Re: NANFA-- antique aquarium stuff

Robert Carillio (darterman_at_hotmail.com)
Tue, 27 Nov 2001 22:12:30 -0500

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Nick... I know where you can get a tank like that!!! I just saw one in an
antique mall here.. It was selling for about 70.00 it was only a 15 gallon
tank, but it was just as you described!!!!

>From: "Nicholas J. Zarlinga" <njz_at_clevelandmetroparks.com>
>Reply-To: nanfa_at_aquaria.net
>To: "'nanfa_at_aquaria.net'" <nanfa at aquaria.net>
>Subject: NANFA-- antique aquarium stuff
>Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 02:19:49 -0500
>
>Your aquarium pump sounds neat! Antique aquaria collecting is sort of a
>small little cult that has been getting more and more popular. I have a
>friend who is really into it and has some neat pumps that are older than
>what you discribed. His pump has a vertical mounted disk that rotates by a
>magnet and works as a piston type pump. I have been collecting old
>aquarium periodicals for a while. It is neat to look at the ads from the
>early and mid 1900's to see the technology. One day I would love to set up
>a display which would show the history of aquaria keeping, using some of
>the old pumps that you are talking about. If you ever see an old aquarium
>with an iron frame and turrets on the for or six corners (for a hex tank)
>let me know! The old victorian tanks are getting rarer and rarer. Check
>out ebay and you will see more than you could ever imagine. Makes me wish
>I would have saved some of my childhood setups.
>
>Nick Zarlinga
>Aquarium Biologist
>Cleveland Metroparks Zoo
>216-661-6500 ex 4485
>
>"Fish worship... is it wrong??" (Ray Troll)
>
>
>Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 09:00:26 -0600
>From: "Hoover, Jan J ERDC-EL-MS" <HOOVERJ_at_wes.army.mil>
>Subject: NANFA--antique aquarium paraphernalia
>
>A friend gave me some old aquarium supplies that included an odd-looking
>air
>pump. The "VibraPower" pump is a single-outlet type but is large ( 16 x 8
>cm
>x 7 cm), heavy, with a gold-colored solid metal housing. It has a tiny
>intake port (with air filter) and two empty chambers at each end (to reduce
>noise?). Like automobiles of the 50s, it is oversized, overengineered,
>with
>plenty of working room around the motor. I am gussing it to be late 50s
>early 60s vintage.
>
>This has me wondering what happens to all the historical artifacts of the
>aquarium hobby. Does anyone collect old aquarium paraphernalia ?
>
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