I started doing no water changes before I knew there was a triton method. Once I found out what it was, much of what I was already doing was covered in the method. Like John, I only use socks when I’m cleaning the tank. My fuge was the first chamber in my sump because I wanted it to have the largest volume of water. My skimmer was oversized for my system but I eventually took it out because I wasn’t seeing anything beneficial from it. I dosed trace elements based off of ca uptake. If ICP testing was more affordable I would have done that too. As it was, I did not and felt like I was dosing a little blindly. I think the no socks and UV is so pods don’t get trapped or killed but only a small amount of pods are floating in the water column so there may be a different reason. I plan on running UV on my next tank but still no socks.