Remember when... (everyone chime in!)

[becon776]

It's funny in this hobby how the fads come and go. How your interest in certain things changes over time. I think all these little thoughts all the time and laugh to myself because noone around can appreciate them. so I figured I'd start a thread. Hopin people will bite.

 

[becon776]

Berlin skimmers were the cadillac. If you got one all your problems were solved.

 

[EllieSuz]

My first saltwater tank was a 55 gal. on an iron stand and had an undergravel filter. Nobody was rich enough to afford a home protein skimmer. I hate to admit the fatalities I had in that tank back then. I think it's why I appreciate the hobby so much now. Keeping a reef is a reasonable proposition in spite of the complaints to the contrary from many of us.

 

[der_wille_zur_macht]

Similar story here, EllieSuz. I thought my first tank was pretty rad because it had powerheads on the UGF instead of just a wimpy air pump. Protein skimmers were something you saw on super high end tanks in the magazines.

 

[becon776]

I remember being so excited about the first little coral that grew in my tank. I thought god how cool this thing is... yeah... it was an aptasia.

 

[shawna1972]

I remember being so excited about the first little coral that grew in my tank. I thought god how cool this thing is... yeah... it was an aptasia.

lol Yup same here,Little did we know!

 

[Flanders]

I got my first double NO light strip!

 

[superkat]

picking up a piece of LR with "hitchhikers" and being so excited. and then trying to rid my tank of a bazillion of those pesky little starfish....

 

[StashuDave]

I remember when a DEEP sandbed was a perfect system... I used to love rinsing hundreds of pounds of gravel for a 75 gallon tank!

 

[Guy(ReefSmart)]

Puca shell was the cadillac of marine subtrate

 

[poolkeeper1]

How about those Tower filters with two Sq Ft of Bio-balls In them, I thought man all that Bacteria will make this tank perfect, Plus It had those rotating spray bars to trickle water over the balls. LOL Seems so silly now and those things cost a fortune back then.
Bill

 

[GMaquarium]

I am thinking back to a time when I had a street post light over a tank that was full of lava and Florida slab rock with softies and caulerpa. And bragging how I got corals and plants growing in my reef. There were sleepless nights of trying to design a sump to hold even more bioballs.

 

[Srixon]

I am thinking back to a time when I had a street post light over a tank that was full of lava and Florida slab rock with softies and caulerpa. And bragging how I got corals and plants growing in my reef. There were sleepless nights of trying to design a sump to hold even more bioballs.

This was the one I was waiting for.....:beer:

 

[GMaquarium]

I can go further back if you want. As a child, collecting fresh snow to melt down and use for waterchanges. Think of it as free RO/DI water. Or taking trips to local swamps and water treatment plant to collect cyclops, daphnia and worms to feed to the fish. I can still smell that tasty ozone from a diy contaption made from a mercury lamp in a 3 liter jar. Now this makes me want to dig up some old pics.

 

[Gravesj1s]

Two words that should throw gas on this fire.

Albert Theil!

 

[zooman72]

Freshwater - naturally-colored gravel/ sand.....

Saltwater - those damn bio-balls, followed thereafter by bio-stars, bio-beads, bio-slabs, bio-stars inside of bio-balls, bio-cereal.......:hmm3::spin2::spin1::spin3:

 

[Gravesj1s]

Theil was an advocate of high alk.

Hows 18 dkh sound? Further states no harmful effects up to 35dkh

Can you imagine the buffer to keep it that high.If I had to go the Theil way I'd just get right out of the hobby.

 

[superkat]

Now this makes me want to dig up some old pics.

oh yeah! get the pictures!

 

[frgrasso]

anyone remember the old tanks with the metal frames and slate bottoms ?

 

[Gravesj1s]

...man becon why youd get me started ,all I can think about right now is Theil.In all honesty, thats exactly why I dont have much equipment today.I hate gagets.I use to have a arsenal of useless crap,worrying about redox potentialand how I think I need ozone air dryer,my co2.disolved Oxygen,Copper level ect.......sheez,I spent all my time tinkering with stuff and worrying about important things like chemicals I might be needing.