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Tcook said:
Dolomite
Undergravel filters
Sicce plates were the hot thing
$60 blue damsels in 1970
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I still use dolomite and an Undergravel filter. :beaming-face-with-smiling-eyes:

My blue devils used to lay eggs every couple of weeks in these gooseneck barnacle shells.
I had 7 of them and they lived 7 years. :cool:

This is the male over his nest circa 1972.

 
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Paul B said:
I still use dolomite and an Undergravel filter. :beaming-face-with-smiling-eyes:

My blue devils used tolay eggs every couple of weeks in these gooseneck barnacle shells.
I had 7 of them and they lived 7 years. :cool:

This is the male over his nest circa 1972.

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Funny how that undergravel is still doing just fine and the high tech that replaced it (trickle filters or pressure canister packed with chemipure) is long gone. I think I still have my first edition of Martin Moe laying around somewhere.
 
When it was actually a hobby and not just a money grab.

And I’m not talking about corporate greed. It was the small time home businesses getting big by naming “rare” corals that showed corporate America they could exploit the hobby as well.
 
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I love this post. I am still running my tank old school with Halides and Southdown play sand from Home Depot. Premium Aquatics used to bring in skids of the play sand and they had 5 plastic swimming pools full of rock. Figi, marshall islands, Tonga. They had whole shelves of ballasts. I catch grief from the new guys because I do not have an APEX. I tell them my eyes are my APEX. I look at the corals and if something is wrong I fix it. I have never done an ICP test. Don't hate on me but I don't have a quarantine tank. I also do not buy Ich Magnets.

I like the new school alot with the technology. If I had a filter roller thing it would just tick me off. I just stayed with I know. Love this Hobby!
 
Deep sand beds were the go to for nitrate reduction, wavemakers weren't a thing, special timers were purchased to control everything, and measuring PAR values weren’t easy to do like today.
 
Tang22 said:
Deep sand beds were the go to for nitrate reduction, wavemakers weren't a thing, special timers were purchased to control everything, and measuring PAR values weren’t easy to do like today.
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That would be weird not having wavemakers!
 
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robanister said:
When I could walk out of lfs with a bucket full of inverts corals and fish for less than a hundo!
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I actually do remember this a little. I set up my first tank in 2017 and bought lots of beautiful fish and coral for little cost from my LFS.
 
AlyciaMarie said:
I actually do remember this a little. I set up my first tank in 2017 and bought lots of beautiful fish and coral for little cost from my LFS.
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Now imagine 1987 :rolling-on-the-floor-laughing:
 
GARRIGA said:
Now imagine 1987 :rolling-on-the-floor-laughing:
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I can't! I was negative 12 years old! :face-with-tears-of-joy: But I'm sure it was a dream...

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