whats your secret reef keeping

[Coleus]

MONEY AND TIME

[lastlight]

Originally Posted by kien

My secret is Adobe Photoshop.

lol you wish mr paint shop pro.

[Delphinus]

Originally Posted by lastlight

allow your system time to mature and hit its stride.

[lastlight]

your spidey senses must have tingled eh? i posted that specifically for you boss lol.

[Carrera75]

Originally Posted by Madreefer

1.Water changes
2.Patience
3.Dont keep tinkering with stuff. The more you play around the more problems you'll have. Dont know why people figure they have to keep putting there hands in their tanks.

I totally agree with you. People stress out too much about the little stuff and a lot of them just can't keep their hands off their systems. Let things be, sit back and enjoy! This is suppose to be an enjoyable hobby, and not something that adds more stress into one's life.

Here is a pic of my set up. I really don't do much to it. I simply let it be.....

[kien]

Originally Posted by Carrera75

I totally agree with you. People stress out too much about the little stuff and a lot of them just can't keep their hands off their systems.

werd! I didn't get within 15 feet of my tank all last weekend and it didn't blow up! This reminds me, I had a debate with someone on another forum recently. I said that there was nothing that I needed to do to my tank on a daily basis and he tore me a new one and asked me, "Well what's the point of having a tank then?" So according to him I should be doing something to my tank at least once a day?? Serious LOLs with that discussion there.. haha.

And beautiful tank Carrera!

[Aquattro]

I feed most days, that's about it. The point is to look at it, not be in it

[Carrera75]

Originally Posted by kien

And beautiful tank Carrera!

Thanks kien....I like it too

Originally Posted by Aquattro

The point is to look at it, not be in it

Couldn't not agree more ........

[Spyd]

K.I.S.S theory... Nice and simple. Water changes every 2 weeks on the dot is what I strive for. I have a fairly heavy stocked SPS tank so I need to dose Cal / ALK / Mag. Other than that, I do have pellets, GFO and carbon running. The actual amount of maintenance of my system is very little. GFO / Carbon once a month... I don't touch the pellets. Maybe top them off once every 6 months or so. And dosing is on pumps w/ timers so all I have to do is check that the jugs don't run empty.

So essentially, water testing once a week, clean the glass once or twice a week, feed daily, clean skimmer once a week, water changes bi-weekly and mix up sand bed bi-weekly to prevent gas build up... I don't put my hands in the water much at all unless adding a new coral or move something around the odd time. Hands in the water too much is asking for trouble.

[Midway]

for me feed the fish daily, water changes, clean the skimmer once a week if any, but since I've added one of those algae scrubbers to my system my nitrates keep very low now I haven't changed water in the last 2 months or so. So less maintenance time more time to enjoy the system.