pics of some of my grandfathers aquariums!!

[midnight]

cat enjoying a tank
looks like 4x2x2? then his special side filter too

 

[mshuangchao]

I don't know but you've got a cool grandpa

Definitely!!

 

[midnight]

oh,for the ones that dont know "cus i havent said it in this thread" lol

my gramps made all these tanks himself "along with my dads help on the big ones"


he has made tanks most of his life

"see why im into fish?" LOL

he would make an amazing tank,few months later get bored and sell it to maker another bigger better one

once he was hired to build every tank in a lfs,all the holding tanks and display tanks

 

[midnight]

True, they were the first canister filters introduced to the public around then. Took awhile for aquarists to get hip to the eheims. Too weird looking compared to hob and corner box filters. Kind of a scary concept having water hoses going to the tank lol.



Very good actually. People liked them because they were quiet. I think that the motors were made by the Singer sewing machine co. Had to keep them oiled.

cool info thanx

Definitely!!

thanx

 

[midnight]

my gramps taking a nap
im sure he wouldnt care one bit to have his face on the net but im weird

anyways
6x2x2 is my guess

 

[midnight]

never seen this in person
im guessing a filter
to bad no finished pix or pix with it setup

 

[Miguel]

It makes me remember when I started 30 odd years ago...but let me tell you from what I've seen in the pixs, your grampa was way ahead of his time....one gets the notion that he already was aware of latter day concepts and was trying with difefrent types of filtration..

Would love to know him!

Keep it up, please!

 

[greenterra]

What a cool thread.I bet he is a great inspiration for you.

 

[duke33]

What years did he do all this work midnight? Nice thread.

 

[midnight]

It makes me remember when I started 30 odd years ago...but let me tell you from what I've seen in the pixs, your grampa was way ahead of his time....one gets the notion that he already was aware of latter day concepts and was trying with difefrent types of filtration..

Would love to know him!

Keep it up, please!

ya when my gramps did something,he did it full blast
he knew his aquariums,thats why everyone went to him
i love his side filter/overflow design
i inherited all hit glass cutting tools so one day i might try to make a tank like these
and will do on more pix,later

What a cool thread.I bet he is a great inspiration for you.

very big inspiration to me
its hard to stop my gramps
fake knee,fake shoulder,i call him,bionic gramps

What years did he do all this work midnight? Nice thread.

no clue when he started making tanks but im sure it was way before these pix
the "brown" pix look to be from around 1978,or the 70's,i wasnt even born yet
and the newer pix were from the 80's-90's im guessing