Early morning reefers. Do you . . . . . . .

[vetteguy53081]

Im sure we have an abundance of reefers that rise early in the morning.
Do you tend to or check on your tank before you begin your day or leave for work or do you make coffee your go to event each day and deal with tank later?

If you start the day with your tank, what is your daily task or goal?

For myself, I assure all components running, fusion for Apex shows nothing out of norm and no distressed fish as the lights are on a very low setting when the day begins

 

[drolmaeye]

I don't check the tank right away unless there is some unexpected notification (device not connected) from my WiFi devices (lights, controller, heater). Shortly before leaving for work (after lights have been ramping up for ~30 minutes) I go down to manually dose a few mL of AFR and give a morning feed of flake and pellet. Unless I notice something out of the ordinary, I'm only there for a minute or two and then off to work.

 

[MichaelReefer]

Always,

Up at 4:30, at work by 6. Leave at 5pm.

I do a pass, check the tank and the sump.

 

[Luckki]

Make coffee and watch my tank as it wakes up! The evening is for maintenance and testing.

 

[Gumbies R Us]

Wake up and feed the fish in my tank

 

[doubleshot00]

Every morning around 5:15 i walk by and open the cabinety and glance into the sump. Look into the tank and make sure my Foxface is still sleeping in the same spot he always has for the last year.

If that looks all good I move on.

Now before bed is a different story as I'm sitting and watching TV and I think to myself "What's that sound. That sounds different".

 

[mfinn]

When I was working ( retired now) I was always up and out the door before the lights came on, so as long as the temp was right and water was flowing, that's all I really had time to check.

 

[bakbay]

Up at 5:30-6a, everyday, 365d/yr to take the dog out, replenish food/water for her, check Fusion, clean glass, nori clip, check sump, head to work. While at work, check Fusion!

 

[Mschmidt]

I might creep for those beings out at night, and if there is a strange noise, investigate. but mostly nothing. I'm always surprised by the conch on the front. thing is huge.

 

[Reefkeepers Archive]

Im sure we have an abundance of reefers that rise early in the morning.
Do you tend to or check on your tank before you begin your day or leave for work or do you make coffee your go to event each day and deal with tank later?

If you start the day with your tank, what is your daily task or goal?

For myself, I assure all components running, fusion for Apex shows nothing out of norm and no distressed fish as the lights are on a very low setting when the day begins

Yep! I dose manually and change the filter socks and filter floss daily. Also search for sea spiders

 

[Tonycass12]

I wake up at 3am and before I leave the house I always check the tank. Just a quick look and listen to see if anything is abnormal before I take off. Overflow running silent, all pumps on, skimmer not overflowing, sump at the right level and ro in my top off bucket.

 

[Cthulukelele]

Im sure we have an abundance of reefers that rise early in the morning.
Do you tend to or check on your tank before you begin your day or leave for work or do you make coffee your go to event each day and deal with tank later?

If you start the day with your tank, what is your daily task or goal?

For myself, I assure all components running, fusion for Apex shows nothing out of norm and no distressed fish as the lights are on a very low setting when the day begins

I shower at night and wake up 15 minutes before I need to leave for work. I'm very envious of all you early risers. My partner jokes that if I had my way I'd never be awake when the sun was up.

 

[Troylee]

I check fusion and I’m out! I’m awake and out the door 6 hours before lights on.

 

[rhitee93]

I get up, go to work, and then check on my tank

I would not call myself a morning person, but I do get to the office about 45 minutes before everyone else. Gives me time to clean the glass, check the sump, and put some food out to thaw for the morning feeding.

Heavy maintenance is done on Saturday mornings.

 

[FrugalReefer]

I work graves and come home at around 9-9:30am. As the lights come on I’ll do my daily dosing of 2-part and vodka (yes I carbon dose). A few days a week also as the lights come on I’ll dose aminos and trace elements. As you can see, with the exception of ATO water, I dose everything manually. I’ve had 2 bad experiences in the past with an auto doser causing my alk to spike really high. So far the manual dosing is working out well and I see no reason to go back to using a doser anytime in the near future.

 

[exnisstech]

When I was working I had the lights come on for a while early so I could feed fish before I left. I also was manually dosing 2 part then and did that in the mornings along with a quick inspection of equipment etc. Since retiring I've starting using dosers for 2part and kalk. I sleep untill I can't sleep any longer which may be 5 am or it may be noon. The dosers help me keep things consistent since I no longer run on a schedule.

 

[Gtinnel]

I will look at my control boxes on the side of the stand to make sure all of the lights look correct, then I will usually just quickly glance at the tank to make sure nothing looks (or sounds) abnormal.
I am not a morning person so I usually don’t wake up early enough to do much to the tank before leaving for work.

 

[lil sumpin]

Still fairly new to reefing and am trying to avoid habitually tinkering all the time. Mornings tend to be when I want to tinker the most and so I'll end up testing and making sure parameters are okay. I manually test with Salifert and Hanna checkers; typically I check alk, temp, salinity 2-3 times a week and cal, no3 and phos once a week. Manually testing can be a little annoying so it kind of counters always wanting to mess with something on the tank. I also feed phyto in the mornings

 

[GARRIGA]

Work from home and desktop tank next to me so I can view all day long. Were I headed out to the office then likely take a quick glance confirming nothing requiring attention happened overnight although that's no guarantee since last issue wasn't discovered until later in the morning after morning check passed. However, other than dosing manually what's needed. Too busy working to be constantly checking and the tank is right next to me. Work pays for fish food.

 

[JayM]

I'm typically up at 5 to feed the pup and let her out. I'll check tank temp and that all of the electrical stuff is doing what it should and spend a few minutes watching all of the nocturnal creepy crawly things scavenging around the rocks.