Longest running aquarium?

I got one i set up 7 years ago

 

Any pics of the older tanks?

 

Bump

 

i went in search of this paulB on reef central and found him couldnt find pics says he joined back in 2002 and in his signature it says currently seacube 7.8 gallon nano. is that the tank. sorry bout the stalker mode lol.

 

lol that cant be right 7.8 for 30 years rofl

 

lol, i had a dig around for it too.
think its 100 gal, and it headed as a 35 year old reef.
(hope its ok to post about it! feel free to edit me)

i wonder what the oldest living thing in the tank would be though, didnt think it really looked like 40 years of growth.

i think i've had my clown for about 3 years now, but the current version of his little water house is nowhere near that.

 

It's ok to talk about Paul's tank. He's still running a reverse undergravel filter. That's not an ideal form of filtration. However, he knows his system and makes it work.

 

I wasn't sure if it's ok to link to his thread, I know some forums don't allow linking to other forums directly. Hopfully some pics are ok? Especially since it's Paul! Here are two from his thread. The thread is titled "almost 35 year old reef pictures" it was started in 2005, so, now it is about 40years old.

He scuba dives and has collected a lot stuff himself, including the bottles.

 

Here's one more good one.

 

How about us local 3reefers? Any long lasting aquariums?