What is your daily, weekly and monthly maintenance routine?

[christyf5]

Daily:
Look at tanks, count fish (glad to hear I'm not the only one), look to see if any of my SPS have turned into the "rare and elusive white solomon island acropora" overnight
Feed nori
Feed mysis or whatever other frozen "flavor of the month" food I've bought
Inspect rock/corals/fish for various cooties.
Look at controller to see that temperature is in range.
Right any turned over or fallen frags.
Watch fish to make sure they're all behaving relatively "normal"
If tank is doing well and decent looking, spend more time looking at tank and admiring progress. If tank is sucking hard, walk away and check internet for possible solutions/look at pictures of better tanks/corals.
Look at coral websites and lament not having won the lottery.

Weekly:
Fill up top-off tote
Clean skimmer cup, spend 30 mins trying to get skimmer restarted (impeller is old and crusty)
Waterchange (volume varies with enthusiasm/state of tank levels 10-40%)
Change carbon
Clean glass


Monthly:
Make up new Mg, Ca, Alk solutions for dosing pump
Check Mg, Ca, Alk to make sure its in line
Check various other parameters just because I bought the tests and I should be using them
Clean Tunze powerheads


Every couple months:
Change phosban and wonder why I still have algae growth
Take skimmer completely out and clean with vinegar

Yearly:
Change out bulbs (Yeah boxing day sales!)

[shrimpchips]

Lobsterboy - why so much testing of Ca and Alk?

[Dez]

Daily:

Morning-
Prime Zeo reactor and dose zeo products before I go to work
Look at the tank in the dark

Evening-
Feed frozen soaked in selcon/garlic
Look at tank
Dose zeo/prime reactor

Weekly:
Empty skimmer collection container
Turn RO unit on to fill resevoir
35 gallon water change (I will probably change this to every 2 weeks)

Monthly:
Clean skimmer neck
Siphon crap out of sump and other areas

Every 8- 10 months
Change lights? (haven't gotten to this point yet)

[lobsterboy]

Originally Posted by shrimpchips

Lobsterboy - why so much testing of Ca and Alk?

force of habit. parms dont really change much, maybe up or down 10 parts.

[JDigital]

Daily:

Stare at tank
Feed once
Dose: Ca, Alk & 4 misc Zeo products
Clean glass
Stare at tank more
Fill ATO Res. (every 3 days)

Weekly:

16% Water change
Manually remove GHA

Monthly:

Replace Rowaphos
Test Ca, Alk, Mag
Scrape Coraline

[e46er]

daily
feed
dose vodka
check tank make sure all fish are still in tank not in overflows,sump ect


every couple days
test Ca alk mag dose as required (just started adding sps so not sure about consumption rates thats why testing is done so often
clean skimmer cup
top off sump
weekly
20G water change more if i feel like it and its mixed up
monthly
change out carbon and GFO

every couple months
clean out skimmer
clean out ruturn pump
clean out CL pump

[BlueAbyss]

Daily:
-Observe heavily, noting changes in coral and macroalgae growth, anything up with the fishes, all livestock still accounted for, etc.
-Top off with distilled water
-Dose according to schedule
-Clean off rocks with turkey baster
-Check temperature throughout the day

Every 2-3 days:
-Feed Trachyphyllia and Purple Firefish
-Clean glass
-'Prune' macroalgaes if needed

Weekly:
-Stir the top layer of sand a bit if it's not getting turned over enough
-Attempt to ID all the wierd things I've been seeing around my tank (Hmm, sundial or collonista snails? And what is this red macro?)
-Test all parameters, I really need to start doing this again

Biweekly:
-25% water change
-Change polyester filter floss
-Suck air out of the non-breaking siphon

There are a few changes that I will be making to this schedule soon, now that I can see a few problems with my husbandry

[Sencha]

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