My first reeftank back in 1994!!!:)

ivan · Mar 8, 2017

I was looking for some blades for my new tunze algae scraper that I lost a few weeks back and I found this old picture of my first reeftank

That's it's funny what we use to do back then!
The sand that I had there was from SMB (Santa Monica beach

hahaha and I remember loosing lots of corals because the angels on my tank.
It been a long journey on this hobby !!

theMerchant · Mar 8, 2017

Thanks for sharing

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EyeReef · Mar 8, 2017

This is awesome. A blast from the past for sure. How was your experience with reefing in the 90's?

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ivan · Mar 8, 2017

EyeReef said:

Good and bad !!
The bad =The equipment was just a little skimmer with a wood as air stone some blue bioballs, and a 404 fluval ,lights Florecen
bulbs
If you can keep a sps on your tank for more the a week with out loosing color or bleaching out on you it was a +
The good = corals and fish cheap and there was not 1/2" frags it was $30 for the hole coral or colony but most of the stuff was pink brown or green

ivan · Mar 9, 2017

The thank was a 65gal with a build in wet and dry on the back of it from clear for life

Lionshooter20 · Mar 9, 2017

Wow!
Ivan thx for the pic!
That picture brings back a lot of memories, 1995 i had a 135 gallon reef tank that ran off a homemade chiller and 4 foot protein skimmer run off a wooden air stone that I converted to a Venturi system. Lol
It was plumbed with 3 fluvals that were run recirculation style, Had a hang on the back down to a wet dry filter with the bio balls. And that was top-of-the-line back then

I worked at a fish store that had salt water and mostly corals at that time we're LPS, pretty rare to see anything SPS because it wouldn't live.

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ivan · Mar 9, 2017

Lionshooter20 said:

Wow!
Ivan thx for the pic!
That picture brings back a lot of memories, 1995 i had a 135 gallon reef tank that ran off a homemade chiller and 4 foot protein skimmer run off a wooden air stone that I converted to a Venturi system. Lol
It was plumbed with 3 fluvals that were run recirculation style, Had a hang on the back down to a wet dry filter with the bio balls. And that was top-of-the-line back then

I worked at a fish store that had salt water and mostly corals at that time we're LPS, pretty rare to see anything SPS because it wouldn't live.

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Yeap the sps was hard to keep for r sure
And you are right elk the equipment that you had was top of the line

ivan · Mar 9, 2017

I remember when they were selling live rock for $8.99 per pound but that rock was full of algae and like pods,crabs and worms 🐛 hahah

Lionshooter20 · Mar 9, 2017

That was the premium stuff

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ivan · Mar 9, 2017

Lionshooter20 said:

Yeap it was good **** till you got some of the pistol shrimp &#55356;&#57188; and then you were fck

Lionshooter20 · Mar 9, 2017

You r so right! I triple bagged a baby one for a customer and **** made me bleed through the bags!!

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ivan · Mar 9, 2017

Lionshooter20 said:

Hahah good stuff

SantaMonicaHelp · Mar 30, 2017

ivan said:

Hey Ivan,

Looking nice

What fish do you have? How is the tank now?

Zhenya

ivan · Mar 30, 2017

SantaMonicaHelp said:

I only have few fish now some anthias and clown fish and some yellow tanks.
The tank was sold and I got a 180 then I downgrade to a elos 70 that one was upgraded to elos 160xl and now it's going to be appeared to a elos 480xl
Just need to do some work on my floor before I do anything with the big tank

lowbudget · Mar 31, 2017

thanks for sharing [MENTION=719]ivan[/MENTION]. the infamous rock wall. love it.

i remember the anything with color other than brown was better than slice bread. then purple was the color to have. now if it not from a specific vendor its a fake. lol..

mmorimoto · Apr 4, 2017

Wow. So much has changed in just a few decades

ivan · Jul 13, 2017

mmorimoto said:

Yes !!

djrice69 · Jul 13, 2017

lowbudget said:

thanks for sharing [MENTION=719]ivan[/MENTION]. the infamous rock wall. love it.

i remember the anything with color other than brown was better than slice bread. then purple was the color to have. now if it not from a specific vendor its a fake. lol..

Purple and blue

SchnitzelReef · Jul 13, 2017

Very cool!!

Tangwich · Jul 13, 2017

daaaam [MENTION=719]ivan[/MENTION]..how old are you bro? back in 94 i was still playing with my carritos and g.i. joes...granted i was a freshmen in high school but nevertheless. lol

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