Do you remember reefing when...

[atoll]

When we had no tech as such and instead were very much hands on. I am still reefing in a similar way after 40 years.

 

[william Lutman]

Do you remember reefing when...Fill in the blank!

Only filters were under gravel and hang on back filters with chambers were new to hobby

 

[Gumbies R Us]

when I didn’t even have a tank, and was always confused at how reed tanks even worked

 

[Paul B]

I remember reefing when there was no such thing as reefing. When the only fish available were blue devils and Sargent Majors and they were very expensive. No corals of any type.

I remember removing my dead coral skeletons that we decorated our tanks with and bleached them every week and maybe added a little acid to make them whiter.

I remember when there was no ASW, (we had to collect water) no test kits, no salt water lights, or filters. When there were no protein skimmers or salt water gravel.

No Powerheads.

I remember when this was the only salt water magazine,



No all glass tanks, and no copper medications.

No credit cards and no LFSs. Only pet shops. No cell phones, computers or color TV.
(black and white TV was invented the year before I was born) :anguished-face:
I remember when fish were sold as "toy fish" in toy stores.

I remember when PODS were so plentiful, they came like this.


I remember Ed Sullivan and when at 10:00 PM TV went off and turned black with nothing on on any of the 6 channels that were in existence.

I remember when we used to try to get Majanos and Aiptasia to live in our tanks and we fed them.

I remember reefing when I had hair.

 

[ta88brian]

Just remembered DLS Wet Dry although soon replaced by Berlin Method and all Wet Dry labeled nitrate factories as if everything else processing inorganic somehow wasn't yet apparently clueless to the fact nitrates were reduced only because skimmer extracting waste before decomposing. Now we still call canisters nitrate factories even after discovering carbon dosing solving that and making it a moot issue plus don't get me started on simply solving everything with algae :confused:

Metal holes power compact vho

 

[ta88brian]

Metal holes power compact vho

Meant metal halides

 

[ta88brian]

Meant metal halidebuying fish at pet land discounts

 

[ta88brian]

Nektonics UGF were all the rage ...power plus 600 filter ..anybody remember that ?..aquaking , Blue/ green algae was the thing to get growing in your tank ...2 piston dynamaster to fire up that UGF ... Limewood airstones in HOB protein skimmers... I started keeping marine fish in 1975 .. pre - reef tank times

That 2 piston dynamometer was a bit noisy

 

[ta88brian]

That 2 piston dynamometer was a bit noisy

Dynomaster

 

[THE_MAD_REEFER]

When Kole Tangs were 20 bucks and Nitrates were bad.

 

[ta88brian]

When Kole Tangs were 20 bucks and Nitrates were bad.

Instant ocean was only salt.mix

 

[Gumbies R Us]

I could get medium Yellow Tangs for $19.99 and a 44 lb box of Fiji premium live rock for $50.

I miss those days when yellow tangs were that cheap. I told my dad how expensive they are now (he used to have a tang 20ish years ago), and he couldn't believe how expensive they had gotten.

 

[GARRIGA]

Metal holes power compact vho

For the longest tried affording VHO in the 80s and when that day came had to exit the hobby due to working too many hours which was why I could then afford them :frowning-face:

 

[GARRIGA]

Meant metal halides

Loved the look but never practical for me to hand them. Plus first tank next to my bed and those bulb would have given me suntan :rolling-on-the-floor-laughing:

 

[GARRIGA]

Instant ocean was only salt.mix

For some public aquariums. Still is today.

 

[56longroof]

I miss those days when yellow tangs were that cheap. I told my dad how expensive they are now (he used to have a tang 20ish years ago), and he couldn't believe how expensive they had gotten.

The whole hobby is getting pretty expensive.

 

[Overboard]

Hawaiian Marine Imports was the only saltwater store in the Houston area for a long time. I believe they sold a salt mix too.

 

[Lb71]

When FAMA magazine came out with a multi part article called,( Is It Time For a Change?) This article ushered in true reef keeping in the United States.

Larry Burt

 

[Gumbies R Us]

Hawaiian Marine Imports was the only saltwater store in the Houston area for a long time. I believe they sold a salt mix too.

How many are in the area now?

 

[Tcook]

Dolomite
Undergravel filters
Sicce plates were the hot thing
$60 blue damsels in 1970