We All Do It...

[Harlequins]

I've done my weekly water change today on all my tanks.

I love cleaning the tanks,and sad to say i have never missed a week cleaning them

Do you love cleaning yours or find it too much of a chore and loathe it?

 

[sausagewinkle]

I enjoy it

 

[hanny93]

I love it! love seeing nice clean sand

 

[SchottayB]

Also enjoy it .

 

[This Old Spouse]

Love the results, hate the process!

 

[CrazyAirborne]

today is also tank cleaning day in my house, and i would have to say i neither love it, nor loathe it. Its something I know i have to do, and im really happy thats its done. but i definitely dont LOVE it. i just get it done so i can then enjoy my fishies

 

[Athena]

I have similar feelings to CrazyAirborne - I wouldn't say I absolutely jump for joy at the thought of lugging buckets of water back and forth, but then if I hated doing it I just wouldn't keep fish (so out of those two options I opted for "love it").

I suppose you could say it was an enjoyable task because the end result is so satisfying. Oh, I do get a bit of a kick out of doing gravel vacs - there's something quite gratifying about seeing gunk disappearing up the tube LOL (maybe it's knowing that I've done my good deed for the day eh?).

Athena

 

[Confish]

ye same as above dont love it but i know the results are worth it but if i didnt need to then id love that, but i do enjoy a big clean once in awhile

 

[This Younger Spouse]

Love the results, hate the process!

We agree completely. There's a shock.

 

[Monty-2010]

call me weird but i like doing the water changes

 

[Louiseness]

Personally I would be happy if I never had to change any water ever again but obviously having nice fish to look at is the reward

 

[eaglesaquarium]

Since I "upgraded" from a bucket to a hose, I have to say that the process is far more enjoyable. It's not so enjoyable that I would say that I love it, but the fish seem to enjoy it (playing around in the new water as it enters the tank), and I've add my cories spawn twice within 12 hours of completing the water change. So, I suppose that puts me on the "love it" side, even though I would say that it is more of a continuum than merely a Love it/hate it proposition.


If Love it is a 10, and hate it is a 1, then I would fall around a 7 or 8.

 

[This Old Spouse]

I think if I didn't do housekeeping, I'd like it a lot more. I like it more than cleaning toilets!

 

[fluttermoth]

Oh, I do get a bit of a kick out of doing gravel vacs - there's something quite gratifying about seeing gunk disappearing up the tube LOL

I love that bit! There's something very, very satisfying about it

Since I "upgraded" from a bucket to a hose, I have to say that the process is far more enjoyable.

Oh, I agree 100% with that. I was getting to the stage, not of giving up my tanks, but seriously considering how much longer I could keep them going when I switched to a hose. It's not faster (I don't have a mixer tap or shower I can attch the hose to, so I trickle the water back in fairly slowly) but being able to sit down with a cup of tea while and watch the tank refill is sheer joy after 20 years of bucket lugging! I can't imagine why I didn't do it before

 

[KkAaNnEe]

I feel much the same as eagles, i didnt like doing it with buckets, but now with a hose it seems less like a chore, also as my new tank doesnt suffer as bad with algae and BBA, i only have to change water, not remove and scrub everything!