Do you remember reefing when...

[areefer01]

Reef sand(South Down Tropical Play Sand) available at Home Depot.

Probably one of the best deals this hobby has ever had. You just won the thread.

 

[lbacha]

When MACNA was in Cleveland Ohio (twice in a couple years actually) 15 minutes from my house (it was actually Berea but Cleveland Saltwater enthusiast association which is no longer around put them on)

 

[OrionN]

When there was no propeller type PH.

 

[Overboard]

When the most common wrasses at LFS were flame wrasses!

 

[Reef Hub]

Do you remember reefing when yellow tangs only costed $50?

 

[Glenner’sreef]

Everyone piled their live rock “boulders” against their back wall of their tank.

 

[56longroof]

When yellow tangs were less than $20 and Marineland Magnum 350 canister filters were the best water "polisher". Also Maxi- Jet power heads ruled.

 

[100gallonreefer]

UGF's with powerheads where still fashionable

My 1st 55 gallon in 1983! Bought a set up tank 20 miles away. Put all water in buckets. Moved tank, water and fish and didn’t lose I fish

 

[Sump Crab]

When all LFS had REAL south pacific liverock

 

[Sdbuehler1]

Buying online was sketchy and eBay was one of the few trusted sites to get supplies.

 

[ryshark]

When (many corals) became officially high end named acros after getting the stamp of approval from Steve Tyree at http://www.reeffarmers.com/
which made them LE. Limited edition.
As far as I know, he started the whole naming of corals game.
Nowadays people are asking for trade name identification of corals with no lineage…..

 

[ryshark]

When ReefCentral was bigger and better than R2R hahahaha. Complete opposite now.

 

[Outlaw Corals]

When Flying Fish Express was the absolute best online vendor in the game, they had all the livestock listed on the website in stock, sometimes you would get a call from the packer while packing your order and saying hey this such and such fish you ordered is not looking to good and then asking you if wanted something better instead and really hook you up, and their customer service was the best ever, that was before Smith and Forster brought them out, and it just went downhill from there, it still stinks for the most part, another thing is the good old days before “ per polyp” existed, I would like to drowned whoever sort of that ****

 

[Solo McReefer]

7500K was "blue"

 

[JohnnyBlowfish]

Do you remember when….you could buy quality Fiji live rock and coral colonies were actually quite large?

 

[areefer01]

When we read books.
USENET.
Bulletin Boards.

Oh the joys of hobby and technology evolution...

 

[Cichlid Dad]

I was a young fresh water guy and would go into LFS and see all of this rock sitting in Water filled tubs and through you got coral by buying this live rock and coral would just start growing from the rock. Someone had told me the rock was full of coral spore LOL!

 

[GARRIGA]

When (many corals) became officially high end named acros after getting the stamp of approval from Steve Tyree at http://www.reeffarmers.com/
which made them LE. Limited edition.
As far as I know, he started the whole naming of corals game.
Nowadays people are asking for trade name identification of corals with no lineage…..

Naming I recall started with reptiles and perhaps where he got the idea from. Line breeds became more expensive and still what fuels it today.

 

[Laughterman]

UGF and Wet/Dry filters were the way to run reef tanks in the 1980's and flouresent lights were the way to keep corals alive.

 

[PhilT]

When I started with undergravel filters on a 30 gal long tank.
And the cool sump at the LFS had like 5 drip trays of crushed rock as biological filtration.