Tank Maintainence; how long do you spend per week?

[Westie]

Friday night, fish tank cleaning night. I got the 100g reef tank. Making the ro water and testing everything takes a couple hours. Next is the 135g fresh. 50% change there and in the 20g turtle tank too. Then its the 25g reef which, because of the testing takes about as long as the 100g. Could be longer if I need to change filters and cjean skimmers.

 

[David R]

I probably spend close to 4 hours, although when the big tank is up and running with a drip system hopefully it'll be less. Most of the time is taken up by waiting for my water barrel to refill and waiting for tanks to siphon.

 

[scalesandfins]

That's not exactly an option during the months when the temperature is well below 30F. I do use the water hose in the summer, so it takes far less time to fill up then, but it still takes a while to clean out to begin with.

have you tried using the washer connections? one is hot water.

 

[kingkarter]

It probley takes less then an hour for me b/c i only have 1 tank running atm

 

[Ancient_Fish_Master]

maintenance for me is on sundays and thursdays which take about 1 hour. longest part is cleaning my filter socks in my sump

 

[beex215]

i gave up and they have been swimming in a vast pile of poo that has been accumulating for years

 

[scalesandfins]

i gave up and they have been swimming in a vast pile of poo that has been accumulating for years

lol, what a horrible fish keeper

 

[cichlid2006]

About 30 minutes every 2 weeks for me. I only have the one tank so it is very quick and easy. The bit that takes the longest is scrubbing the algae off of the glass.

 

[Spiritofthesoul]

15~45mins every week.

Just vac the entire base and refill would take 15~20
Every 3 weeks, I clean my FX5 which would take up to 45 mins