What do you miss?
I was watching an old video I took about 15 years ago of my first sw tank, and it got me to thinking. Here's my list of my favorite things in the hobby that fell out of favor over time, what about you?
- Trickle filters. Nothing was more relaxing than watching water flowing into a trickle plate and cascading over a few cubic gallons worth of bioballs.
- Florida Live rock. Man, it was dense, but it was usually covered in christmas tree worms and other little goodies. Of course, it was also filled with some of the nastiest looking hitchhikers around (crabs, mantis shrimps, etc).
- Waiting for my monthly subscription of Freshwater and Marine Aquaria (FAMA) to arrive and seeing what Sprung was talking about in his Reef Notes column. Marine Monthly was another good one, but FAMA was a more polished publication.
- Red Sea's Berlin Skimmer. The revolutionary venturi driven "triple pass" design absolutely kicked butt compared to my Lee's wooden airstone skimmer.
Last edited by CoryDude; Mon, 16th May 2011 at 04:15 PM.
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