What's the most demanding maintenance of your tank

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  1. Green_Clavulari

    Green_Clavulari Spaghetti Worm

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    Hello,

    I am curious, what's your most demanding maintenance (or time consuming) for your tank. Is it water changes?
     
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  2. Thatgrimguy

    Thatgrimguy Flying Squid

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    Annual pump/plumbing cleaning.. Water changes are quick and easy for me.
     
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  3. skurious

    skurious Sailfin Tang

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    id say probably water changes. for me its really the only thing i do, and thats only once every two weeks. other than that it runs itself for the most part.
     
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  4. skurious

    skurious Sailfin Tang

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    True, pump cleaning takes time but with it only coming once or twice a year i forgot about it.
     
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  5. swede1

    swede1 Plankton

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    For me water changes are not so bad, its the water testing I find demanding it has to be done or suppose to be done alot more often then water changes and I hate working with the little test tubes. If I had the cash it would all be read electronic with probes.
     
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  6. scadsobees

    scadsobees Fire Shrimp

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    Definately my nightly sight maintenance of trying to visually estimate how many micrometers each coral hàs grown that day...I spend hours each week on that.
     
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  7. ReefBruh

    ReefBruh Giant Squid

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    Manual dosing for me. It pretty much shows in my corals if I miss a day or two. And feeding also. Hard to tell the guys no after being in front of the tank 3-4 times a day.
     
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  8. rc_mcwaters3

    rc_mcwaters3 Clown Trigger

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    mine is definatly the water testing, I started to test about every 7 days if everything looks good thwn I stay that way but if I get a new edition or a new coral I do it once every 2 days to make sure that everything balences it self out.

    the other is making ro water, It take forever and I have to do it at leat once a week :p
     
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  9. Mr. Bill

    Mr. Bill Native Floridian

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    Definitely water changes, but since I only change 10% monthly using NSW, computer maintenance is far more "demanding". ;D
     
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  10. Green_Clavulari

    Green_Clavulari Spaghetti Worm

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    Once every two weeks is not bad at all. I keep discuss fish and planted tanks, I do 3 times weekly. :)

    Is there such a thing for those water testing probe. I remember, there is one testing that have to be done with those text tubes only.

    Is this a required maintenance?

    I was curious about this feeding as well. I could only imagine if you have fish and corals. How big is your tank? how long does it take each feeding?

    All you do is waiting for the whole week. You don't do anything basically. Com on..rc_mcwaters3 ;D
     
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