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Lurking
05/03/2012, 01:06 PM
So I just recieved some old Aquatic magazines off of ebay from 1933- 1935. Man these are so cool. Just reading the articles from back in the day its amazing how much remains the same and on the flipside how much has vastly changed!

The advertisments are so awesome I just wanted to share some of them. I hope you think they are as nifty as I do.

http://i995.photobucket.com/albums/af72/JimmyK101/43ec1a12.jpg
http://i995.photobucket.com/albums/af72/JimmyK101/9639bc2c.jpg
http://i995.photobucket.com/albums/af72/JimmyK101/1ec2b6e3.jpg
http://i995.photobucket.com/albums/af72/JimmyK101/c6d48ad0.jpg
http://i995.photobucket.com/albums/af72/JimmyK101/dbd95c07.jpg
Lurking
05/03/2012, 01:07 PM
http://i995.photobucket.com/albums/af72/JimmyK101/d3d58a03.jpg
http://i995.photobucket.com/albums/af72/JimmyK101/61b9ac72.jpg
http://i995.photobucket.com/albums/af72/JimmyK101/c23fab33.jpg
Lurking
05/03/2012, 01:08 PM
Theres an ad in here for Coral as well. I wonder what you get for 20 cents? aptasia?

http://i995.photobucket.com/albums/af72/JimmyK101/97129862.jpg
Blitzburggirl
05/03/2012, 01:18 PM
Fish lice hhahahahahahahahaaha

Thank you so much for sharing!! :)

This really was fun to read through. When I was in middle school, before I could officially work, I worked at a pet store in my hometown. It had been in the same building for a very very long time. The store also had tons of different rodents and lizards and therefore had alot of old old less than watertight aquariums that had been saved, over the years, in the back warehouse waiting to be rodent homes and the like.

Many of them where the chrome type, with slate bottoms.. AND the little blue and white fish label was on them!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm 36, and I STILL remember that!
Devaji108
05/03/2012, 01:20 PM
sweet!
do i see a rimless tank?? amm rimless is SO Yesterday...
thanks for sharing
Blitzburggirl
05/03/2012, 01:26 PM
Duplicate. Sorry :)
kory1006
05/03/2012, 01:34 PM
That's awesome. They seemed to be pretty big on "chrome" and heaters back then.
Paul B
05/03/2012, 01:36 PM
Those corals were sold as dead, bleached pieces, I still have some as all tanks were decorated with them, mine also.
Lurking
05/03/2012, 01:37 PM
Fish lice hhahahahahahahahaaha

Thank you so much for sharing!! :)

This really was fun to read through. When I was in middle school, before I could officially work, I worked at a pet store in my hometown. It had been in the same building for a very very long time. The store also had tons of different rodents and lizards and therefore had alot of old old less than watertight aquariums that had been saved, over the years, in the back warehouse waiting to be rodent homes and the like.

Many of them where the chrome type, with slate bottoms.. AND the little blue and white fish label was on them!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm 36, and I STILL remember that!

Its to bad you dont have access to them anymore. I think more and more poeple are tossing that stuff out and its getting harder to find. We are trying to do an old school build using old equipment and have to search on ebay. We just got these in the mail a few days ago. Anyone ever use them? lol

http://i995.photobucket.com/albums/af72/JimmyK101/a676c2eb.jpg
http://i995.photobucket.com/albums/af72/JimmyK101/9ee4657e.jpg
Paul B
05/03/2012, 01:40 PM
I still have that green Hush air pump, I may have a few of them. I also had those slate bottom tanks with the metal sides.
Those advertisements are really cool. I am not old enough to have a tank from the 30s but I still have about 10 issues of my first magazines from the late 60s and early 70s.
I hate to admit it but I did have fish in the 50s

http://i258.photobucket.com/albums/hh270/urchsearch/scan0012.jpg
KafudaFish
05/03/2012, 01:56 PM
That is pretty cool.

The more things change.......

My parents have/had a slate bottom chrome aquarium at their house.
Allmost
05/03/2012, 01:59 PM
oh wow cool !

I was a banana back then...
Paul B
05/03/2012, 02:00 PM
I also used to use one of these.

http://i258.photobucket.com/albums/hh270/urchsearch/oldfilter.jpg
greech
05/03/2012, 02:21 PM
Look at those prices :)! That rimless is sweet!!!! Everything else is going retro these days so I wouldn't be surprised to see some companies try and revitalize these looks/designs.

Thanks for sharing!
Lurking
05/03/2012, 02:37 PM
I also used to use one of these.

http://i258.photobucket.com/albums/hh270/urchsearch/oldfilter.jpg

That thing is sweet do you still have it?
andyvalk
05/03/2012, 03:13 PM
The heaters were $2 back then and that's what almost all of them are worth now!
Paul B
05/03/2012, 03:38 PM
No I don't have that anymore but I may have that powerhead someplace. That iron thing was what powerheads looked like and obvious they were not submersible. Well they were, but only once.
SKurj
05/03/2012, 04:55 PM
At first glance those prices seem cheap, but they certainly aren't. Looks like aquarium keeping was certainly for the wealthy back then.

Really cool to see, thanks for sharing
Lurking
05/04/2012, 10:15 AM
At first glance those prices seem cheap, but they certainly aren't. Looks like aquarium keeping was certainly for the wealthy back then.

Really cool to see, thanks for sharing

It was an exspensive hobby back then and it still is lol!:headwally:
LobsterOfJustice
05/04/2012, 11:40 AM
I've got that same green air pump, my grandfather used it on his fish tank lol.

I've got one of his old fish magazines too, I think it's from the 50s, it talks about the new fad and the benefits of using live coral to filter your tank (for the week or two until it died) and as a food source for your fish. I'm guessing theyre talking about aiptasia, hydroids, and other LR hitch-hiker corals.