Pictures from MACNA XVIII

[Rendos]

Having a BIG time in Texas. This has been a great MACNA so far. Here are a few pictures of what we are seeing...
ORA fishies and corals.
http://fishman.smugmug.com/photos/97279406-L.jpg
http://fishman.smugmug.com/photos/97279407-L.jpg
http://fishman.smugmug.com/photos/97279402-L.jpg
http://fishman.smugmug.com/photos/97279404-L.jpg
Red Sea's AquaCube
http://fishman.smugmug.com/photos/97279394-L.jpg

[Rendos]

Italian wavemaker...really seems like it just moves the top few inches of water, but cool.
http://fishman.smugmug.com/photos/97279392-L.jpg
Really thin tank...kinda cool but not very practical...
http://fishman.smugmug.com/photos/97279396-L.jpg
http://fishman.smugmug.com/photos/97279397-L.jpg
More ORA stuff...
http://fishman.smugmug.com/photos/97279401-L.jpg
Raffle items...
http://fishman.smugmug.com/photos/97279414-L.jpg
Entrance to the vendor area...
http://fishman.smugmug.com/photos/97279416-L.jpg

[Rendos]

Wave2K and an automatic fish acclimator...
http://fishman.smugmug.com/photos/97279419-L.jpg
MARSH club's frag selling area...
http://fishman.smugmug.com/photos/97279424-L.jpg
Wavy Sea...
http://fishman.smugmug.com/photos/97279425-L.jpg
Lots and lots of corals for sale...Extreme Corals . com setup...
http://fishman.smugmug.com/photos/97279426-L.jpg
Some interesting tanks...
http://fishman.smugmug.com/photos/97279431-L.jpg
http://fishman.smugmug.com/photos/97279432-L.jpg
Some really cool light fixtures...
http://fishman.smugmug.com/photos/97279433-L.jpg
http://fishman.smugmug.com/photos/97279434-L.jpg
http://fishman.smugmug.com/photos/97279391-L.jpg

[joeycadre]

WOW!

[aharvey]

if anybody is giving away free samples... hook a brother up

[Rendos]

Some more...
Big skimmer from Deltec...
http://fishman.smugmug.com/photos/97279400-L-1.jpg
Bigger skimmer from EuroReef...
http://fishman.smugmug.com/photos/97351694-L.jpg
Big Bubble King...
http://fishman.smugmug.com/photos/97350984-L.jpg
Andy's coral...maybe
http://fishman.smugmug.com/photos/97351004-L.jpg
A few corals...
http://fishman.smugmug.com/photos/97351001-L.jpg
Jellyfish...anyone?
http://fishman.smugmug.com/photos/97350992-L.jpg

[aharvey]

it's pretty but i have no idea what it is?

[Rendos]

A few more...
My coral...
http://fishman.smugmug.com/photos/97350989-L-1.jpg
PFO LED lighting...
http://fishman.smugmug.com/photos/97351021-L.jpg
http://fishman.smugmug.com/photos/97351022-L.jpg
Maxi-Jet mod...
http://fishman.smugmug.com/photos/97351025-L.jpg

[aharvey]

i like yours too.
purple or blues would be nice

[Rendos]

Want more still?
Don't you wish you came, too?
hehehe
Fans...
http://fishman.smugmug.com/photos/97350920-L.jpg
Corals...
http://fishman.smugmug.com/photos/97351007-L-1.jpg
http://fishman.smugmug.com/photos/97351010-L-2.jpg
http://fishman.smugmug.com/photos/97350936-L-1.jpg
a fish...
http://fishman.smugmug.com/photos/97351011-L-1.jpg
more corals...
how about a $900 Superman? They got one...
http://fishman.smugmug.com/photos/97350934-L-2.jpg
micromussa fans...
http://fishman.smugmug.com/photos/97350910-L-1.jpg
http://fishman.smugmug.com/photos/97350933-L-2.jpg

[aharvey]

get the superman.
i'll split the cost but we'll have to frag it to death

[Rendos]

http://fishman.smugmug.com/photos/97350932-L-1.jpg
you like clams?
http://fishman.smugmug.com/photos/97350874-L-1.jpg
symphillia...
http://fishman.smugmug.com/photos/97350906-L-2.jpg
montipora capricrazy...
http://fishman.smugmug.com/photos/97350875-L-2.jpg
Crayola SPS...
http://fishman.smugmug.com/photos/97350937-L-1.jpg
Don't like Superman? What about Spiderman?
http://fishman.smugmug.com/photos/97350941-L-1.jpg

[aharvey]

I didn't send enough money.
I did tell you I neede a receipt didn't I?

