What is your daily, weekly and monthly maintenance routine?

[shrimpchips]

Daily:

- feed fish (1 - 4x a day depending on when I'm home)
- stare at coral
- laugh at jawfish antics
- clean glass (every few days)

Weekly/biweekly:

- 5g water change (~20%)
- check SG, Ca, Alk
- top up ATO reservoir
- make 20g of RO/DI for next two weeks
- wash skimmer cup

Monthly:

- Change out GFO and Carbon in Phosbans.
- test Mg

Infrequently:

- frag where necessary to prevent deaths
- scrape coraline

Automated:

- RO/DI water auto top off
- Alk, Ca, Mg and vodka dosing

[SeaHorse_Fanatic]

Wow, most of you make it sound like WORK!!!

Daily:
Feed several times (frzn, pellets)
Add Kalk saturated water from 2L juice jug
Observe at fish & corals throughout day & reposition fallen corals.
Surf Net for new fish/corals/inverts to add to tanks
Visit Canreef/BCA (throughout day)

Weekly:
Clean glass (3x)
Empty skimmer collection cup (2x)
Top up sump/reservoir (2x)
Dose Mg/Ca/Lugol's (1-2x)
Feed Nori (3x)


Every 3-4 months:
100-140g water change (recycle 210g reef water into 120g fowlr/softie tank)


Every 16-22 months:
Change out 14000k Aquaconnect or Phoenix bulbs

[Lance]

Daily
check controller numbers
top up reservoir with feshwater and calcium
dose alk/Mg by drip tubes
replace any corals that Bubba (trigger) has knocked over
feed fish flakes/pellets in morning
feed fish nori in the afternoon
feed fish fresh/frozen in early evening
feed nem & some LPS twice a week
clean glass every second day

Weekly
clean all 3 skimmers: cups and necks
10% water change on the 225g (I have a lot of fish in this tank )

Bi-Weekly
10% water change on 90g and 35g

Monthly
change all media
clean Becketts on skimmer
clean any pumps that need it
clean salt creep where necessary
clean algae, etc from overflows if required

Annually
change all bulbs
replace probes

[Leah]

Mine is really basic compared to some of you
Daily

Feed twice frozen/flake
Top up daily
Scrape algae
Empty skimmers
Pull out dead fish/corals

Weekly

Combined water changes of about 20 gals
Make new water for the following week
Blow yuck off rock
Replace dead stuff

[Delphinus]

Every 5 minutes, or thereabouts

Check Canreef
Check RC
Check J&L New&Noteworthy Page
Check Canreef

Oh, wait .. you meant just the tank stuff. Uh, never mind ..

[Borderjumper]

Originally Posted by Delphinus

Every 5 minutes, or thereabouts

Check Canreef
Check RC
Check J&L New&Noteworthy Page
Check Canreef

Oh, wait .. you meant just the tank stuff. Uh, never mind ..

^
LOL isnt that the truth!

[kien]

Originally Posted by Leah

Mine is really basic compared to some of you
Daily

Pull out dead fish/corals

you pull out dead fish and corals on a daily basis !?!? That is sad, I'm sorry to hear that

[whatcaneyedo]

Daily
Feed fish once
Inspect tank

Weekly
Clean glass
change filter sock
perform 10% water change
Test Ca, Alk, Mg and Salinity then adjust if needed
Dose Lugols Solution Iodine
Feed coral powdered coral food
Clean skimmer
Harvest macro algae
Frag

Monthly
Test PO4 and NO3
Change carbon and GFO
Top off Kalkwasser reactor

Semi annually
Calibrate pH probes
Service Ca Reactor

Annually
Change bulbs
Change RO/DI filters
Calibrate Refractometer
Repair/service pumps if needed

The rest is automated

[lobsterboy]

Daily

morning:

test CA followed by dose of CA
dose zeostart

nightly:

top up water manually
dose zeostart
test KH followed by dose of KH

dose zeo supplements

prime zeo reactor 12 times

clean glass every 3 days
same time clean skimmer cup
same time clean arcylic cover on light and well, give a dusting, all around the tank, vaccum up rouge snails, alot of small snails make that leap of faith outta the tank.

every two weeks:

10% water change, mixed 15min before water change

replace carbon

30min after water change, check salinity, test CA and test KH

replace filter sock


monthly: test MG, K+, P04

replace zeolites

replace blubs, every 3months