Found this in my old "fish box" in the attic. Not sure why I am holding onto this. Wonder if it still runs.
Im sure that I am too young to remember that.(I'm 22) but I bet it works.
I might fire it up this weekend. I recently threw out a small Hagen HOB from the 80s; interesting how little the design has changed 25 years later.
LOL I remember the days before HOB filters were invented. All we had was the little plastic boxes that went inside the tank that you filled with glass wool and loose charcoal, hooked up an air line to and the bubbles rising out of the vertical exhaust tube would pull water through the filter. The flow was so inefficient unless you had so much air going through it that it looked like an air gieser in your tank.
Also remember the only fish food was a corn meal like crud made by Wardleys that clouded your water no matter how little you used. LOL. Also metal framed tanks with slate bottoms and black petroleum based glue sealing them. Oh Jeees! We've come a LONG WAY since then. Now you know why I call myself "Old Scales". Hee Hee.
Somebody on my local CL has a steel framed tank with a slate bottom. It's a 75 I think and they've been trying to get rid of it for awhile.
LOL I remember the days before HOB filters were invented. All we had was the little plastic boxes that went inside the tank that you filled with glass wool and loose charcoal, hooked up an air line to and the bubbles rising out of the vertical exhaust tube would pull water through the filter. The flow was so inefficient unless you had so much air going through it that it looked like an air gieser in your tank.
Also remember the only fish food was a corn meal like crud made by Wardleys that clouded your water no matter how little you used. LOL. Also metal framed tanks with slate bottoms and black petroleum based glue sealing them. Oh Jeees! We've come a LONG WAY since then. Now you know why I call myself "Old Scales". Hee Hee.
OMG 98k!
Your "fond" memories are the same as mine. My airpump back then sounded like the barber's electric trimming shears and my tank was in my bedroom. LOL. I had forgot about Ben Franklin and also Woolworth's. Remember the "Balanced Aquarium Theory"?
We have fish spawning in our community tanks now that we only dreamed of spawning back then. I remember wading in ponds collecting wild daphnia and mosquito larvae to condition just zebra danios into spawning. Boiling cabbage and letting it "age" so as to grow infusoria for the fry. Fond memories my a**! Thank God for TECHNOLOGY! LMAO,
Old Scales.
Amen brother! I wish I still had my old meta-frame 10g. I'd set it up just as a conversation piece. Take care, see you around AA. OS.
LOL I remember the days before HOB filters were invented. All we had was the little plastic boxes that went inside the tank that you filled with glass wool and loose charcoal, hooked up an air line to and the bubbles rising out of the vertical exhaust tube would pull water through the filter. The flow was so inefficient unless you had so much air going through it that it looked like an air gieser in your tank.
Also remember the only fish food was a corn meal like crud made by Wardleys that clouded your water no matter how little you used. LOL. Also metal framed tanks with slate bottoms and black petroleum based glue sealing them. Oh Jeees! We've come a LONG WAY since then. Now you know why I call myself "Old Scales". Hee Hee.