Archive for the ‘Aquarium Events’ Category
Who is Going to MACNA?
Obviously the big thing on everyone’s mind right now is the Marine Aquarium Conference of North America, otherwise known as MACNA. This year’s conference, just like all those held in the past, is going to be a huge ordeal. MACNA 2010 will be in Orlando and is being hosted by ORCA, the Orlando Reef Caretakers [...]
Vertex Pro-Bio Pellets
Vertex Aquaristik, a company that has absolutely exploded onto the aquarium products market, has released their own version of the Bio Pellets. The pelletized carbon source has recently become a very popular aquarium item. The pellets are placed into a media reactor and allowed to tumble gently in the water flow. The polymer-based pellets degrade [...]
IMAC West conference “Postponed”, rescheduled for May 2011
The 2010 International Marine Aquarium Conference (IMAC) West conference that had been scheduled for the end of this month has been canceled. A page on the IMAC website cites “unforeseen circumstances and the resulting time constraints”, and claims that the conference will now happen every two years starting in May 2011. All five conference organizers [...]
Interzoo In Germany Starts Today
Interzoo, the largest pet expo in the world, officially starts today! This year’s event, which is the 31st annual Interzoo, will be held in Nurnburg, Germany for the next three days. The event will be a gathering place for experts from all across the pet industry, including experts in aquariums, terrariums, horses, cats and dogs, [...]
Marine Aquarium Expo This Weekend
The Marine Aquarium Expo (MAX) is happening this Saturday, April 10-11 in Costa Mesa, California. The event will feature a ton of aquarium product manufacturers and vendors, as well as several guest speakers like Bob Fenner, James Fatherree, Justine Credabel, Robert Di Marco, and more. And to top off the event, there will be numerous [...]
Reef Stock Aquarium Event Happening Today
Fellow bloggers ReefBuilders has partnered up with the Downtown Aquarium in Denver, Colorado to put on an aquarium conference, called Reef Stock. The event is a single-day conference featuring Dr. Paul Whitby, Scott Fellman, and Richard Ross as the speakers. Reef Stock will also have several vendors and the usual aquarium conference raffle. Tickets are [...]
Behind the Scenes at Moody Gardens
My local aquarium club, MARSHReef, got to take a behind the scenes tour of the Aquarium Pyramid at Moody Gardens. The tour was nice, but nothing new for me since I worked there in college. The display tanks weren’t in the greatest shape, but we have to remember that Moody Gardens and the entire southeast [...]
Pics From Next Wave
As promised, our AquaNerd operative has delivered on the pictures from Next Wave. While at the event, our friend also won several items from the raffle, including a Digital Aquatics Reefkeeper Lite. See pictures of the event in the gallery below. All pictures were taken with an iPhone.
Open House at the Drs. Foster and Smith Aquaculture Facility
© 2010 Foster & Smith, Inc. Reprinted as a courtesy and with permission from http://www.LiveAquaria.com LiveAquaria announced today, via their Facebook Page, that they will be hosting several Open Houses at their Aquaculture Facility in Rhinelander, Wisconsin. This is a great opportunity for hobbyists to see how the pros do it. If you’re in the [...]
Next Wave in Dallas
The Next Wave aquarium conference is being held today at the Addison Convention Center and hosted by the Dallas-Ft. Worth Marine Aquarium Society, or DFWMAS for short. I unfortunately cannot make the event, but we do have an AquaNerd operative at the conference rubbing elbows with some of the aquarium industry’s finest, including Jim Walters, [...]
