Anyone Remember these Aquariums?

[SteveMM62Reef]

My First Saltwater Aquarium was in one of these, back in the mid-to late Sixties. My Dad and I were Epoxying some Pool Deck Furniture, and I Epoxied the frame where it could touch the Saltwater. Don’t remember the size of the Aquarium, but was considerably smaller than this Fifty-five Gallon.

 

[vetteguy53081]

My First Saltwater Aquarium was in one of these, back in the mid-to late Sixties. My Dad and I were Epoxying some Pool Deck Furniture, and I Epoxied the frame where it could touch the Saltwater. Don’t remember the size of the Aquarium, but was considerably smaller than this Fifty-five Gallon. View attachment 3049896

Yes and were called" Metaframe tanks" with a slate bottom

 

[jimk60]

I still have two of them in the attic a fifteen and a twenty. Slate bottom and all! Never used them for salt only fresh. Still have the stainless steel hoods also.

 

[hhaase]

My first tanks were both metaframes, back in the 70's (crap I feel old typing that). A 1-2 gallon in my bedroom as a kid with a goldfish, and we had a 55 in the living room with freshwater. The 55 even had the Metaframe Dyanflow filter on it.

Good memories.

 

[SteveMM62Reef]

I remember those Hoods, LOL. You only touched them once when they were damp. After that, you unplugged them. Didn’t remember the filter, till I looked it up and saw the stick with the cap, for filling the “U” Tube. No lights on my Saltwater tanks back then. My Aquarium was on a East side window, would use blinds to control the light.

 

[Reefer Reboot]

1969. I remember you could fry an egg on those hoods!

 

[Tcook]

I remember one of those in the bio classroom at community college in the early 80s had one with a piranha in it.

 

[mfinn]

Had those in the 50's and 60's.
dang things would light you up if you weren't careful, either from the light or the heater.

 

[bnord]

indeed - used them for salt in the late 70's - under gravel filters and incandesce lights...

thought the slate was a touch of class...

 

[Lowell Lemon]

My first fish tanks. Seems like we owned three over time! Blast from the past.

 

[Blue Spot Octopus]

We had a LFS that had them, we would walk around and touch two different tanks at the same time, sometimes you would get a little shock, of course my time to play I touched two tanks and all I remember was flying through the air and my friends looking down at me asking if I was ok.

 

[My600GallonLife]

I remember those at school

 

[KrisReef]

My mom gave me the 5-1/2 books of Blue Chip Stamps to get my first 5 gallon tank from the Blue Chip Stamp redemption center. I remember watching it come down on a roller rack from upstairs in their warehouse. I had a plastic corner bubble filter filled with charcoal and spun wool that I would change every week. We killed more fish removing the biological filter cleaning the tank too clean each time. Guppies and bunches of pond weed held together with a rubber band. I had to rebuild the air pump by replacing the flapper valves about once a month?

 

[Lowell Lemon]

My mom gave me the 5-1/2 books of Blue Chip Stamps to get my first 5 gallon tank from the Blue Chip Stamp redemption center. I remember watching it come down on a roller rack from upstairs in their warehouse. I had a plastic corner bubble filter filled with charcoal and spun wool that I would change every week. We killed more fish removing the biological filter cleaning the tank too clean each time. Guppies and bunches of pond weed held together with a rubber band. I had to rebuild the air pump by replacing the flapper valves about once a month?

Blue chip stamps...another trip down memory lane LOL!

 

[V A R I A N T]

My first tank was a Metaframe, with the metal lid and incandescent light. Even had a air driven bubble filter! The slate bottom was cool but what threw me for a loop was that it is sealed with tar!

 

[dennis romano]

I still have my 20 high that I bought in 1970. I thought "Wow, no more 10 gallon tanks!"

 

[fish farmer]

I remember one of those in the bio classroom at community college in the early 80s had one with a piranha in it.

My family's friend who was a HS science teacher unloaded to me three of those along with metal hoods, hob filters, heaters and old aquarium pamphlets in the early eighties. I had two 15 gallon and a 5 gallon. Of course me being 11 at the time, I started with piranhas. One fish smashed a heater and actually smashed the side of the tank and cracked it. That's when I upgraded to a 38. The other 15 gal actually made it to college in the late 80's.