Throwback Thursday!! Show us a pic from way back when...

[Skullring]

Funny to think of 1994 as being way back when but here we are.

 

[Daniel@R2R Verified Admin]

BUMP! It's THURSDAY!!

 

[Viking_Reefing]

Managed to dig up a video of my second reef tank in the early 2000’s a while back

 

[brandon429]

pic of the first non evaporating sps and lps reef. I claim before this pic we cannot locate in any book or online reference a sealed reef tank that did not require any topoff for three years I had it. (the lid was lifted for feeding etc and water changes, but ran sealed day to day was the trick)

all the oxygen and co2 exchange occurred within a little section of caulerpa or chaeto inside behind the wall, that was lit 24x7 even when display lights were off at night.



First tabling acropora in a pico reef.
the zone that holds all the coral is two inches wide

 

[Battlecorals Verified Sponsor]

Cool! Here's my first frag tank! (called it a look down) made from a scrapped acrylic 150 gallon. DIY Calcium Reactor made from an old "berlin" skimmer. lol Complete with a DSB

 

[brandon429]

Hey for 2002 that curved edges setup looks like it was ahead of the game

 

[jp1986]

My 75 gal from 2003. Wasn't my first saltwater tank but first picture of one!

 

[Wiskey]

I have some to contribute! There are older tanks, but this is what I have access to right now.

This is when my 180 was Fresh Water:
100_6270 by Wiskey2727, on Flickr

And this is about a year later after I made it salt and moved everything I was growing out from my 125G:
180FTS by Wiskey2727, on Flickr

Whiskey

 

[chrisjj625]

First tank back in 2011

 

[mich2599]

My very first setup in 2018.

 

[Dcal]

I have some to contribute! There are older tanks, but this is what I have access to right now.

This is when my 180 was Fresh Water:
100_6270 by Wiskey2727, on Flickr

And this is about a year later after I made it salt and moved everything I was growing out from my 125G:
180FTS by Wiskey2727, on Flickr

Whiskey

thats one of the best planted tanks I've seen its so organized

 

[Perry]

I will play

70 gallon cube 2007

And my 120 gallon 2016, I miss that tank, my best yet

 

[Totlxtc]

My first reef tank, a 54g corner from 2002.

 

[Emerson]

This was my 50 gal tank around 2008 or 2009. Originally set up in North Carolina ~2002, I moved it to Virginia in 2005. Had to break it down when I moved to Texas in 2010. The rock wall aquascape is atrocious, but it was a hugely successful and simple tank. 6 x T12 VHO bulbs, a 20 gal long sump with no baffles, an airstone protein skimmer, and a Rio powerhead for a return pump; no supplemental flow. I used RO water (not RODI, but still ahead of the time), didn't dose anything, rarely did water changes, and rarer still checked parameters. I could never keep SPS alive (you can see a tiny frag of Birds nest and a pale frag of Superman Montipora) but I wish I still had that Frogspawn. I started with less than a quarter of what you see in this picture. It grew like crazy; I would sell of big 2-4 head branches for $50-75. Xenia for $20. Paid for my reefing habit for years.

 

[rknapp]

Bunch of tank shots from my original 90 gallon tank from 2009, which at that point was 14 years old.

 

[Wiskey]

thats one of the best planted tanks I've seen its so organized

Thank you Dcal! That was a really fun tank. It was actually fairly low maintenance too, I didn't run crazy high light, kept the CO2 low, and hardly dosed fertilizers. It was one of those systems I just got to enjoy because it hardly ever needed work.

Whiskey

 

[FranklinDattein]

Second tank from 2004.

 

[MIKE NY]

90 gal O’Dell tank about 1990... with power compacts and a Skilter filter soon upgraded to a Seaclone...LOL

 

[mfinn]

1988-1989

 

[MONTANTK]

This was one of my favorite tanks I’ve had just before it started leaking. Also right before I took a hiatus from the hobby