1974 AquaMod Inc. Aquarium Ad

Back to Gallery 1974 AquaMod Inc. Aquarium Ad An interesting aquarium concept from the 1970s. Unfortunately, acrylic aquariums were expensive to manufacture. Does anyone out there have one of these? Ad from the October 1974 edition of Pet...

1962 Aqua-Stock Ad

Back to Gallery 1962 Aqua-Stock Ad A full page ad from 1962 for Aquarium Stock Company’s tropical fish food. This ad features the famous guppy breeder, Paul Hahnel, who developed the first veil tail...

1971 LONGLIFE Ad

Back to Gallery 1971 LONGLIFE Ad The Longlife Aquarium product line was originally started in a pet shop but eventually sold to STERNCO Industries (Hartz Mountain). From the October 1971 edition of Pet Supplies Marketing...

1971 Pet Product Ads

Back to Gallery 1971 Pet Product Ads Two interesting advertisements. One for “pet memorials” where you can purchase a granite marker for your pet (never seen an ad like this before) and the other for “DINE-A-MATIC” automatic fish feeder from...

Valley Pet Supply

Back to Gallery Valley Pet Supply An ad for purchasing pet squirrels/chipmunks from California in 1971. Watch for an upcoming MOAPH video this year on historical squirrel cages and squirrels as pets. Ad from Pet Supplies Marketing magazine, October 1971...

Biozonics Filter

Back to Gallery Biozonics Filter One of the first companies to introduce “chamber” filtration on outside hang-on aquarium filters. From October 1971 edition of Pet Supplies Marketing...

Haddaway White Mist Air Pump Ad

Back to Gallery Haddaway White Mist Air Pump Ad Advertisement for Haddaway White Mist air pump in the December 1959 edition of Tropical Fish Hobbyist. The ad states that one model cost $15.95 and the other $18.95. In today’s money that would be $168.64 and...

Longlife Brine Shrimp (1969)

Back to Gallery Longlife Brine Shrimp (1969) For many years, the brine shrimp industry was controlled by the San Francisco Aquarium Society, that was until Sternco (Hartz Mountain), under the Longlife brand, started marketing brine shrimp from the Great Salt Lake of...

Sea-Monkeys in 1980

Back to Gallery Sea-Monkeys in 1980 Those of you who know of or have kept Sea-Monkeys want to smile and cringe at the same time. Obviously, a marketing major who thought “Sea-Monkeys” (AKA; brine shrimp) could be marketed in 100 different ways as pets! (Including a...

Peerless Aquarium

Back to Gallery Peerless Aquarium An ad for J.J. Halterberk’s “Peerless” Aquarium. A one piece all aluminum aquarium for which he recieved a patent. Someone wrote in $10 (tank price?) which would be $183 in today’s...