Who's the oldest reefer on the forum?

[beaslbob]

I'm an 18 year old man in a 60 year old body. I've had freshwater since 1960-61 (remember those slate bottom tanks with metal frames), and was sucked into saltwater in 2007.

my first tank didn't have the slate bottom but did have the metal frames.

 

[Fin]

I just turned 60! My first salt water tank was a 58 Oceanic in 1983. My first reef tank was a 75 in 1999. Currently, I have a 140, a 17 and a 7 gallon tank isiden a Pirate's Chest. .

A title of a Jimmy Buffett song - "I'm Growing Older, But Not Up." That's me.

 

[Rob Top1]

42 living in a 84 year old body with a 21 year old maturity.

 

[Mike in CT]

So it's looking good all us younger folk will survive our encounters with palytoxin to at least make it into our 60' s. Lol

 

[reefwiser]

I think we need an old timers forum. [emoji1]

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

53 here.

 

[Spinner]

57 with a 18 year old crack head body...lol
Been reefN 25 year's
Introduced the first patented REFUGIM to our hobby at a Las Vegas Aquarium show 1992 I believe.
Fully introduced both 3 and 4 chamber REFUGIUM's, and our hobby's first Back Pack REFUGIUM with skimming first chamber at MACNA X Long Beach.
Left the hobby from 1999 to April 2010 where I have been working on a Custom Build to date
I enjoy a killer reef tank for sure but my enjoyment in this hobby is design/building stuff behind the DT curtain Some say its a sickness I say its REEFn

 

[64Ivy]

60. Maintaining saltwater fish since '78, 'reeftanks' since '85 or whenever the heck that FAMA article came out...

 

[mfinn]

I remember those tanks.
I hated accidently resting my forearm on the edges. Most of the heaters or lights I had back then seemed to have a short in them.

 

[Rybren]

My first tank - including the slate bottom. I also learned a very important lesson with this one: Never place a aquarium next to a dart board...

 

[Paul B]

66, been reefing since 1971, fresh water since the fiftees

 

[toothman]

56 here

 

[Ace25]

I just assumed Paul B. was the oldest. Seems like I have been reading posts by him since the internet became available to the masses.

38 here, got started in 1989 when I was in high school. I fixed computers for the school and had a teacher ask me to look at a project he would like to do. Turned out, there was a secret room in a building that housed lots of saltwater stuff, several small sharks even. The tanks where just concrete 'tanks' in the ground that stood about 3' above the floor. The project I was asked to do was take an old IBM PS/2 computer, and write software to use a serial pH probe to monitor the pH of the tanks. From that point on I was hooked on saltwater. The high school now has a big aquarium that the public can visit. Cabrillo High School Aquarium

 

[Skynyrd Fish]

Ace25- that is a cool story.

I've been Reefing since 1990. I am currently 43. The most stable bomb proof tank I had was a 50 gal with half an under gravel plate with a power head. A wet dry, 3' air stone skimmer, live rock and caulurpa (pardon the spelling error). Tank had 3 tangs, a clown and 3 other small fish with a nice bunch of mushroom coral. I never had to clean the glass and would sell $25 worth of plants to the LFS monthly. I miss that stability. LOL.

 

[vlangel]

I believe I'm the oldest female at 55 Been reefing almost 6yrs.

I am right behind you Nana as I turn 55 in February. I've had FW since the 60s and got into SW and reefs in the late 90's.

 

[NanaReefer]

I am right behind you Nana as I turn 55 in February. I've had FW since the 60s and got into SW and reefs in the late 90's.

Your female too?! And 55?! Yahoo lol

 

[jhoop]

62 years Old. Saltwater for 4 years and Freshwater since I was a kid.

 

[vlangel]

Your female too?! And 55?! Yahoo lol

I am indeed and like you I am a grandma too!

 

[OrionN]

52 here. Salt water since 1980. Fresh water since the 60's.
I keep marine plants and inverterbrates since 1985 in a reverse flow undergravel filter around 1986.

 

[Paul B]

1985 in a reverse flow undergravel filter around 1986.

And I thought I was the only one :hat: