If you're concerned about the cost of power consumption, you probably need to find a new hobby haha. In looking at your setups and everything, you've already sunk quite a bit of money into it, and you will certainly run across much more costly problems in the future than leaving the lights on too long.
Your lights will consume the most power, so if you're that concerned, ditch the live plants and get LED lighting because it draws like 1W. I wouldn't mess with constantly changing around the heater and filter settings. Say you save yourself $3 a month doing that, but then you kill one $5 fish who didn't handle the constantly changing water params and you're still losing.
Your lights will consume the most power, so if you're that concerned, ditch the live plants and get LED lighting because it draws like 1W. I wouldn't mess with constantly changing around the heater and filter settings. Say you save yourself $3 a month doing that, but then you kill one $5 fish who didn't handle the constantly changing water params and you're still losing.
