my 24 yr old reef lol

[salt reefer]

wow i just found a few pics of the reef a 55 gallon i had 24 plus years ago. this was way before fraging and breeding. it was when keeping a coral alive for more than a year or two was great. lol im old .hope you like a reef from the 70s he he.:lol2:
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[drnecropolis]

Blast from the past.. I always joke with people that I have had my liverock longer than most people have been in the hobby..

 

[salt reefer]

lol i here ya. i had to take a 11 year break. you now things like divorce (first wife)layoffs ,work and the army. lol but have been wanting back into reefing the past 6 yrs. just started back 8 months ago and it soooo awsome.hiya drnecro. how are you bud.

 

[drnecropolis]

Cant complain.. Well I could but who would listen.. =)

 

[salt reefer]

i hear ya. he he. yea i got to find the few pics i have of the tank when i first started it. i had it up and running for 10 plus years. i had forgot i had an elgants coral lol.

 

[salt reefer]

man i had forgot all the corals i had phew they would be awsome in my new tank lol.

 

[glxtrix]

Tell us a little about the old system...what kind of lights, salt, filtration, ect..... Thanks for sharing

 

[fishgardener]

I'd love to hear about your old tank. I keep salt water fish in college (late 70's). I only had fish, no live rock or inverts, with crushed oyster shell substrate and an underground filtration system and 2 HOB filters in a 55 gal tank. Back then the LFS said you could keep inverts or fish but not both. I had a giant conch shell and some coral skeletons for decor. Damsels cost about $5 and clowns were $10. Being a college student, I only kept the inexpensive fish. The only test kits I had were PH and a hydrometer. Times were certainly different

 

[hackman72]

fishgardener;418795 wrote: I'd love to hear about your old tank. I keep salt water fish in college (late 70's). I only had fish, no live rock or inverts, with crushed oyster shell substrate and an underground filtration system and 2 HOB filters in a 55 gal tank. Back then the LFS said you could keep inverts or fish but not both. I had a giant conch shell and some coral skeletons for decor. Damsels cost about $5 and clowns were $10. Being a college student, I only kept the inexpensive fish. The only test kits I had were PH and a hydrometer. Times were certainly different

+1 to everything you said. It's almost amazing that we managed to keep anything alive back then...but we did. If you tried that today, you'd get a visit from PETA...lol.

I'd like to here about the old tank as well. I like the pictures you posted.:thumbs:

 

[salt reefer]

well the lights were a 48 inch shoplight in a hood i used 2 atinics which i think were coralifes and to grow lighs the hood had mirror all inside to reflect the light . he he i made it mh bach then cost more than an arm and a leg lol. the tank was a standard 48 inch 55 with no overflow((wasnt thought of yet)) i had one duel something like a marineland filter but no bio wheels (again not heard of back then). and 2 of the round canister filters a 25 gallon homemade wetdry. the stand was a desk. i had about 2inches of crushed coral. and about 85 to 90 lbs of rock. if i can remember right i had a snowflaf ell,a royal tang ,a tomato clown,a domino and sargent major damsel. back then i had never heard of antiapods or coapods. the only thing i used to feed was some brine shrimp.vegi flakes and hardback shrimp(hardbacks were caught off my granmas dock. )i also had some turbo snails. and a sea apple. he was a pain in the rear always had to pull him out the returns he he.my favorite was a 9 year old coralbanded shrimp with a blue breast. he was huge.

 

[salt reefer]

lol i always dreamed of a flam angel back then but they cost like 150.00s so that i couldnt do back then but at 30.00s i got one now lol.

 

[salt reefer]

oh i have always used io salt alwas worked good for me.

 

[salt reefer]

im hunting for a few more old pics i now i got more. so ill post as soon as i can find them.

 

[hackman72]

salt reefer;418808 wrote: oh i have always used io salt alwas worked good for me.

That's what I started with as well. Of course, I think that was about all that was available back then anyway...lol. I still used the IO until about 2 years ago and amped up to reef crystals. People can laugh at us for it but, my tank is doing fine and I just see it as..."if it ain't broke, don't fix it"

 

[salt reefer]

you are right there pluse i have seen the salt tests and io is one of the top 3 .