Do you remember reefing when...

[AlyciaMarie]

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

 

[6272862829]

When Acro colonies were $40 to $80.

 

[Chris Spaulding]

I could have a box of live rock from Fiji flown in for about $80

 

[Chris Spaulding]

When protein skimmers used wood air stones and all thought that was a huge deal.

 

[Matt L]

It was just you and your LFS.

 

[Chris Spaulding]

T5 lighting was the new lighting tec

 

[lil sumpin]

vanuatu, fiji, tonga weren't all fairy tale places

 

[bobnicaragua]

Nobody ever got dinos!

 

[SliceGolfer]

When you thought Halimeda and yellow polyps were cool?

 

[SliceGolfer]

When you scoured the advertisements in Freshwater and Marine Aquarium magazine?

 

[SliceGolfer]

When you upgraded from your metal framed, slate bottom aquarium for glass and plastic?

 

[revhtree]

Nobody ever got dinos!

THIS!

 

[FUNGI]

UGF's with powerheads where still fashionable

 

[Tamberav]

... there was REAL (fiji) live rock...

 

[areefer01]

When hobbyist were more friendly and focused on helping one another.

 

[Uncle99]

Yellow tangs $30.
3 for $75.

 

[Doctorgori]

Reef lights were white
there were no wi-fi components
you bolus dosed by hand
every new “bug” didn’t send you into a panic
bleached white dead corals were a decoration
Kent, Seachem and Fluval were cutting edge companies
Oh and Hammers and frogspawns were the cheapest corals…

 

[GARRIGA]

Dolomite was king...

 

[theMeat]

When bio balls was the rage everyone wanted

hobbyists gathered at lfs Saturday mornings to share info

Everything was sterilized with bleach before it went in tank

When did aptasia infest ?

 

[GARRIGA]

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: