Cleaning service for routine water changes/cleaning

ejpreefer · 05/14/2011, 01:47 PM

Could you please pm any service guys you use for just routine maintaince and cleaning, and ball park what they charge?

Name and phone number/website would be great so I can contact them.

Thanks

headchef · 05/14/2011, 11:10 PM

Pm sent

Xgame2k · 05/15/2011, 12:25 PM

we do it ourselves.

sltyncopa · 05/15/2011, 12:38 PM

Nevermind

dublo8 · 05/15/2011, 01:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Xgame2k

we do it ourselves.

I know. Who's pays for this stuff? That's like blasphemy in this hobby. I guess it's for those that don't consider it a hobby and only consider the pretty thing in the glass box a decoration. Those same people don't know one thing about the equipment they are running either.

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Xgame2k · 05/15/2011, 02:43 PM

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Originally Posted by dublo8

I know. Who's pays for this stuff? That's like blasphemy in this hobby. I guess it's for those that don't consider it a hobby and only consider the pretty thing in the glass box a decoration. Those same people don't know one thing about the equipment they are running either.

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like.

rwessels · 05/15/2011, 03:08 PM

If you can afford to pay for the things that you don't want to do but have to, then more power to you. I would much rather spend my time enjoying my tank than scraping coraline algae off of the glass.

rafajara1985 · 05/15/2011, 03:38 PM

I would consider having somebody do the dirty work if I had the money. I could really live without cleaning skimmers and scraping algae. Everything else I'm cool with though.

125G Reefer · 05/15/2011, 04:07 PM

Wow, you guys. Jeez he only asked a simple question. Yikes. you guys went right for the throat.

aztbs · 05/15/2011, 04:55 PM

I sure wish you never have a reason why you are unable to take care of your tank and need some help to get you through. Accident/injury, surgery, emergency travel, simple physical limitations - there are a millions reasons why someone might need to hire some help with this hobby.
I don't get why this is such a negative thing.

rafajara1985 · 05/15/2011, 04:57 PM

I fractured my ankle and need someone to clean my skimmers. I'll take care of the rest

potterjon · 05/15/2011, 05:09 PM

A dollar a gallon is the basic rate from what I understand. From there it will go up according to what you are keeping in the tank.

reefstew · 05/15/2011, 05:14 PM

I'm lucky to have my kid help me with the cleaning. When you have over 50 tanks it's overwhelming.

rafajara1985 · 05/15/2011, 05:17 PM

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Originally Posted by potterjon

A dollar a gallon is the basic rate from what I understand. From there it will go up according to what you are keeping in the tank.

is that like per visit/cleansing?

dublo8 · 05/15/2011, 08:24 PM

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Originally Posted by aztbs

I sure wish you never have a reason why you are unable to take care of your tank and need some help to get you through. Accident/injury, surgery, emergency travel, simple physical limitations - there are a millions reasons why someone might need to hire some help with this hobby.
I don't get why this is such a negative thing.

I completely understand the idea of people having an LFS/fish tank maintenance guy for somebody that travels a lot, has a disability, works 80hrs a week or for a business etc. But it just reminds me of those guys that buy a 69 camaro and pay somebody else to restore it for them. Just not my cup of tea I guess. I just don't get it. There is no emotional attachment either. If you lose a fish coral etc you can blame somebody else instead of yourself and it's replaced with no regrets. You also learn a lot as you go along. Just like restoring a car. You know every nut and bolt by the time your done. Yeah some of it sux but the satisfaction and knowledge that you get from doing these kind of things is priceless IMO. It wasn't an attack at Hume it was for the folks that pay for it and show it off like there own blood,sweat and tears went into it.

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poltergeist · 05/15/2011, 09:47 PM

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Originally Posted by dublo8

I know. Who's pays for this stuff? That's like blasphemy in this hobby. I guess it's for those that don't consider it a hobby and only consider the pretty thing in the glass box a decoration. Those same people don't know one thing about the equipment they are running either.

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There are many reasons someone may require outside help. You may want to hold off on your judgment until you have the full story.

medical issues
vacations
death in the family?

I thought this hobby was supposed to relax people.... sheesh.

dublo8 · 05/15/2011, 11:01 PM

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Originally Posted by poltergeist

There are many reasons someone may require outside help. You may want to hold off on your judgment until you have the full story.

medical issues
vacations
death in the family?

I thought this hobby was supposed to relax people.... sheesh.

LOL I am relaxed. did you read my post above you? I understand all those reasons I'm not hating and I agree with you 100%. I was reading about a tank of the month last night and the guy didn't maintain it himself nor did he build the tank plumbing. He didn't even know what equipment he had. Just kind of bums me out when people try to take the hard work of somebody else and play it off as there own and get all the recognition. Tank maintenance guys have a cool job for sure though. I posted a thread a while ago about high end reef tanks in NY lofts. They pay people to maintain them which is cool for the guy maintaining them I guess, but they just want something pretty to look at and have no responsibility of the lives in their tanks.

