In the hobby too long

[Paul B]

How do you know when you have been at this for too long?
When after you thought you threw everything out that you don't need, you have more than you started with.
Here are a few of the thiongs I just can't part with. I did not include 10 gallons of rock, miles of tubing and three or four tanks.

 

[Paul B]

 

[shipwrecked]

Is that an old diatom (glass) filter??? Those worked great!! Just like those old U tube hang on back with the big black motor filters...sorry...got carried away into my childhood days..lol

 

[GregW]

What? No Bio-Balls?

 

[Baxreefs]

I'd be embarassed to admit how much gear I have piled up over these last six years that this addiction has afflicted me.

... It's a mountain! :

 

[hurtback]

no room in the house or garage for these... the tanks i mean ( pots are always outside )
i also have a 125 with wooden cabinet in the garage
a 55 with wooden cabinet in the basement
a 60 with wooden cabinet in the shed
a 60 hex with wooden cabinet in the shed
and various lights, different sizes,different lengths , probably about 10 in number
a bunch of pumps and heaters

things do add up thru the years ( hey, is'nt that a song? )
steve

 

[jimroth]

Anyone want an old Sandpoint Controller? I did finally find a vintage Metaframe Dynaflo, unused. Any of you other dinosaurs have a SS frame tank, 10G or bigger?

 

[reefsandrotts]

Hey jim
My wifes step fathef has a 15 gallon ss with slate bottom.
Still holds water. Is that old enough for you

 

[Paul B]

things do add up thru the years ( hey, is'nt that a song? )

Yes it does, thats why I try to make good use out of my garbage cans.
I still have canvases from two boats ago which was about 15 years ago.

 

[jimroth]

Hey jim
My wifes step fathef has a 15 gallon ss with slate bottom.
Still holds water. Is that old enough for you

Is he willing to part with it, or does it have sentimental value?

 

[Paul B]

My wifes step fathef has a 15 gallon ss with slate bottom.

All fish tanks were made like that in the early 60s.
I had a bunch of them and they were not too cheap. The stainless steel ones are the new ones, before that the corners were black painted iron. My first salt tanks were that type and I had to paint the steel all the time but it did not help. They still leaked like a seive.
The original slate bottom tanks had slate bottoms because when tanks were invented in the late eighteen hundreds, there was no heat in homes and oil lamps were put under tanks to heat them.
They were still made like that for fifty years until silicone was invented so glass could be stuck to glass.
Even cars windshields were held in place with the same asphalt that old fish tanks were made out of.

 

[Baxreefs]

My first tank was a 5 g Metaframe, I was like 8, that was ... a while ago. The company was headquartered in my home town of Maywood, NJ!

This was my pile of fish stuff a few years ago ....

... it's ah ... er ... bigger now