a few days to help colonize the refugium. Do you have rock/sand/macroalgae in the sump already?

[Sk8r]

I don't use a filter sock or filter at all, for exactly that reason. Having an extended deep sandbed/refugium as part of your sump will help a lot with the pods.

[Achilles1208]

get rid of the filter sock

[acrodave]

I don't know most pods stay in the live rock and sand .So how many could possibly go to the top and get sucked down. I have the same kind or set up sock in the sump and i have a Mandarin that some would call obese

[stuccodude]

when i pull my sock off for cleaning if theres pods on it i put the sock in the display for a half hour so the pods jump off, ive ran no sock but my water is so much clearer when i run it

[fattyratrat]

thanks for the input!
The sock is in a temporary sump now until i can get my fuge built. with that i will probably split the intake water and split it into one filter sock and one not filtered, to save the pods, and run chemical/mechanical filtration on the other split.

[rick12]

can someone explain the "pods"?
1. what are they
2. what do they look like
3. what are the benefits for the reef tank
thanks

[acrodave]

copepods and amphipods hard to tell you what they look like but you can Google them and yes they are good for a tank they eat diatoms and fish eat them

[rick12]

thanks acrodave--i did as you suggested and wow! sure is alot of pics avail on google. also looking at one of those cpr refugiums that hang on the tank--they look interesting--