I use to own my own business installing high end home theater equipment and house automation. It was fun spending other peoples money to build them something unique and amazing, but if they pressed the wrong button on the remote I would get a phone call at 3am. I would do my best to explain things to people and even go as far as printing out instruction pages on how to do the simplest tasks and they still had no idea how to play a dvd or lower the screens (even though there was a switch on the wall or a button on the remote labeled "screen"). Now these people were the same people that had animals but yet payed for somebody to pick up the poo. These same people also had children, some of them cared for by nannies.

If there are other reasons why people need somebody "needs" to have a tank maintained for them I understand, such as the reasons you mentioned. What I don't understand is why people want something but want nothing to do with it at the same time or don't take the time to understand it.

azshooz · 05/15/2011, 11:18 PM

Yeah, Jiffy Lube and mechanics are for complete slackers......and I won't even begin to mention hairstylists, doctors, nurses, landscapers, cooks, housekeepers, drycleaners, painters, plumbers, electricians, pool cleaners, waiters......etc, etc, etc.

Real men DIY, what's up with people that pay for stuff they don't want to or can't do themselves?

the new mcdoubl · 05/15/2011, 11:40 PM

The people who jumped down this persons throat should be ashamed. If i get deployed to some other country, do i suddenly become a useless turd because i have to have someone maintain my tank for me? And even if someone did want a tank just to look at whats wrong with that? Not everyone has the patience or time or intelligence to invest into the DIY of this hobby but we should just be glad that people are spending money on it one way or another because otherwise the hobby WILL disappear. Just because someone cant do something their self doesnt make it wrong for them to enjoy it. They still earned the money that they spent on it and that gives them every right.

dublo8 · 05/16/2011, 12:12 AM

Now see you have us all wrong here. I understand if you got deployed, that makes sense. Hell, if you stick around here a little longer and get to know us I wouldn't doubt that somebody wouldn't mind stopping by your house once or twice a week to check on your tank for you if you really needed it. We are a great community here and very tightly knit. It's the point that it is no longer a hobby if you have to pay somebody else to do 100% of the work. Once it reaches that point it's just an expensive decoration and not a hobby.

If you don't agree with my thoughts than that's fine. We will agree to disagree, it doesn't hurt my feelings. We are all here because of the same thing and we all have a common interest. Some of us just have different points of view than others.

dublo8 · 05/16/2011, 12:18 AM

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Originally Posted by azshooz

Yeah, Jiffy Lube and mechanics are for complete slackers......and I won't even begin to mention hairstylists, doctors, nurses, landscapers, cooks, housekeepers, drycleaners, painters, plumbers, electricians, pool cleaners, waiters......etc, etc, etc.

Real men DIY, what's up with people that pay for stuff they don't want to or can't do themselves?

ROFL some of those we kinda need. On the other hand. I had my rental house painted and it took them 3 days and cost me more than I want to think about. I bought a paint sprayer and a couple 5 gal buckets of paint and did this one myself. Looks just as good and even after buying the equipment it cost me less than half and I did it in 2 days. However, you can keep the housekeepers, pool cleaners and the jiffy lubes, I don't need em.

Turbovr3six · 05/16/2011, 07:33 AM

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Originally Posted by dublo8

I posted a thread a while ago about high end reef tanks in NY lofts. They pay people to maintain them which is cool for the guy maintaining them I guess, but they just want something pretty to look at and have no responsibility of the lives in their tanks.

Have you ever been to a NYC appt?

Living there isn't the easiest place to keep a tank. People get alot of money to take care of the tanks because the owners have the money to spend. It's not a matter of paying someone so you can do NOTHING all the time. If the owner has an interest, he/she will get their hands wet.

In reality though, wouldn't you rather someone else do your tanks dirty work, and have them lug everything up and down to the "XX" floor of the building? I know I sure would if I was able to pay to live in Manhattan.

My .02 as always.

jerryz · 05/16/2011, 07:42 AM

Luddites of any kind are rather distasteful. So this person wants to have something and for reasons that you're not privy to chooses an approach that you don't approve of? Who exactly made you or any of these other wonderful people the final arbiters of what does what doesn't constitute an actual or valid hobby? Climb back in your cave.

sltyncopa · 05/16/2011, 08:27 AM

^WOW! For whatever reason I hope you found a sevice Guy/Gal!!!!

azreefer · 05/16/2011, 04:33 PM

Jeremy at The Happy Fish is a great guy to deal with 602-550-8246.

Hope that helps you.

05/14/2011, 01:47 PM	#1
ejpreefer Registered Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Arizona Posts: 684	Cleaning service for routine water changes/cleaning Could you please pm any service guys you use for just routine maintaince and cleaning, and ball park what they charge? Name and phone number/website would be great so I can contact them. Thanks

05/15/2011, 12:38 PM	#4
sltyncopa Moved On Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 602	Nevermind Last edited by sltyncopa; 05/15/2011 at 12:50 PM. Reason: ?

