How much time and energy do fish need?

How much time and energy do fish need?

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Once you have the system set up, and that process can be anywhere from an hour to an all day event depending on the size and type of the system. But once you have the system set up, you're going to spend most of your time watching and enjoying your fish. And that's as much time as you want to spend doing it. On a day to day basis, you're really only going to have to feed your fish. That's about a five to ten minute time requirement. As far as maintenance goes, there's a protocol you have to go through for cleaning your tank, either every week, every two weeks or every four weeks, again this depends on the size of the system you have, whether it's fresh water or salt water, whether you have living coral or fish only, and some other factors would come into consideration. So there is a time commitment. It's different than other animals. Again, you don't have to walk it every day, you don't have to spend a certain amount of time every single day with it from a maintenance standpoint. But you will end up spending a lot of time from an enjoyment standpoint, just watching and observing your fish.