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View Poll Results: Do you use filter socks
Eww gross.. no! 4 2.82%
Not using them.. no. 63 44.37%
Yes 100 Micron 25 17.61%
Yes 200 Micron 47 33.10%
Yes 300 Micron 3 2.11%
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Old 02-10-2012, 10:36 PM
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Does it really seem that bad? Tell me you're not like those people that I work with who hate doing laundry so much that they wear the same pair of clothes for a week at a time...

When I take off a sock I turn it inside out to shake out some of the creatures caught inside. When I have 4 dirty ones I do a small load with a cup of bleach. Once its finished I turn the socks right side out again and give them a second rinse. When thats done I throw them into a stack to dry. Since I have 8 socks in total I don't get around to using them again for about a week. A single feeding of my moray and lion takes more effort than the whole sock cleaning process.

If I were you I'd just buy a few extras so that you can let them dry out completely before using them again.
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Old 02-10-2012, 10:56 PM
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Does it really seem that bad?
Someone who washes 3 socks daily isn't afraid of a little work. I didn't want to buy another 3 socks is all
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hate doing laundry so much that they wear the same pair of clothes for a week at a time...
Is that the same as not wearing underwear, and not because you're sexy?
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Brett, how often are you rinsing you socks with that new raceway?
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Brett, how often are you rinsing you socks with that new raceway?
All 3 socks daily lol.

I've been scrubbing and trimming algae off my new rock often and these socks clog fast with algae in the water.
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I will run mine for around a week. I tend to forget a lot.

I run them through the washer 2 at a time (I set it to low water line) and wash with warm water and bleach.

Once washed they soak in RO/Di with prime for a bit.
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