Roller mats and pods

[DoctaReef]

So I was thinking the other day, as I dumped an order of Algae Barn 5280 pods in my sump next to my Red Sea ReefMat:

Does a roller/filter sock remove pods from an aquarium and work against you trying to create a healthy population?

 

[Fish Styx]

So I was thinking the other day, as I dumped an order of Algae Barn 5280 pods in my sump next to my Red Sea ReefMat:

Does a roller/filter sock remove pods from an aquarium and work against you trying to create a healthy population?

It would depend on the layout of your sump, but your rollermat should be the first stop for water entering from the overflow. In this regard, I'm gonna say no. You'll have breeding population in the sump and DT, so any pods captured in the rollermat would be negligible, at best and no different from a filter sock.

 

[ElementReefer]

Everything in your system is gonna go thru the roller mat eventually unless it’s too big to go through the weir or its benthic.

So yes, it’s gonna remove pods in the water column, but pods are usually benthic so it won’t matter.

 

[twentyleagues]

Simple answer is yes.
Pods will colonize many areas of the tank, If I look into my internal overflow from the side there is a large population of pods living there. If I had any mechanical filtration, I have no doubt they would be stuck in it. When I used filter socks in the past I would find all sorts of pods, bristleworms, brittle stars and such in them.

 

[alonsooro]

It would depend on the layout of your sump, but your rollermat should be the first stop for water entering from the overflow. In this regard, I'm gonna say no. You'll have breeding population in the sump and DT, so any pods captured in the rollermat would be negligible, at best and no different from a filter sock.

This is the best analogy, since a filter sock does the same thing. Many pods will be kept here, but you still have enough on other areas

 

[BigAl07]

Technically YES they can get filtered out but IMHO less than in Filter Socks and not enough to even take into account.

Filter socks, when we pull them from the tank we do it all at once. Whatever is in there (and there were a lot when I ran socks) gets removed from the system as whole. I would manually remove anything large enough to pick out and add it to the tank as a SNACK when running socks.

Roller Mat, moves up out of the water a pinch at a time. I would imagine "some/few" pods could wiggle around and get back into the water column but since they haven't had time to "Set Up Shop" in the new section of Roller Mat I don't think as MANY will be trapped as in a SOCK.

Even if all that get into the RM get removed I don't feel like it's a big deal in the least. The housing on my RedSea Roller Mat is colonized with oddles and oddles of Copepods and Isopods. For fun I will go down there late at night with a flashlight and it's mind blowing the sheer # of various "Pods" down there. It's a lot of fun to look at some of the "smaller inhabitants" of the tank down in the sump now and again.

This is just my uneducated "2 cents" and take it for what you paid for it