I sacrifice sleep to maintain my tanks. usually about 1 hour per day and 3-4 on the weekends or when I need to do a water change.

My time has increased with a smaller tank. I used to spend 5 minutes per day feeding, and about 1 hours on weekends when I had the 230g. Now I spend about 20 minutes a day, and 2 hours on weekends.

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About 3-5 hours per week for me. Depending on how busy I am with Life. This winter I'm sure that will double though.

I spend about 4-5 hours a week.
Depends on the week, I offset my tanks, do half one weekend other half following weekend.

I spend an hour or so a day just scraping glass, picking up fallen frags, blowing off rock, topping up (our house is dreadfully hot) feeding and making up new food, and weekends a few hours doing water changes etc

How to balance life with reefing? Hmmm it just works out, I have 2 kids (15yr old and 3yr old) full time job and husband plus 5 of my own tanks, 2 at my Moms and 1 at work....My husband is a big help though with maintenance and is supportive of my addiction errr... hobby! I think it keeps my stress level down (which in turn makes his life MUCH easier!):lol:

20 minutes in the morning feeding the fish and inverts,an hour a week doing simple testing, an hour a day just simply nit-picking at detritus and cleaning up and vaccuming the sand,20 minute feeding them in the evening and an hour or two in the evening just watching them before the halides go off, in other words...alot lol:lol:

i spend an hour a week on water changes, couple minutes a day on feeding and quick glance over equipment and parameters on the profilux. on my days off at least an hour or so gazing into the glass and making grease marks on the glass from my forehead wondering if stuff has grown and whether i can frag it yet. when i designed this tank i tried to think of everything possible to make it low time maintenance. i wanted to spend the majority of my time enjoying it and fragging and so far things have worked out. i just wish there was an easy way to scrape coralline and i would be set

under a hour everyday plus a few hours over the weekend. but times that by 6 tanks

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i spend some ware around 3 to 4 hours a week on my tank, checking water quality, feeding, water changes,doseing and just plain staring.

Collin

There is away to scrape Coraline from glass. I use to spend an hour or more with a long handle scraper. I learned how to frag as the long handle scraper usually broke chunks off my favorite coals. Then Chin Lee told me about this scraper attachment and now it takes me about 5 minutes to scrape my 125G and my 180G.

Tom R

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