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05-29-2007, 05:46 PM
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How much time do you spend on your own tank?
Wondering how much time everyone else spends on their tank. Also wondering how some people ballance the rest of their life with the hobby?
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05-29-2007, 05:47 PM
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Daily would be a difficult number to break down. Weekly, I'd say 3 hours.
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05-29-2007, 05:56 PM
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Well, in terms of fish-related stuff, I made about 9 phone calls & received about 7 in the last 24 hours (total about 3+ hours). I spent another half hour packing up some fw plants to ship to Northern BC & a light to ship to PR. I am now on my way to the post office and to Greyhound to send off the packages. I also spent much too much time surfing the fish-sites.
In terms of fish maintenance, usually spend a few hours a week mostly feeding, cleaning the glass, moving or fragging corals, cleaning out the skimmer collection cup (5 min. every 4 days), and topping up. I also spend several hours every week visiting LFS. Yeah, I'd say I'm obsessed  Anthony
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05-29-2007, 05:59 PM
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according to my wife, too much time!! lol!!
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tanks: 120g w/starphire front, pm bullet 2 skimmer, yellow tang, emperor angel, niger trigger, spotted hawkfish, blue tang, flame angel and 120lbs lr
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05-29-2007, 06:01 PM
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2-3 hours on weekends doing regular maintenance (water changes, testing, tweaking, renailing frags down because my wrasse has rooted underneath). Sometimes an extra hour fixing stuff I buggered up during the regular maintenance (ie frags, rockslides etc)
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05-29-2007, 07:35 PM
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Maybe 1/2 an hour a day topping off, feeding, cleaning the glass inside and out, water changes etc.
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05-29-2007, 08:13 PM
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We spend about fifteen minutes per day feeding, and about two to three hours on the weekend on water changes and cleaning.
Now if you want to count staring into the tanks just checking things out, well, at least two hours per day!
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05-29-2007, 09:31 PM
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My old tank was at about 1 hour per week, and 1 minute per day for feeding.
Now...I've got the new tank and typical new tank problems (multiplied by 500 gallons)...so I'm easily 1 hour per day, plus 6+ hours on the weekend. There is a lot of good designing in the new tank that should make my tasks much easier and quicker than the old tank...eventually.
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400 gal reef. Established April, 2007. 3 Sequence Dart, RM12-4 skimmer, 2 x OM4Ways, Yellow Tang, Maroon Clown (pair), Blonde Naso Tang, Vlamingi Tang, Foxface Rabbit, Unicorn Tang, 2 Pakistani Butterflies and a few coral gobies My Tank: http://www.canreef.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=28436
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