Reminiscing....... Lol

[Troylee]

Looking through some old pics the other day, and came across this pic of my first live rock lol.... I remember staring at this thing for hours and just thought it was the coolest thing ever when I bought it.... Watching the feather dusters, pods, critters etc.... Did anyone else have that adventure???? I remember paying 80$ for that thing and just thought it was the best thing ever in my tank lol....;)

 

[_Alex_]

lol ya been there done that .... i didnt pay $80 for one rock but i did buy some and thought it was crazy all the life it had on it, and even crazier when a black serpent star came crawling out lol and we still have it today after litle over a year

 

[MoneyPit]

Yes I do here is my begining, way back when. lol

 

[sexycorals]

aweeeee troy.. makes me teary eyed

 

[clowns101]

LOL,I can remember when I had my old 30 up and I had the good ol' new best on the market corallife powercompact lighting system and my cool pumping xeina!Makes me laugh,the corals of today were dreams of then.There was no such thing as a Watermelon back then...........

 

[Troylee]

Lol.... Man it was cool..., I had a fish only with plastic plants and a huge plastic acro.... It was the first real life I had in my first tank..;)
Funny thing about the plastic acro was my friend came by one time and was like whoa dude!!!! That thing is getting huge... lol!!!!! I was like dude it's plastic.... He felt so dumb....;)

 

[clowns101]

LOL Thats pretty funny...LOL

 

[lvsuckerfish]

I remember those days also when I first started lol I bought live rock from petco and I felt robbed no live nothing cool just a red rock in water/ then went and bought some from Jay in vegas and it was a better looking and say some critters coming out and turing purple slowly but surely. those were the good days I had better luck then then I do know with a ton more knowledge I have now. go figure.

 

[BlueWaterTropicals]

I remember my first set up... 75g AGA with and undergravel filter (it was all the rave back then, haha) with penguin powerheads on it, Magnum 350 canister filter and 4x40w NO Fluorescents! I also remember moving on up to PC's thinking they were the bomb digity! I wish the internet was more intune to aguariums back then, could have saved me a lot of money but then again, it was the 90's, haha!

 

[Mavjoy]

My first ever reef tank...TRUVU FTW!..

 

[clowns101]

I remember my first set up... 75g AGA with and undergravel filter (it was all the rave back then, haha) with penguin powerheads on it, Magnum 350 canister filter and 4x40w NO Fluorescents! I also remember moving on up to PC's thinking they were the bomb digity! I wish the internet was more intune to aguariums back then, could have saved me a lot of money but then again, it was the 90's, haha!

LOL,that reminds me of this book that I have "...undergravel filters are a must for the advanced reef aquariust,they are the absolute best filtration for the best results..."

 

[sexycorals]

i remember About 15 years ago... i was the man of the block!! i bought a stalk of the pulsing xenia and i remember everyone was over to stare at that think pulse!! i bought it for a whopping $55.

 

[clowns101]

i remember About 15 years ago... i was the man of the block!! i bought a stalk of the pulsing xenia and i remember everyone was over to stare at that think pulse!! i bought it for a whopping $55.

LOL,I remember you telling me about that!...LOL

 

[BlueWaterTropicals]

i remember About 15 years ago... i was the man of the block!! i bought a stalk of the pulsing xenia and i remember everyone was over to stare at that think pulse!! i bought it for a whopping $55.

My first was yellow colony polyps (parazoanthus) and we would frag them for friends on occasion cause they were the coolest! I don't remember what I gave for them, but they probably were not cheap!

 

[sexycorals]

Then my next biggest baddest coral was the Eagle EYES!!!! That truly made me the envy tank of the neighborhood. :bigsmile:

 

[skinz78]

I remember my first set up... 75g AGA with and undergravel filter (it was all the rave back then, haha) with penguin powerheads on it, Magnum 350 canister filter and 4x40w NO Fluorescents! I also remember moving on up to PC's thinking they were the bomb digity! I wish the internet was more intune to aguariums back then, could have saved me a lot of money but then again, it was the 90's, haha!

LOL I remember those days.... Mine was almost the same down to the last drop except my first tank was a 45g. My LFS told me that a cleaner shrimp, many nudibranch's, sea horses, a picasso trigger, and a filefish were all compatible and easy enough for a newb....

 

[sexycorals]

Great thread!! love the old memories!! I was sooooooooooooooo excited when i first got my tyree neon green toadstool after being on the waiting list for 2 months.. LOL LOVEd IT!!!

LOL I remember those days.... Mine was almost the same down to the last drop except my first tank was a 45g. My LFS told me that a cleaner shrimp, many nudibranch's, sea horses, a picasso trigger, and a filefish were all compatible and easy enough for a newb....

 

[mojo]

LOL, Yea the Xenia was the best thing since sliced bread. But I remember buying a clown fish and a Haitian Anemone after the pet store telling me that clowns host in them all the time. and that my 40w strip light was enough to keep almost any coral in the store. Oh the days. I had a under gravel filter and two HOB filters. And my dream was to be able to afford a skilter filter for the tank. oh the days....
And I too would stare at my two pieces of live rock for hours. looking for the life....

 

[sprinklerdudes]

I started with a piece of live rock about the size of your hand and a small bag of live sand in a ten gallon aquairum, set it up on a work bench, all the guys would stare at it for hours watching the feather dusters ans other critters on it, finally had to move it to the house to be able to get some work done. still have it, best ten dollers I every spent, lol

 

[sprinklerdudes]

didn't even relize it to just know, thats a picture of it in that tank to the left, it's my avitar when I joined R2R, I was so freaking excited. man , I still love this hobby