At what frequency does every do their tank maintenance upkeep tasks? I often find that I tend to dedicate a whole day (4 tanks) each month to knock out bigger tasks, test everything ect and I am interested in how other reefers keep up with the weekly/monthly tasks. I have been going through some depression recently and have gotten into a bad habit of puttng off things like testing and have a good burst of energy every so often.
How often do you:
Test Chemistry (does anybody else test Mag monthly and Alk much more frequently? Does anyone ever actually test for ammonia?)
PM Pumps
Water change
Scrape algae off the glass
Calibrate pH and refractometer
Vacuum sand bed
How do you manage your tasks so that you keep up with them?
Test: I test phosphate, alk and nitrate weekly, calcium every other week and magnesium monthly
PM pumps: 180 days or so
WC: About every 10-14 days
Glass cleaning: When my GF complains she can't see the corals
Calibrations: When I think a probe or a reading is off....
Vacuum: During WC typically but with AWC on my nano I got very lazy
How often do you:
Test Chemistry (does anybody else test Mag monthly and Alk much more frequently? Does anyone ever actually test for ammonia?)
PM Pumps
Water change
Scrape algae off the glass
Calibrate pH and refractometer
Vacuum sand bed
How do you manage your tasks so that you keep up with them?
Test: I test phosphate, alk and nitrate weekly, calcium every other week and magnesium monthly
PM pumps: 180 days or so
WC: About every 10-14 days
Glass cleaning: When my GF complains she can't see the corals
Calibrations: When I think a probe or a reading is off....
Vacuum: During WC typically but with AWC on my nano I got very lazy