- Location
- Queens, NY
A moment to introduce myself. My name is barnet, I live in northern Queens, I started my first aquarium in 1960. I do not currently have a tank, am thinking of setting up a nano reef, mostly coral and other invertibrates, perhaps a few fish, after the summer.
For any oldtimers, I worked full time/parttime at Aqua Stock in Manhattan from 1963 to 1971, perhaps someone remembers me. I had to take down my last tank in the late 1980's, just as the great modernization of marine keeping started to kick in. We had protein skimmers, but ran them with ozonated air. We used power undergravel filters for our bio-filtration, wet/dry filters and refugiums did not exist. We had UV, but its use was not well defined. Generally we used Diatomaeous Earth filters when we ran into trouble, dolomite was the substrate of choice, and NO ONE understood the importance of intense lighting to feed the algae in coral, anemones, etc. We measured success in marine keeping with a completely different yardstick than you do today. I have been reading the posts on this site for some months now, and I am completely blown away, my hat is off to all of you.
As I said, I am contemplating getting into the hobby again and expect to be asking qustions relating to theory, equipment and procedures from time to time in the Beginners Forum, and may have something to add the Freshwater Forum. In the mid 1960's I bred Apistograma ramirezii with sufficient regularity and quantity to supply 4 LFS in Brooklyn. Doesn't sound like much now, but rams were very exotic then, all fish available in NY were wild stock, and I was a teenager.
I hope this post is not too long
thank you :Lurking:
For any oldtimers, I worked full time/parttime at Aqua Stock in Manhattan from 1963 to 1971, perhaps someone remembers me. I had to take down my last tank in the late 1980's, just as the great modernization of marine keeping started to kick in. We had protein skimmers, but ran them with ozonated air. We used power undergravel filters for our bio-filtration, wet/dry filters and refugiums did not exist. We had UV, but its use was not well defined. Generally we used Diatomaeous Earth filters when we ran into trouble, dolomite was the substrate of choice, and NO ONE understood the importance of intense lighting to feed the algae in coral, anemones, etc. We measured success in marine keeping with a completely different yardstick than you do today. I have been reading the posts on this site for some months now, and I am completely blown away, my hat is off to all of you.
As I said, I am contemplating getting into the hobby again and expect to be asking qustions relating to theory, equipment and procedures from time to time in the Beginners Forum, and may have something to add the Freshwater Forum. In the mid 1960's I bred Apistograma ramirezii with sufficient regularity and quantity to supply 4 LFS in Brooklyn. Doesn't sound like much now, but rams were very exotic then, all fish available in NY were wild stock, and I was a teenager.
I hope this post is not too long
thank you :Lurking:
