How much time do you spend on reptile maintenance?

16+ minimum of an hour a day just feeding and watering/misting, weekly cleaning on most cages (which is around 30 tanks and 10 tubs). Weekly feeding for the snakes and frogs, everyother day maintenance of feeder colonies. Figure in about 2 hours for shopping for supplies, and i get a full week

I have four snakes and I spend at least three hours a week feeding, cleaning, and checking temps. I am very obsessed with keeping enclosures clean and making sure temps and humidity are spot on.

At least 16 hours taking care of snakes and feeders.:snake: :mouse2::rat:

With the tokays, cresteds, balls, beardies, feeders and other miscellaneous geckos we have here I end up working for 4 hours a day. Sundays are the full out cleaning and snake feeding day so Sundays take about 6 hours. It's a full time day job for me. Thank god I love what I do.


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Wife spends 3-5 hours a week feeding. I spend 5-10 hours a week on everything else depending on what I have to do. Like today I'm about to spend about 3 hours cutting substrate paper to fit the tubs.

I honestly never counted, I enjoy being in the snake room so much that it does not feel like work or chores so I don't really look at how much time I spend there, rats on the other end :rolleyes:

Yea im with Deborah^
i only have a small number of snakes so i dont consider it work at all. Feeding day is usually friday or saturday which takes a total of maybe 1 hour. I feed live so i do have to watch everything but still doesnt take more than that usually. Then wednesday is cleaning day (complete cleaning). Which takes maybe an hour. Then usually everyday/every other day i spot clean/refill water bowls. Which takes about 5-15min. So total a week thats like 2-2.5 hours. I honestly wish i had more snakes to take care of lol. Hopefully getting some more soon tho :D

I put in an hour or less, but I was only really considering monitoring temp and humidity, general spot cleaning, feeding and water changes which only takes a few minutes each day (plus I split the responsibility with my boyfriend). However I did not take into account, updating the log (for each snake), handling, research (we are always trying to improve our methods and the lives of our reptiles) or the rack we have been working on.. so in retrospect I probly would have put 2-5 if I really thought about it. :P

We really needed the 1-2 hour range. Basically it depends on how cooperative my crested is feeling... she's, um, really helpful during feeding... and whether it is time for a full on clean out or just a quick pass. (Love how easy geckos are!)

I have to say, although it is a pain and I still don't have it set up perfectly, getting a misting system has significantly reduced the amount of work and also the amount of required handwashing!