When Did This Hobby First Take Off?
- Thread starter Luke.
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The last wing ding I was with had 3 salt tanks and that was 22 years ago. We got the fish from bill when he was over by warncliffe road by the old Home Depot .hulley gulley was there to
EricTMah
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I've been keeping fish/corals for over 25 yrs
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Come on your barely over. 25!
EricTMah
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I wish!
Got my first tank when I was 15. Had brackish water for about 3 months. Then converted to marine and the rest is history.
Funny story. When I first started at Big Al's with @OrcaSB in kitchener when I was 21. I couldn't sex a swordtail even. That's how quickly I converted to the salty side
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Wiki - In the Roman Empire, the first fish to be brought indoors was the sea barbel, which was kept under guest beds in small tanks made of marble. Introduction of glass panes around the year 50 AD allowed Romans to replace one wall of marble tanks, improving their view of the fish. In 1369, the Hongwu Emperor of China established a porcelain company that produced large porcelain tubs for maintaining goldfish; over time, people produced tubs that approached the shape of modern fish bowls.[3] Leonhard Baldner, who wrote Vogel-, Fisch- und Tierbuch (Bird, Fish, and Animal Book) in 1666, maintained weather loaches and newts.[4]
Saltwater
Wiki - In 1832, Jeanne Villepreux-Power, a pioneering French marine biologist, became the first person to create aquaria for experimenting with aquatic organisms. In 1836, soon after his invention of the Wardian case, Dr. Nathaniel Bagshaw Wardproposed to use his tanks for tropical animals. In 1841 he did so, though only with aquatic plants and toy fish. However, he soon housed real animals. In 1838, Félix Dujardin noted owning a saltwater aquarium, though he did not use the term.[5] In 1846,
Popular saltwater
Wiki - Germans soon rivaled the British in their interest. In 1854, an anonymous author had two articles published about the saltwater aquaria of the United Kingdom: Die Gartenlaube (The Garden House) entitled Der Ocean auf dem Tische (The Ocean on the Table). However, in 1856, Der See im Glase (The Lake in a Glass) was published, discussing freshwater aquaria, which were much easier to maintain in landlocked areas.[13] In 1862 William Alford Lloyd, then bankrupt because of the craze in England being over, moved to Grindel Dammthor, Hamburg, to supervise the installation of the circulating system and tanks at the Hamburg Aquarium.[citation needed] During the 1870s, some of the first aquarist societies were appearing in Germany.[14] The United States soon followed. Published in 1858, Henry D. Butler's The Family Aquarium was one of the first books written in the United States solely about the aquarium.[15] According to the July issue of The North American Review of the same year, William Stimson may have owned some of the first functional aquaria, and had as many as seven or eight.[16] The first aquarist society in the United States was founded in New York City in 1893, followed by others.[14] The New York Aquarium Journal, first published in October 1876, is considered to be the world's first aquarium magazine.[17]
Saltwater
Wiki - In 1832, Jeanne Villepreux-Power, a pioneering French marine biologist, became the first person to create aquaria for experimenting with aquatic organisms. In 1836, soon after his invention of the Wardian case, Dr. Nathaniel Bagshaw Wardproposed to use his tanks for tropical animals. In 1841 he did so, though only with aquatic plants and toy fish. However, he soon housed real animals. In 1838, Félix Dujardin noted owning a saltwater aquarium, though he did not use the term.[5] In 1846,
Popular saltwater
Wiki - Germans soon rivaled the British in their interest. In 1854, an anonymous author had two articles published about the saltwater aquaria of the United Kingdom: Die Gartenlaube (The Garden House) entitled Der Ocean auf dem Tische (The Ocean on the Table). However, in 1856, Der See im Glase (The Lake in a Glass) was published, discussing freshwater aquaria, which were much easier to maintain in landlocked areas.[13] In 1862 William Alford Lloyd, then bankrupt because of the craze in England being over, moved to Grindel Dammthor, Hamburg, to supervise the installation of the circulating system and tanks at the Hamburg Aquarium.[citation needed] During the 1870s, some of the first aquarist societies were appearing in Germany.[14] The United States soon followed. Published in 1858, Henry D. Butler's The Family Aquarium was one of the first books written in the United States solely about the aquarium.[15] According to the July issue of The North American Review of the same year, William Stimson may have owned some of the first functional aquaria, and had as many as seven or eight.[16] The first aquarist society in the United States was founded in New York City in 1893, followed by others.[14] The New York Aquarium Journal, first published in October 1876, is considered to be the world's first aquarium magazine.[17]
heath
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you have too much time on your hands...lol..
I was thinking about this the other day. My dad was into freshwater since I was born so I started off young with that. I got my first saltwater tank at 11. So it has been 30 for me. I started off with damsels and a long spine urchin. I actually had it till last year when it finally passed. It was so old it was more Gray then black. Lol
It is amazing how some things have changed. When Eric and I were early into the hobby people though substrate was crazy talk. When I researched how Europeans do it I looked at adding deep sand beds and refugium and people thought I was crazy. Lol
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EricTMah
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My Dad got me hooked on aquariums when I was a round ten years old. He came from Germany where as we all know the hobby is huge! I got my first job at a fish store (National Aquarium in Cambridge) in 1984. I can tell you one thing, the hobby was in its heyday back in the 80's and early to mid 90's and has been in decline ever since (sadly).
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I think Big Als opened shortly after that store shut down. It was after Bishopsgate and on the right hand side if you're driving towards pine bush. It was in a strip plaza. I bought my first plastic tube with a wood air stone for over hundred dollars, the called it a skimmer. Salt creep was a real thing.
I'm so old I used to go to the under age roller rink on hespeler Rd one night a week they turned it into a dance club. Called styles ?
I'm so old I used to go to the under age roller rink on hespeler Rd one night a week they turned it into a dance club. Called styles ?
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AdInfinitum
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- Thorndale, Ontario
My Grandfather kept a Sw tank out on his front porch in Jakarta Indonesia in the 1930's...
More recently friends of mine, Grant and Sue Armstrong were among the first wholesalers/distributors of SW in the province dealing directly with collectors...It was funny decades later going into ReefRaft and seeing Jay and remembering him from late nights at Toronto Airport waiting for planes from Indo or the Philippines so long ago.
But the big mainstream boom around here was Finding Nemo.....Suddenly SW was on the radar for the masses.....
More recently friends of mine, Grant and Sue Armstrong were among the first wholesalers/distributors of SW in the province dealing directly with collectors...It was funny decades later going into ReefRaft and seeing Jay and remembering him from late nights at Toronto Airport waiting for planes from Indo or the Philippines so long ago.
But the big mainstream boom around here was Finding Nemo.....Suddenly SW was on the radar for the masses.....