What is your cleaning/water change routine and how long does it take you?

[duanes]

I try to do 30% every other day, on about 1500 gallons of tanks.
Because my system is semi-automatic, sending old water to the garden or lawn (except in winter), and all my tanks are on 3 sumps, in 3 bank systems of tanks, takes about 10 minutes per bank.

 

[Binge]

3 Tanks

1.5-2hrs a week (not bad realy since my 10 year old son hangs out with me while I do it so we talk the whole time)

Siphon to a floor drain then refill from washer hook ups ( I realy need a bigger hose to speed up the process )

125g
75 g
55g

I clean filters every 4-6 weeks (realy should do sooner but eh)

 

[esoxlucius]

About 8 hrs every week. 600, 300, 265, 125, 125, 75, 75, 55, 40, & 29 gallon tanks.

I thought you'd put your telephone number on then hoping to get lucky maybe, then i realised it's your tank sizes!!!! Haha

 

[flukekiller]

Wait a minute,, maybe that's what I'm doing wrong , you're supposed to change the water and clean the tank?


But seriously, I use a drip system so some siphoning which takes a few minutes and maybe 30 min max to wipe the glass down

 

[Frank Castle]

Siphon hose.

125g, 75g, 55g x2, 35g, 30g, 29g x4, 20g L, 10g

8-12 hours depending if I am vacuuming or just swapping out water, cleaning filter pad, and if i'm moving fish around or not

 

[tomojsg]

about 3 hours... wc & cleaning on all the tanks/setups...

 

[tomojsg]

Siphon hose.

125g, 75g, 55g x2, 35g, 30g, 29g x4, 20g L, 10g

8-12 hours depending if I am vacuuming or just swapping out water, cleaning filter pad, and if i'm moving fish around or not

8-12 hours... it doesnt even take me that long... lol...

 

[Frank Castle]

8-12 hours... it doesnt even take me that long... lol...

it is what it is lol I did a WC on 2 of my 29g fry tanks last night , but I had to separate and move fry according to size and species so it ended up taking a few hours for everything. Like I said, it depends how much work there is to actually be done. Siphoning out water and no vacuuming only takes about 30 minutes per tank , maybe less depending on size. I'm also very thorough and tedious with things too

 

[terrorG]

use a hyrdoponic pump connected to a hose with another smaler hose conected the otherend and use it like a hoover :$

the hose is massive so goes straight into the toilet
for reverse i poor hte shower into a bucket and connect it in revers 10mins for 200liter and 12 mins for 300liter
thats empty and toping up :$

 

[DN328]

Siphon hose.

125g, 75g, 55g x2, 35g, 30g, 29g x4, 20g L, 10g

8-12 hours depending if I am vacuuming or just swapping out water, cleaning filter pad, and if i'm moving fish around or not

Damn...are the fish paying you to clean their housing LOL ;-)