THROW BACK THURSDAY!

[Daniel@R2R Verified Admin]

It's THROW BACK THURSDAY! Show us what your first saltwater tank looked like! Post up your pics!

 

[Waters]

Thankfully I do not have any pictures of my first saltwater tank. If I did, you would see a lot of fish that shouldn't have been in a 29 gallon filled with hair algae.

 

[Daniel@R2R Verified Admin]

Ha! I had a yellow tang, a kole tang, 2 clowns, a bta, a blue damsel, a sergeant major damsel, and a few other things in my 29g. I'm surprised it didn't self-destruct. My filtration was a single HOB carbon filter like is generally used for freshwater tanks. Crazy thing is they all did fine for the 4 months it took me to by a bigger tank and they all got promoted to my HUGE 75g. Ha ha ha. Ah...my noob mistakes were MANY!

 

[theblackpearl]

my first reef tank... a rare 70 gallon tall
coralife skimmer, coralife power compact lights, rena xp filstar filter with inline heater
picture was taken on a state of the art 3mp camera phone, circa 2008

 

[Waters]

Ha! I had a yellow tang, a kole tang, 2 clowns, a bta, a blue damsel, a sergeant major damsel, and a few other things in my 29g. I'm surprised it didn't self-destruct. My filtration was a single HOB carbon filter like is generally used for freshwater tanks. Crazy thing is they all did fine for the 4 months it took me to by a bigger tank and they all got promoted to my HUGE 75g. Ha ha ha. Ah...my noob mistakes were MANY!

I am embarrassed to even admit it but I had a Volitan Lion, a Picasso Trigger, and a large Moray in a 29 :(

 

[LILBUDDHA]

Proly before 2001 .. 54 bow front , cpr hob overflow feeding a ling sy mud filter .
Lit by 250 watt radium halide .

 

[kschweer]

When I first set it up

And a week before hurricane sandy took it out.

 

[Vanmo92]

Then (About 10 years ago):




Now:

 

[dfm34]

No pics but about 30 years ago I bought a used 55 with an under gravel filter a volition lion Picasso trigger and a hippo tang also had 4 pieces of fake coral. But I was proud and hooked. Been in and out and learned so much in 30 years. The one thing I really learned is you never stop learning.

 

[Tahoe61]

1996, power compacts were popular and skimmers were expensive.