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Old 11-19-2009, 08:34 PM
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Default What is your daily, weekly and monthly maintenance routine?

I couldn't pull this up in a search so I thought I'd ask. Just curious what peoples daily, weekly and monthly reef/tank maintenance routines are?

Daily:

- Feed fish before lights out (9pm).
- Watch fish, corals, general tank inspection (is that boxfish stuck to the powerhead again?? What frags/colonies has that urchin knocked over now!? ).
- feed LPS corals with turkey baster (every 3 days)
- Clean glass (every 3 days)
- Refill auto top off reservoir (every 2 days).
- replace filter sock (every 3 days)
- Empty Skimmer cup (every 3 days)

Weekly:

- 17% water change (mixed two days prior)
- Mix new batch of Alk and Calc. solutions
- Wash all dirty filter socks from the week
- Test Alk. and Calc. (moving to every 2 weeks)

Monthly:

- Change out GFO and Carbon in Phosbans.

Infrequently:

- Test, Mix and dose magnesium
- clean live rock with turkey baster
- clean salt creep in various places
- clean out pumps
- scrape coraline

Automated:

- daily fresh water auto top off
- hourly Alk and Calc dosing
- RO/DI made when need (stored in 50g drum)
- Parameters (Salinity, pH, Orp, Temp) measured via probes and displayed on display panel + emailed to iPhone every 4 hours.

Last edited by kien; 11-20-2009 at 04:19 PM.
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