Pods & live marine food

[robmacy]

This question has baffled me since I started my reef over a year ago.

How do pods and other live marine organisms get from a refugium to the main display tank?

If they live in the fuge, don't they just remain there? And if not won't the die in the process of getting pumped through a return?

Hope someone can shed some light on this.

 

[reefD]

they have a life cycle and when they are young are like tiny tiny fleas that are too small for the pump to injure and they spread through out your system.

 

[Paintbug]

you will be surprised at how much, and what will grow through a pump. look at the inside of a pump. the blades dont chop through the water, they push the water through the plumbing. its almost like a cocoon of water. there will be some loss if the pods get close to the edge, but most go right through into the display.

 

[raaden]

The best way I have found is to keep a couple of very porous sponges in the fuge and pull one out every other day and swish around in the main tank