The only way to be a true reef aquarium futurist is to also be a keen marine and reef aquarium historian. Along those lines there’s nothing we love more than super cool and neat high tech aquarium products than super old, clunky and antique aquarium devices, aquariums and especially steampunk air pumps.
As one of the first posts on their blog Tunze has a short recap of how protein skimming came into being and a little bit about how Tunze introduced the first commercial venturi protein skimmers way back in 1963, we’re talking really old school. If you like aquarium history, definitely take a look at Tunze’s blog post on the roots of protein skimming and keep an eye on the Tunze blog for the 50 year old German aquarium product manufacturer.
