How much time do you spend on your own tank?

[Tyson]

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.

[Tom R]

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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[Dale]

I feel kinda bad saying this but I spend about 2Hr's a month on my SW and less than that on my FW system (excluding DIYprojects)

[sick lid]

weekdays-
1 hour in the mornings to feed fish, vacuum larvae and fry tanks, feed rotifers.
1 1/4 hours in the evening to feed fish, vacuum larvae and fry tanks, feed rotifers, and harvest phytoplankton.
1 hour per night on average for maintenance.

weekends- same schedule with an additional 2 hours per day spent on maintenance.

so in total, I spend around 25 hours per week
I don't know why I am going to be putting in more tanks

Larry

[Redrover]

Sunday's: 2hrs..water change..wipe down cabinets...clean sump
Week Day's: once a day feeding [ 2 min. ]...clean all glass [ am ] scrape back wall glass PM [ hand scrapper ]...don't like coraline...clean skimmer every second day...tinkering time per week about 2 / 3 hrs.
Add 20 min's per week to attach sock to overflow pipe and remove two days later,clean so it's ready for next water change.
I am a retiree so I have all kinds of spare time, say what..." Yike "

[Slipstream]

Bout 3 hours But ya shoulda put a poll, woulda been easier.

[BC564]

daily feeding and glass cleaning, water top up...... 15min.

sundays is water change day....I do a 20 litre change every week instead of a bigger change once per month. Suck up the dietrius and stuff...clean skimmer approx. once per week....so about 1 hour

Total time about just under 3 hours a week.

[mseepman]

About 20 minutes a day feeding and general cleaning. Then about 1 1/2 - 2 hrs on weekend doing more in-depth maintenance.

[Lydia]

2 FW tanks (15 years old), 1 SW tank (5 months old), total about 3-4 hours a week maintenance, including feeding times 2 or 3 times a day each tank. Plus many, many hours of staring at the tanks, especially the new SW!

Don't watch t.v. - watch laptop & aquarium

Lydia