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Marine Aquarium Expo Going Down This Weekend

The Marine Aquarium Expo, a two-day event that has been dubbed the largest consumer event for the aquarium hobby in North America, takes place this weekend, April 6-7 at the O.C. Fair & Event Center in Costa Mesa, California. The event will play host to more than 70 exhibitors of aquarium livestock and dry goods, [...]

Marine Breeding Initiative Workshop Coming in July, Ticket Prices Increase Soon

If you’re a fan of captive bred marine ornamentals, then the Marine Breeding Initiative (MBI) has the event for you. The breeding centric club is hosting its fourth annual Marine Breeder’s Workshop on July 13, 2013 at the Cranbrook Institute of Science in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. The Saturday event will feature guest speakers Matthew Carberry [...]

LiveAquaria Offers Coupon on MACNA Tickets

It may only be March, but MACNA 2013 will be here before you know it and ticket prices won’t be coming down anytime soon. Fortunately, LiveAquaria and Doctors Foster and Smith have a nice coupon to help ease the burdens of all of those show expenses. By simply typing in the code located on the [...]

Why This Year’s Next Wave Was My Favorite

Being from Houston, the annual Next Wave conference hosted by the DFWMAS is always a welcomed sight. The show is within a moderate driving distance, and the guest speakers and coral vendors are always more than enough to make that drive worth while. But this year proved to be even more eventful than usual thanks [...]

MACNA 2013 Full Conference Passes Will Sell Out Soon

Heads up potential MACNA 2013 goers, the full conference pass to the show is almost sold out and this is just the second week of March. Ticket prices are set at $159 per full conference pass, which not only gets you access to the usual three full days of amazing aquarium equipment and livestock vendors, [...]

DFW NextWave Happening This Weekend

Single-day aquarium events are all the rage these days, with clubs all over the nation doing everything they can to bring the next big thing in the marine aquarium world right to their doorstep. While many clubs are just getting their events off the ground, the Dallas Forth Worth Marine Aquarium Society (DFWMAS) has been [...]

BAYMAC Ends Its Run of Annual Aquarium Conferences

All good things must come to an end, and as we’re finding out that saying holds especially true for the marine aquarium hobby. The Bay Area Marine Aquarium Conference, or better known by the acronym BAYMAC, officially announced yesterday on their Facebook page that their last event, which took place in 2011, would be their [...]

Be Careful Using the Bing Search Engine When Looking for Info on MACNA 2013

The world of search engine algorithms is a very confusing one. These large companies use special techniques to fetch data from websites and display the most relevant information to internet browsers. Most of the time, those searches go off without a hitch. But every once in a while, a search engine just plain fails. Case [...]

The 1st Annual Capital City Coral Corral Coming to Austin in April

If you’re like us and just can’t get enough of the aquarium conferences and trade shows, then you’ll be pleased to hear about the 1st annual Capital City Coral Corral. C4, as it is abbreviated, is a single-day marine aquarium conference based in Austin, TX and hosted by the Austin Reef Club. The event takes [...]

MACNA 2013 Banquet Gets More Entertaining with Master of Ceremonies, Richard Ross

The committee putting together the 2013 Marine Aquarium Conference of North America isn’t using the same old format that past shows have followed, but are shaking things up in a very interesting way. Besides having the perfect location for the event, what’s better than South Florida right, they are going to put their own spin [...]