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RE: 120 Gal Coral Reef Aquarium. Photoset from several years of effort as an aquarium hobbiest 📷
Amazing photos! Reef tanks are so cool! How much time would you say you had to spend on maintenance per week?
I have a few freshwater aquariums myself, and hope I will be able to purchase a saltwater tank sometime, but right now the cost of getting one is way to high.
Thanks valth, I designed it all to be as low maintenance as I could. When I started it probably took 2hrs per week, but once I just left it alone, figured out the right calcium and hardness additives, it was only about 30mins per week pretty much just to do water change. I never messed with chemicals much, just did an above average water change with new salt and voila, everything right just from the proper salt minerals.
Cool, thanks for replying. I've always hard that saltwater is a lot of work, but I suppose that is mostly true if you are unable to get stable chemical concentrations in the water.
Ya, a lot of people buy fish and corals on how they look, and not on how easy they are to care for. make's a big difference in the amount of work to keep a tank of staghorns for example or just lps and softies (like leather corals and such). I'd say 10 to 1 in maintenance.