Here's a few pics of my tank taken over a several year period.

I had the tank pretty well automated so a lot of the daily tasks like water replacement were taken care of. I probably put 30 or so minutes a day doing things like feeding, cleaning off the front glass, random water quality tests, etc. I'd have to give the skimmer a cleaning every 4-5 days. Every two weeks I'd do a 20% water change which would take an hour or two.

I figured out that all together I was spending about 30hrs a month on the tank. Not an overwhelming amount of time for sure. At least not until my daughter was born. Once she came finding a spare hour to deal witht he tank, not to mention 30, was tough. Even so I probably would have kept it if not for the fact that we moved to a new house and moving one of these things is a seriously fucked thing t have to do.