Canister v.s. Copepods

So I was looking around the tank and was wondering...... I have an Eheim 2213 canister filter. Will this filter suck up and kill all my copepods?
I know it's better to have a sump/refugium etc but since I have neither the space or the funding for something like that right now do you think the canister will destroy the pod population?

 

No its nothing I would loose sleep over .

 

Ok cool. Thank you very much. I've been trying to keep the pod population up so something silly like a canister wiping them out would kill me!!

 

You find that a canister is a safe haven ofr pods. Its always dark and there is constant supply of nutrition flowing through it.

 

So, with that in mind, should I remove the white filter pad media and just keep the floss? How do I go about NOT killing them off when cleaning the filter?

 

I've held up on buying pods to put in my tank for this reason. I figured my canister would just suck them up in a few hours. I used to have tons of pods that I could see all over the glass and rocks, but then they were just gone. I assumed they got sucked up into my filter since I read that some people use mechanical filtration as a means of reducing their population when they get out of hand.

It would make sense that they would just inhabit the sponge (if you use one) inside the canister, but what happens when you have to clean the sponge?

 

Bump

 

I always get a ton of amphipods growing inside my filter sock. What I do when I am cleaning it is I flip it inside out and pick off as many of the amphipods as I can and put them into a cup of tank water. then I dump them back into the tank. Copepods are too small to do this with though.

 

Tnagster said it best and if there is anyone here to trust he is one of the best here. Bump for more replies but I think you are safe with your canister too. I have pods like mad in my tank and tangster has been a great help on many issues and knows his stuff. good luck with the pods they will come. You can buy some if you want to up the population.

 

No, no, no, I do consider his advice on-point!! My second question is what I'm having a bit of trouble with.
How do I not completely decimate my pod population when I clean the filter? Should I take the white filter pad and the little ceramic media out and just leave the floss so that it isn't a "filter" per se but a refuge for them??


AND if I do remove the ceramic (I think) media, do I have to do this slowly so as not to shock the tank by removing bacteria?