what were popular aquarium fish in the 1970′s?
by scubaboy on Friday, March 25th, 2011 | 4 Comments
I’m trying to make an old school tacky 70′s aquarium, which I have done successfully with a bubbler, ‘no fishing sign’, and scuba diver, but I want to duplicate the 70′s fish too. Which fish were commonly sold in pet stores in the 1970′s? angelfish I’m assuming?? what else? I’m hoping older hobbyists will help me with this question. thx! ; )
What about tiger barbs, white skirt tetras & golden algae eaters? What type of algae eaters were used?
sharks xD
I remember angel fish, guppies, and swordtails. We also had the old style of carbon filter that sat in the tank on the bottom and bubbled. The scuba diver with the treasure chest that bubbled open. Neon colored rocks. A floating thermometer that you could never read.
Guppies, zebra danios, red wag sword tails, blue moon platys, kuhli loaches, that’s what I can remember being in my dad’s old slate bottomed stainless steel framed tank. If you can find one of those and a matching metal hood, along with an old style box filter(Drs. Foster and Smith have’em), you’ll have it nailed. You could probably substitute endlers for guppies, believe it or not, fancy guppies were NEW in the mid to late seventies.
There were many popular fish in the 1970′s but to name two are Green swordtail live bearers and Lyretail mollies and I can remember seeing for the first time baby piranhas.