Stuff that's changed

[Bill S]

What's your biggest change from when you started to now?

Are you KIDDING? Have you READ my signature? The magazines were chiseled in stone!

OK, from the early 70's:

BIG tanks were 55s. I mean, you were living big, with a 55. I worked in a LFS from 8th grade thru college. We got an 8' tank in, and just laughed about it.

Lighting was a single plain old "gro-lux" fluorescent tube. All tanks had undergravel filters with dolomite on top of them. That was it.

If you had the money, you could afford to buy a coral. A BLEACHED coral - and every month or so, you took it out and soaked it in some bleach to turn it white again.

We had HOB filters - usually Marineland Supremes (you had to special order the SW version that didn't have metal screws).

We did run carbon, and we did have skimmers. They were tiny by today's comparison, and had birch wood blocks that served as airstones.