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− | + | TheThe history of fishkeeping as we know it dates from the Victorian era. As British naturalists were exploring the world's exotic locations and sending back drawings and living and dead specimens of strange and wonderful aquatic creatures and plants, just as with tropical plants, people wanted to find a way to keep them in their homes. | |
==1950s== | ==1950s== | ||
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==1980s== | ==1980s== | ||
[[File:Dynaflo 150.jpg|thumb|The Dynaflo 150, shown without media plates or intake tube. The workhorse of American fishkeeping in the 1980s.]] | [[File:Dynaflo 150.jpg|thumb|The Dynaflo 150, shown without media plates or intake tube. The workhorse of American fishkeeping in the 1980s.]] | ||
− | By now the [[nitrogen cycle]] was relatively well understood. Companies like Eheim, Fluval, ''et al.'' were producing high quality canisters in many sizes in Europe, with some being imported to the US. In the US, | + | By now the [[nitrogen cycle]] was relatively well understood. Companies like Eheim, Fluval, ''et al.'' were producing high quality canisters in many sizes in Europe, with some being imported to the US. In the US, the "workhorse" power filter was the Dynaflo 150, a HOB, magnetically-driven filter which could be run as a "full flow" filter using two plastic plates to hold the media, or as a "disposable cartridge" filter. |
MarineLand entered the US market around this time with their AF-1 and AF-2 filters, which were upclass parallels to the Dynaflo 150 in the first case, and a double-size unit in the latter. They were quieter and more subtle, in the European tradition. | MarineLand entered the US market around this time with their AF-1 and AF-2 filters, which were upclass parallels to the Dynaflo 150 in the first case, and a double-size unit in the latter. They were quieter and more subtle, in the European tradition. | ||
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By now the large specialist pet stores that devoted 50% of their square footage to fish were closing. The "angel crash" of the late 80s never really ended. Tanks still sell at manufacturing cost all the way through the supply chain. | By now the large specialist pet stores that devoted 50% of their square footage to fish were closing. The "angel crash" of the late 80s never really ended. Tanks still sell at manufacturing cost all the way through the supply chain. | ||
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