Old, Old, School the 1970's Aquarium

Chaz88

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skinless;200675; said:
did your fish have sideburns back in the day????
You know how they say people and their pets start looking alike? My fish normally grow sideburns just to fit in. Over the X-mas holiday we all started growing goatees also. :)
 

Chaz88

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Lund;204530; said:
When I read your post, I thought my dad had finnaly figured out how to surf the web!LOL. Only kidding. I just recently set up my dads old slate bottom heavy metal sided 30 gallon tank. All it needed was a resiliconing to stop leaks, and a little water, and presto! fish tank. My father helped me set it up the way he did when he was in the fish field. Thanks for the good post, it caused my dad many a minute of mirth and laughter.
fish safe silicone? Never heard of it back then. My tanks had the glass and/or slate glazed in with something like plumbers putty.
 

White Moth

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Just wondering if any of the slate bottom tank people have any pictures? I would love to see them. I can just remember a tank my neighbour had that had metal egdes to hold the glass. It was forgotten outside for years, till us kids filled it up. It leaked like crazy.
 

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Here's another of the older books some of you might have or can look for " EXOTIC AQUARIUM FISHES by WILLIAM T. INNES, L.H.D. first published in 1935 mine in 1956. It even has color plates in it. It was pubished in Phliadelphia. I think it was pretty advanved for it's time.
 

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MyGiants

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The good ole days with the chrome frame glass tanks held together with some black tar like stuff. The light hoods were even made of metal. I remember as a kid the hoods would get so hot you could literally fry a fish on it. Remember the weird glazing paint they used to put on the back glass. I'd scrap that stuff off and put the crinkled tinfoil on the back. I kinda miss those tanks. Actually the basic filter hasn't changed that much. There are newer styles of the old. The most advances in fish keeping has been in keeping saltwater fish alive longer then a month and growing coral. Back then if you kept a salt fish alive for a couple months you were a genius! But we learned that had to do with there capture with Cyanide.
 

sigaru

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slate bottomed tank..hm...i'm only 21 so i wasn't around when these were big, but i feel like i've seen one somewhere...with metal on the sides perhaps...this seems really familiar lol. and i still don't use chemicals. my water is well water so 0 chlorine, and i believe in prevention and old-fashioned [i guess] treatment of disease. i keep my temperature slightly warm [just above the midrange for my fish] and keep aquarium salt in the water. i know a lot of people say it is crap but i think it is a very handy tool when it comes to preventing and nipping things like bacterial infections in the bud. i've never had serious disease in my tanks. and if i see anything such as ich or a fungus forming, i catch it right away and treat with salt and heat. there was one time one of my puffers got a sort of fuzzy coating on his eye, and i took him out right away, hospitalized him, treated with heat and salt and left him in the tank two days past when it was no longer visible. and he was only out for four days total. i tend to not trust medicines with my pets.. but i'm a little paranoid
 
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