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Weekly wipe surface bowl – no other cleaning necessary with my automatic waterers (no standing water = no algae or insects)
Every five days (or fewer) during mosquito and algae season; every 10-14 days in winter … and of course more often if needed (ie, debris blows in).
My horses live turned out in pasture 24/7 and have large stock tanks for their water. I keep goldfish and/or mosquitofish in the tanks as they eat the mosquitoes and other bugs as well as the algae that forms on the sides of the tanks. If the water becomes cloudy or otherwise doesn’t look/smell right, or horses and other livestock are avoiding a particular tank, I will empty it out and clean it.