How far fishkeeping has come

[petspoiler]

If you want to see how far fishkeeping came go to a Petland. When I am in there I feel like I am walking into a fishkeeping museum.

Lol. like going to my lfs to buy crickets for an oscar & the girl at register talks about feeding hers "hotdogs, chunks of raw hamburger & everything"? and kept one in a 20G for ten years.
argh. wasn't the owner, but still I was horrified & speechless.
My point being: some people remain stuck behind the times of "current good practices", no matter what date it is ;-)

 

[petspoiler]

This brings back those late nights heating up cans of sealing tar to reseal the slate bottoms of my Metaframe tanks. Or, changing out the leather flap valves and leather belt of my Supreme Dynamaster dual-piston air pump.

what years ...??

 

[vr6fan]

I started keeping fish when I was around 14 in the mid eighties...I had a 55 gallon with a hob filter with a cartridge that had a super thin mech pad and was filled with carbon...no bio...if you wanted to get real fancy you added a UGF or spent a small fortune on a canister...stock in my tank was 3 large oscars and 2 snakeheads ( they were legal then)....we didn't have the Internet our only means of getting info was from whoever we happened to talk to at the Lfs...needless to say you didn't always get the correct info...everything about fish keeping has come a very long way since then let me tell you.


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[Oddball]

Now that's an old school brand....wonder if the company still operates.

They're still around. Their pumps have changed from nice heavy steel construction to less-than-desireable thin tin and plastic.

what years ...??

I started in 1964. Got the pump around 1970. Still have 2 of them and some replacement parts.

 

[robnin2002]

My buddies and uncles tell me they still let water age. Lol its an old havit of theirs. Some dont believe in amquel or novaqua at all. Others do believe in it but they would rather let water age lol. Funny stories to me.


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[krichardson]

They're still around. Their pumps have changed from nice heavy steel construction to less-than-desireable thin tin and plastic..

I remember those pumps...When I just got into saltwater I bought a Supreme Skilter.

 

[Jc1119]

Back in the 70's, my folks bought a HUGE (55 gallon lol) tank. We never changed the water and cleaned it about twice a year, removing all the fish and draining it down to nothing. UGF as well. We would physically take the tank outside to wash it out in the yard. God bless them, but as much as they loved to keep fish, they were not really fish keepers. And boy did we keep alot of fish from all the ones that died.

I remember my Dad watching me do a water change in a tank I owned many years later and he was fascinated by the process.

 

[MyGiants]

I remember the box filters run off air pumps. I can remember always replacing that white floss stuff and putting a little carbon on the bottom. Those were the kinds of filters you have besides the undergravel filter.. I think Supreme came out with the first hang on the back filter box. It used a pump that sat in the box it sat up high above it with 2-3 large U tubes that siphoned water in then the pump would pump it back.

 

[tlindsey]

I'm currently using a Second Nature WDF 4000 on my 29 gal. African Butterfly setup

 

[Oddball]

I think Supreme came out with the first hang on the back filter box. It used a pump that sat in the box it sat up high above it with 2-3 large U tubes that siphoned water in then the pump would pump it back.

I still have a couple of those. A Power One 300GPh HOB and a Power Plus 600 HOB. The motors are on top and you can see the exposed stator wires inside the metal motor housing. They're the ones with the offset U-tubes that you had to start by putting you thumb over the top opening to keep the siphon from breaking.