05/15/2011, 11:18 PM	#18
azshooz Sunburnt Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Phoenix, AZ Posts: 544	Yeah, Jiffy Lube and mechanics are for complete slackers......and I won't even begin to mention hairstylists, doctors, nurses, landscapers, cooks, housekeepers, drycleaners, painters, plumbers, electricians, pool cleaners, waiters......etc, etc, etc. Real men DIY, what's up with people that pay for stuff they don't want to or can't do themselves? __________________ "The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant: 'What good is it?" -Aldo Leopold Current Tank Info: 120G FOWLR transitioning to mixed reef. 2G Nano.

05/16/2011, 12:12 AM	#20
dublo8 Registered Member Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Morgan Hill, Ca Posts: 3,225	Now see you have us all wrong here. I understand if you got deployed, that makes sense. Hell, if you stick around here a little longer and get to know us I wouldn't doubt that somebody wouldn't mind stopping by your house once or twice a week to check on your tank for you if you really needed it. We are a great community here and very tightly knit. It's the point that it is no longer a hobby if you have to pay somebody else to do 100% of the work. Once it reaches that point it's just an expensive decoration and not a hobby. If you don't agree with my thoughts than that's fine. We will agree to disagree, it doesn't hurt my feelings. We are all here because of the same thing and we all have a common interest. Some of us just have different points of view than others. __________________ 10g IM fusion. Zoa and SPS dominant, Apex monitored, Ai Prime, MP10, sicce return.

05/16/2011, 07:42 AM	#23
jerryz Registered Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Phoenix Posts: 953	Luddites of any kind are rather distasteful. So this person wants to have something and for reasons that you're not privy to chooses an approach that you don't approve of? Who exactly made you or any of these other wonderful people the final arbiters of what does what doesn't constitute an actual or valid hobby? Climb back in your cave. __________________ When in doubt ride a bike. Current Tank Info: 75 Gal Freshwater Discus Tank, 20G Nano, 125 Reef

05/14/2011, 11:10 PM	#2
headchef Registered Member. Join Date: Jan 2010 Posts: 71	Pm sent

05/15/2011, 12:25 PM	#3
Xgame2k Registered Member Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Gilbert, Arizona Posts: 786	we do it ourselves.

05/15/2011, 03:08 PM	#7
rwessels Registered Member Join Date: May 2005 Location: Phoenix, AZ Posts: 779	If you can afford to pay for the things that you don't want to do but have to, then more power to you. I would much rather spend my time enjoying my tank than scraping coraline algae off of the glass.

05/15/2011, 03:38 PM	#8
rafajara1985 Registered Member Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: East Mesa Posts: 953	I would consider having somebody do the dirty work if I had the money. I could really live without cleaning skimmers and scraping algae. Everything else I'm cool with though.

05/15/2011, 04:07 PM	#9
125G Reefer Moved On Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Glendale,AZ Posts: 913	Wow, you guys. Jeez he only asked a simple question. Yikes. you guys went right for the throat.

05/15/2011, 04:55 PM	#10
aztbs Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Chandler, AZ Posts: 4,492	I sure wish you never have a reason why you are unable to take care of your tank and need some help to get you through. Accident/injury, surgery, emergency travel, simple physical limitations - there are a millions reasons why someone might need to hire some help with this hobby. I don't get why this is such a negative thing.

05/15/2011, 04:57 PM	#11
rafajara1985 Registered Member Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: East Mesa Posts: 953	I fractured my ankle and need someone to clean my skimmers. I'll take care of the rest

05/15/2011, 05:09 PM	#12
potterjon Registered Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Asheville,NC Posts: 933	A dollar a gallon is the basic rate from what I understand. From there it will go up according to what you are keeping in the tank.

05/15/2011, 05:14 PM	#13
reefstew Registered Member Join Date: May 2009 Location: Phoenix ,Az Posts: 1,608	I'm lucky to have my kid help me with the cleaning. When you have over 50 tanks it's overwhelming.

05/15/2011, 11:40 PM	#19
the new mcdoubl Registered Member Join Date: Apr 2011 Posts: 18	The people who jumped down this persons throat should be ashamed. If i get deployed to some other country, do i suddenly become a useless turd because i have to have someone maintain my tank for me? And even if someone did want a tank just to look at whats wrong with that? Not everyone has the patience or time or intelligence to invest into the DIY of this hobby but we should just be glad that people are spending money on it one way or another because otherwise the hobby WILL disappear. Just because someone cant do something their self doesnt make it wrong for them to enjoy it. They still earned the money that they spent on it and that gives them every right.

05/16/2011, 08:27 AM	#24
sltyncopa Moved On Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 602	^WOW! For whatever reason I hope you found a sevice Guy/Gal!!!!

05/16/2011, 04:33 PM	#25
azreefer Premium Member Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Chandler, AZ. Posts: 523	Jeremy at The Happy Fish is a great guy to deal with 602-550-8246. Hope that helps you.

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