My first tank! May 93

Look what I found while organizing some of my old pictures. On the back its dated May 93! (back when backgrounds and undergravel filters were popular).


I was 5 years old, so it was actually my dads tank ;D. Poor anemone, who knows how long it lasted .

 

WOW!! ya that anemone looks as white as the snow outside! lol cool find!

 

Im pretty sure its a Condylactis, so its not too bad.

 

looks like some of my early attempts

 

lol! what kind of lighting did they have back then?

 

This one was flourescent (not sure what kind though).

 

T10s mostly I recall you get maybe 4 across the back of average width tanks if you modified the hood and they also had individual refectors - and you had 1 ballast per tube so it really was belt and braces

 

the sun

 

I've seen sun lit tanks and in all honesty, they have no color if not supplemented. Lots of algae problems too... kind of a bummer.

 

Ive seen some beautiful ones using sola-tubes. Most use some vho's or T5s to add some blue spectrum, so there not that bad.Dont know about the algae though.