So how long does your water change take?

[btang]

I was doing a water change the other day and decided to time it and see how much effort I was using (wife was out and Kids were asleep and I must have been a bit bored).

Well it took me 38 minutes (I was going alittle fast , knowing I was timing myself).

This included:
Setting up my my ladder to get into the tank, bringing up the 3 5gallon pales from the basement and vacuuming the 15 gallons out and filling the tank back up with fresh salt water and then all the after cleanup. Water was prepared the night before.

So how long does it take everyone else?

[tims]

well i quess i will have to time my self this weekend. i ran out of salt
but i make up about 15 gallons the night before. do vaccume adn scrape glass. usally done in a hour or so.. unless i am watching football at the same time.....

[Justin]

Just a day before? Ew,,, im tellin!
jk.
Takes me prolly at least 45 min. And im only doin under 5 gallons!
1.Mix the salt in my big igloo water container for about 3-4 days.
2.drain it to gallon jugs
3.blow the rocks/clean inside tank walls/vacuum/
4. immediately fill prefilter/sump
5. watch the dust settle

The water parts ez!wish the process was...

[nikesmashing]

minw always seems like it takes 3 hours. the cganging water and cleaning the tank takes about 45 min. the moping up the floor and cleaning the carpet seems to take 2 hours. i gotta get a better system. and stop spill the water. it never fail i'll always spill 2.5 gallons no matter how hard i try not too

[wanareef]

Takes just 10mins. I have the ro/di fill a 55gal drum, just add salt, turn on the pump and let it go - when it comes time for a change - use the same pump to drain the sump - turn a valve and pump in the fresh salt water. done

[rwdandald]

about an hour to change 35 gallons.....

[traip93]

I blast the rocks with a power head for about 15 min.

Turn off the pumps and let the dust settle on the bottom of the tank for about30 min

I have a bare bottom tank, so I only tanks about 5 min per 5 gallon bucket to suck up all the bad stuff off the bottom of the tank. I usually do 20 - 25 gallons. (about 30 more min)

Pump in the replacement water with a mag7 (about 10 min)

If I clean out the skimmer and sump, it takes about 20 more min.

Total a water change usually takes me about 2 hours.

[Junkzoo]

Never timed myself,,,don't think i want to LOL,,,
Since i tend to do other things while doing a w/c,,,and i have prob close to 300 g's of water 'tween the two tanks,,never thought to chart my time,,whatever time it takes to siphon 20 g's for one, 30 for the other, dump the 5g buckets,bring up 2 -5g buckets of new water up from the basement at a time,,,need less to say, i don't work that fast during the stair part,,haha
If/when (i know, i know ) i get the 200g in the basement, and get the 75 n 180 FO downstairs also, and have tanks and water change n top off on the same level, will either do a p-head/pump in/out thing with the wheeled Rubbermaid barrel,,or just pump straight to the drain,and reverse pump new water from barrel to tanks,,,(Man , if that ain't a incentive to get those tanks moved LOL)
During a W/c day on a tank, counting the w/c, i prob spend a lil over a hr on each tank , doing all the other stuff involved too,,skimmer, media change,glass cleaning etc.

[reefBoyDc]

2 minutes per gallon