Archive for the ‘Aquarium Events’ Category
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 Rhinelander [...]
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, [...]
MARSH Membership Drive at T&T Fish and Reptile
I had another busy weekend of aquarium events. My local aquarium society, the Marine Aquarium and Reef Society of Houston (MARSHReef), held a membership drive at T&T Fish and Reptile during their annual Christmas sale. They had plenty of new livestock brought in specifically for this event and lots of raffle prizes. The owner of [...]
MARSHReef 2009 Christmas Party at Fish Gallery
Tonight I attended the 2009 MARSHReef Christmas Party at Fish Gallery. The party was catered by a Mediterranean cuisine company called Fadi’s, which was quite good. About 50 MARSHReef members attended the event, ate plenty of food, and wandered around the fish store, eying a lot of newly arrived livestock and a 25% off discount.
To [...]
DFW Coral Farmers Market
Tthe second annual Dallas Fort Worth Coral Farmers Market will take place on November 14th, from 10:30 am to 4 pm at the Holiday Inn Select North Dallas. This one day event will host up to 22 coral farmers and vendors from various states, including Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and even California. The “farmers” come [...]
