Nano Saltwater Tank Weekly Maintenance Schedule

In this video, I answer the question "are saltwater tanks hard to maintain". I talk you through ALL of the maintenance tasks I do midweek and on weekends on my nano saltwater aquarium, the Fluval Evo 13.5, to give you an idea of how many chores you'll need to do on a reef tank.

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0:00 Are saltwater tanks hard to maintain?
0:17 Weekday maintenance
1:59 Weekend maintenance
6:46 Other maintenance
7:04 Total maintenance time per week

[brian-texs]

I spend 4 hrs on average a week with maintenance on my 26gal. I drag it out on time because I enjoy it. The satisfaction from a clean tank with healthy fish and corals is cool. The best stress reliever.

[ladiesman]

Low maintainance? This routine had me exhausted 😂 great tank though 🫰

[mattov]

This is brilliant. All of these "its easy to do a nano saltwater tank" videos just got shutdown by this video of adding this and adding that and with products that are named with words that aren't even part of the english language.

[Jtuck]

You inspired me to finally start my own nano reef tank. Currently cycling now just anxiously waiting to start adding some corals and fish!

[edwardwalker]

I am in the “learning” stage of working toward jumping in the salt water aquarium hobby. I thoroughly enjoy of videos. Thinking of a nano tank to start. Again, thanks for your informative and entertaining videos. From Racine, Wisconsin, USA.

[Mike-fdpv]

Great to see the nano getting some coverage

[Jodoropanzer]

Nice, I have a FluvalFlex 15 which I adapted for a reef, keep it up we need more nano tank content.

[andrespizzi]

I would love to see a video about the 40 gallon tank!

[HopelessBromantic]

Thank you for this video I’ve been watching your video for last month because I really want to start a saltwater tank I’m buying this exact tank so you made my life so much easier! Thanks!

[ItsJustMeBrett]

I started my evo 13 about 2 years ago and I have never needed to add kalk for some reason.
My alk is always high as he’ll and I don’t want to burn any corals. I’m at the point now where I do bi weekly 15% water changed and it everything has been great.

[StonedAndConfused]

Haha I wish !! My 125 gallon reef requires atleast 12 hours weekly on maintenance granted I enjoy it so I don’t rush what I’m doing but it deff gets more time consuming the larger you go also requires way more filtration

[johnson]

Gearing up to get back into the hobby with a red sea max nano! Will probably do it opposite and add corals first like reef builders did. Will be a euphyilla dominated tank so not difficult anyway

[liampritchard]

On my 2000 litre I only have to do monthly water changes and weekly maintenance is checking the filter roll cleaning the skimmer if it needs it and the general stuff but I probably spend about 4 hours a month on maintenance where I don’t need to test as I have a trident so it’s testing every 4 hours for me so takes a lot of maintenance time away

[estonianreefer]

5:52 in the video salinity reading 35ppt at 18.1c . I hope that you are not taking this as your final reading as salinity will decrease with temperature raise and I assume you are not keeping your reef tank temperature 18.1C.

[Justin]

Man I need the stl for the 3 in 1 Hanna checker holder thing!

[techtrader]

Great video! I wish my corals looks as good! The only thing that opens in my tank is torches and xenia, 😢

[tompage]

For my 90l, all I do is pump 25l of water out the window, refull wtih 25l of NSW (which is delivered to my house monthly) and then clean the glass and prefilter on my oase biomaster. Takes all of 15m.

[christianbennett]

Where did you get the holders for your hanna checkers? 😁

[neeetreef]

Hey RD! I love your 3D printed Hanna checker stand at 2:51, do you by any chance have the STL file for it? Thanks NR 😊

[leem]

Your test kit holder!!! where can i get one /