oldest aquarium here on MFK

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Knowdafish;3730363; said:
Here are some pictures of a friends tank. It was originally built in the very early 1900's and was in the Steinhart Aquarium in San Francisco. Interior dimensions are 120" x 24" x 24". I restored it for him over the course of two months. He has some older ones set up also from the 1800's, but I don't have pics of those. He is a VERY avid collector of antique aquariums.
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wow... that is a beautiful fish tank... i can't believe they actually had them back in the 19th century??? :WHOA:
 
That antique aquarium is just plain badd ass! Thats craftmanship not engineering.
 
my my my my my my

that antique is a killer thing whooooooo

i am glad to have seen it
 
Thanks for compliments!

If you like that one you guys would drool over some of his other ones!
 
zerojquan85;3730406; said:
wow... that is a beautiful fish tank... i can't believe they actually had them back in the 19th century??? :WHOA:
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Yup! The Victorian era was the real start of "modern" aquariums.

Some were heated by placing a lit candle underneath them!
 
i would like to say these are some pretty tanks. an i have a ten an a twenty that belonged to my grandmother they had been setup until just a couple of years ago when she passed away. they had been setup in her house all my life so i know they are atleast 30 years old. an my dad has a 55 setup that he got from my uncle he has had that since some time in the 80s . i just got a 120 gallon tank but i dont have any clue how old it is
 
I don't have a pic of it but I got as a present for my 9th birthday in 1970 a metraframe slate bottum beta tank. It was about 30 inches long by 8 inches wide it was divided in 6 sections so you could keep six male betas in there. The little glass would divide each fish in its own little tank. It had a full hood undergravel filter and the fish would spar though the glass at each other, I remember each compartment had a bubblenest going. Cost
 
Knowdafish;3730881; said:
Yup! The Victorian era was the real start of "modern" aquariums.

Some were heated by placing a lit candle underneath them!
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Dam.. i should do more research on that.. but whats this... a candle????

I wonder if that still works today... would save on electric bill...... but then its also dangerous..... owellz.. how the economy prompts people to think of ways to cut corners..... :(
 
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