My first fish tank - Circa 1979 - Oh how things have changed!

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My first Fishtank - Circa 1979

Hey check out my very first fish tank below ! :)

In June of 1979 the The Seattle Super Sonics won the NBA Championship against the Washington Bullets, and more importantly, my father purchased a tank for after we visited a family friend who was keeping fish. The interesting part is that while I originally purchased goldfish to "season" the tank, as it was called then, I have recently reverted back to keeping goldfish once again, 32 years later!


Click this link to see the video of what this tank has morphed into :)

http://www.youtube.com/user/fishforme2?feature=mhee#p/a/u/0/DlWKbedg3d0


I'd love to see if anyone has any vintage photos of their first fish tank. Or even memories of your first fish tank. Leave comments here, or on my channel.

I'd love to hear your "first tank" story, especially those of advanced age, like me :)

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I wish I had photos of mine from that era. 20g tall, steel framed, under gravel filter, with external 3d background. My dad had it set up prior to my birth so who knows how old it actually was but as soon as I could walk I was helping to take care of it. Back then our maintenance schedule consisted of stirring up the gravel every month or two while the diatom filter was running, this lasted until '89. When I got back into the hobby around 2000 it was weird using the web and learning about wc, cannisters, etc. I now realize that these things were around back in the day but without the web you basically knew what your neighbors knew.
 
That's pretty cool, how you're still using that aluminum stand and all. I don't have any pictures, but my first tank as far as I can remember was a 5g fish bowl; like the flattened kind with one of those small aquaclear filters hooked up to it, and a shark catfish of some sort; I don't remember the name exactly, only that it was some sort of shark catfish. I had that tank when I was around 12yrs old, back in 03.
 
JC_P said:
That's pretty cool, how you're still using that aluminum stand and all. I don't have any pictures, but my first tank as far as I can remember was a 5g fish bowl; like the flattened kind with one of those small aquaclear filters hooked up to it, and a shark catfish of some sort; I don't remember the name exactly, only that it was some sort of shark catfish. I had that tank when I was around 12yrs old, back in 03.
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Aluminum is king! :)
 
Agreed! :)
 
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