Blast From The Past

[jason2459]

This is probably the oldest aquarium related thing I have. And it's the 4th edition from 1976

 

[griss]

This is probably the oldest aquarium related thing I have. And it's the 4th edition from 1976
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That’s fantastic. Thanks for sharing.

 

[Paul B]

I think I have the first edition of Straughn's book. That was my bible. Great book.

 

[five.five-six]

@laverda He still uses a lot of vintage equipment too.

 

[five.five-six]

I have 3 spares in case these burn out

 

[Misled]

This thread always brings up old memories. So good.

 

[jason2459]

By far the absolute best skimmers ever made. IMO of course
MTC Venturi or Beckett skimmers.

I love my MTC MVX. I did a lot of playing around and testing different configurations and pumps. Different venturies and even dual. Jeff also sent me a new collection cup top and Beckett conversion to try.

Unfortunately Jeff is no longer with us

 

[T Diddy]

I recognize some of those books…brings back great memories

 

[five.five-six]

Here is my 72“ Giesmann Spectra. I know it’s old and ancient and lo tech and can’t be programmed and it’s from e the horse and buggy days but every 6-9 months I have to trim 1-2 Home Depot buckets full of SPS colonies or the tank just gets overrun. I just trimmed about 1 -1/2 Home Depot buckets out today.


For those of you who might be concerned I might run out of Radium bulbs, I have a 200 gal IO box full of now or almost new 20K radium’s. I don’t know how many that is but I’m sure it will last me well into whenever LED finally catch up with MH

 

[griss]

This is probably the oldest aquarium related thing I have. And it's the 4th edition from 1976
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Here is my 72“ Giesmann Spectra. I know it’s old and ancient and lo tech and can’t be programmed and it’s from e the horse and buggy days but every 6-9 months I have to trim 1-2 Home Depot buckets full of SPS colonies or the tank just gets overrun. I just trimmed about 1 -1/2 Home Depot buckets out today.


For those of you who might be concerned I might run out of Radium bulbs, I have a 200 gal IO box full of now or almost new 20K radium’s. I don’t know how many that is but I’m sure it will last me well into whenever LED finally catch up with MH



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Nice, love it.

If you ever need to unload frags…

 

[Paul B]

I still have two of these, they are from 1991

 

[griss]

Reading this tonight, amazing how much we’ve advanced in this hobby. I had forgotten about the editor of FAMA, Don Dewey.

 

[griss]

Was browsing FB Marketplace and saw this. I haven’t seen one in years.

 

[griss]

Was browsing FB Marketplace and saw this. I haven’t seen one in years.

Saw another Oceanic trickle filter for sale on FB today.

 

[griss]

A guy on FB Marketplace has an MTC Econo-Skim for sale. I’m tempted

 

[griss]

@Paul B Check out this listing on my local Facebook Marketplace. An old metal frame aquarium and look at the old equipment.

 

[Reefing102]

@Paul B Check out this listing on my local Facebook Marketplace. An old metal frame aquarium and look at the old equipment.

Looks to be in excellent condition too

 

[griss]

Looks to be in excellent condition too

I know, if I was going to set up a FW tank, I’d be all over it.

 

[Paul B]

@Paul B Check out this listing on my local Facebook Marketplace. An old metal frame aquarium and look at the old equipment.

Those were the only tanks around when I started. Actually, those stainless steel framed ones are newer. The original ones were black iron with white streaks. They were fine for a few years with fresh water but rusted badly in salt water.

They were sealed with "asphaltium varnish" which is basically tar and leaked all over the place. Remember, no silicone or even plastics just after WWII

 

[griss]

Those were the only tanks around when I started. Actually, those stainless steel framed ones are newer. The original ones were black iron with white streaks. They were fine for a few years with fresh water but rusted badly in salt water.

They were sealed with "asphaltium varnish" which is basically tar and leaked all over the place. Remember, no silicone or even plastics just after WWII

Did you have a picture of one of your metal framed aquariums in one of the magazine articles or posted on here?