<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=6573875#post6573875 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Kreeger1
Dan, thats the old csea site right?
C-SEA had not had an active website for a long time when Orin took over as our webmaster, so the quick way was to change our personal saltwater website by adding C-SEA pages.
In other words, it's at the same URL, but it is not the same site. The C-SEA pages are gone. You may recognize some things that were on the site before it was used for C-SEA and stayed there while the C-SEA pages were added. Those were ours and the photos were all from the reef tank we first set up in the early 80's.
That tank is now over twenty years old and still growing coral, although the technology we use has changed. It is probably one of the oldest continuously operating hobbyist reef tanks in this area. It is basically a 65 gallon tank set on it's back. It is a glass front 3/4" plywood tank 26" by 46" by 12.75" tall. A reef tank in the 80's had to be shallow since the light sources then could not punch through much water. There were eight to ten 4' flo. tubes across the tank and close to the water. The ends of flo. tubes actually put out very little light, so we wanted them to overhang slightly. There was a 65 gallon sump under the tank, which originally had a wet/dry filter, but all the bioballs were soon removed when it was discovered they added too much nitrate to the system. Eventually the sump was replaced with a smaller one and the original six foot tall skimmer was replaced by more modern devices, one after the other, after the other, as new models and claims came out. The lighting is currently MH and PC. The lights are raised much higher now, so the tank can now be viewed from the top. It was moved without tearing it down, to a new stand that lowered the tank to just below eye level, :rollface: well a six footer's eye level, :rollface: so that the top view of the tank is made easier. Many specimens especially clams look quite different viewed from above. The tank is now held together as much by old coral and calcarious algae as by silicone and four coats of epoxy paint. We are going to have to replace it some day. At that point the era of the the tank will not completely close. We will move everything as much as possible to the new tank which will be made from three eighths or half inch glass in the almost same dimensions as the original tank. We plan to only make it an inch deeper since we want to preserve that top view "tide pool" look the tank acquired after switching away from the flo. tube light.
We removed the club stuff after Brad, the next C-SEA webmaster, made a copy of the whole website, and then we reverted it back to its original personal use. There are some spots where it's hard to erase/change all of the HTML without a lot of work so you may see a C-SEA logo flash in some corner somewhere when you move from one page to another.
