THEN........ and ...........NOW

[JMCAquarium]

In light of the threads that I have been reading as of late.

I would like to see some Then and now pics of people's personal tanks from the first time they set one up to now.

I am expecting a few of you elder reefers to partake in this one and also I would like to see PROPS humble beginings to.

I will post mine this weekend 7 years of reef keeping has brought me a long way. And I still ave the same TANK!!

Even those still no longer in the hobby I would like to see your Then and now.

 

[0rbital]

I wish I had pictures of my old ones. I had reef tanks back around 1985. Nothing like I have now though. Low light corals, etc. I had a 55 gallon for a long time that just had 1 big yellow tang, and a perc clown that hosted in a condy anemone and that was it. Then I had a couple smaller reef tanks.

 

[tleip]

I need to find the polaroid of my 40 gallon tank back in 1976 with a picasso trigger and an undergravel filter. I still have some of those dead corals I used for decorations in a box in my garage!

There was a store down on 35th ave and Bethany called (It think) 'The Coral Reef' and I would beg my folks to take me there...

 

[reefdna]

First tank in Nashville 10 years ago. It was a regular glass tank with Siphon overflow and a homemade rubbermade sump

PC lighting

Homemade sump!

Next was a Starfire glass tank build in AZ

 

[Frick]

Here is my current 40 gallon in January this year

The same tank A month ago.

One of my previous tank I had in Michigan. 30" cube IPI.

A bad pic of it 2 years old.

 

[reefdna]

continued

continued

The portable one while in between houses

with a home made sump inspired by Melev!

The new one that will be going in the new 6000sqft custom dream home and getting it's own pre-planned fish room!! Finally!!

 

[Frick]

Reefdna..I'm very jealous.

 

[OwenInAZ]

90 gallon in October 2008:

Most recent shot from April of this year (as my wife has the camera in Yellowstone at the moment):

 

[phxadrian]

What I started out with

Somewhere in the middle (90 gal)

a few months later
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwW-CxHf9i0
The 2" hippo is now about 7"

Can't find pics of the current tank (180 gal)

 

[dmorel]

My last tank before I moved to AZ:

One of my fun little pico's:

The 20 I first built when I got to AZ:

Here is the 90 after I moved out of the 20.
OP asked about PROP's humble beginnings, well this is it. One of the very first PROP coral's was the Randy O's Echno you can (barely) see in the right hand corner on the bottom...

^^^ you can see "Todd's Torch" and my green with purple rim cap in that pic, I'm desperate for either of those if anyone in the valley still has them!

After that tank was broken down, I was out for a few years, moved to a new house and built this 58 (pic is shortly after it started, not sure where some fuller grown ones are):

And lastly, it was upgrade time to the current reef.

this pic as about 2 months old, I wanted to do shots this weekend but my wife the camera in Canada

and just for fun... if you look at the pic of the 58 you can see the green milli frag from Tiff, which now is a bit bigger than this:

Bunches more pics of the current tank on photobucket if you're interested.

Some other random shots of various tanks over the years in galleries on my website as well.

 

[JMCAquarium]

Right on looking great guys keep em coming

 

[jpeggerling]

My first tank I set up about 3 years ago

Here is my AP24 I have know. Its been setup for about 5 months

 

[4218kris]

first tank 20G Long at the time i realized i need a bigger tank.

then my 55g

150g tall

150g acrylic drilled 6ft

 

[JMCAquarium]

some nice pics from back in the day

 

[NaClH20NMYVEIN]

Funny to scroll back thru these old threads and see the names of people who have come and gone over the years. Sure is crazy the turn over in this hobby.

 

[dmorel]

we're not all gone

 

[Moto_fish]

we're not all gone

2002? I didnt even know they had the internet then!:lol2:

 

[JMCAquarium]

Funny to scroll back thru these old threads and see the names of people who have come and gone over the years. Sure is crazy the turn over in this hobby.

I know I popped on just to update the LFS sticky and saw maybe 5-6 names i remembered everyone else is new, to me anyways.

BTW sorry to you had to shut down ya system I remember seeing that monster for the first time in person. Good luck on the move there and back.

 

[JMCAquarium]

AOL dial up baby, only for the in crowd

 

[Reefhazard]

Great progression, what part of Arizona are you in now!