[Rendos]

More equipment? LED lighting from Current USA...
http://fishman.smugmug.com/photos/97350961-L.jpg
Controllers for $800-$1000
http://fishman.smugmug.com/photos/97350953-L.jpg
Software interface that connects you to your tank via the internet...
http://fishman.smugmug.com/photos/97350955-L.jpg
Okay...more corals...
http://fishman.smugmug.com/photos/97350939-L-1.jpg
http://fishman.smugmug.com/photos/97350942-M-2.jpg
http://fishman.smugmug.com/photos/97350943-L-1.jpg

I think that is it for now. Must go look at more stuff...

[aharvey]

1 clam, the montipora capricrazy, and the Crayola SPS please!

[Blindside]

tHANKS rICHARD SURE WOULD LOVE TO BE THERE!

[crpeck]

Thanks SOOOOOO much of thinking of us poor souls left behind while you have so many amazing things to see.

Awesome pics Richard!

Thanks for sharing. They do make me wish I was there.

Cathy

[Rendos]

Cathy - Steven Pollack (CoralDynamics) says "Hi".
He of all people had a blue ridge coral that I bought. Very nice sized frag for $25.00. It is not a rare coral or anything, and really looks better dead than alive, but I like 'em.
Andy - I got you a Crayola frag...the bigger pieces were too expensive. Dave will have some Capricrazy Monti's soon enough. I think I recall seeing a few back there.

[aharvey]

whatever you get is cool with me .
from the pictures you have, everything there is awesome

[crpeck]

Please give my best to Steven. He is a heck of a nice guy!

Now I do wish I was there because I'd really like to meet him. I feel like I know him after all the help he gave me talking me through raising the baby clowns.

I've got my nano going now with MH so I can have SPS for the first time. If Steven wants to send me anything or if you want to bring back any souvenirs .....hint ..... hint .... I'd be grateful.

Ask Steven how "Lucky" is doing and you'll make his day.

Glad you're having a great time. I'm really jealous about now.

[loweryster]

This is awesome
thank you:D

[drummereef]

Ah, that Jelly tank is saaweeeeeet! :D

[dc]

Awesome pictures, thanks for sharing. :D

[teena]

they have the raffel sunday i hope one of you come home with something nice, maybe that jelly fish tank

[Dirtball]

Richard its a good thing you are wearing shorts with all those pockets so you can fit enough stuff in them to share with all of us poor folk that didnt get to go. The pics are great. Thanks Brandon

[Dirtball]

Richard if they have any nice Florida rics that I wouldnt have to fight Lisa over I would be glad to get a couple of them and make it fair to you when you get back. Thanks Brandon

[masterswimmer]

Great commentary. Thank you for taking the time to keep the rest of the reefing world abreast of all the happenings. Have fun.

swimmer

[Fragmented]

Have the results of the salt study been revealed by Eric Borneman yet?

[crpeck]

Wow, Richard.

Seems you're the star reporter for all of Reef Central at MACNA this year. There are at least 2 links to this thread from the general forums and you've got over 860 views here.

Okay West Tennessee reefers .... we'd better behave for a little while since we've got RC'ers from all over checking into our forum right now.

Maybe they'll like Dave's tank sitting tips.

;)

[Fragmented]

Found the results here:

http://archive.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=936493

[melev]

Great pictures. Good job! :thumbsup:

[bshumake]

Hey everyone. I drove in straight from Houston last night. 11 hours straight. I left at about 6PM and got in at 5AM this morning. This being my first MACNA I absolutely had a great time. Driving sucks a bit but I got all my orals home and the floated till now. I'm acclimating and dipping. Well, I was the big winner of the raffel for our club. I won an Blue maxima, an Eric Borneman frag pack (5 pieces) and the piece de resistance... a pair of ORA Picasso Clowns. The pair that they were gonna give me were dead-ish so the Sales manager Vince Rado graceously offered to send me a pair once he got back home. Thank you very much Vince, i'm on pins and needles for your e-mail!
I also got some samples from Blue Life (a company based in LA) for Phosphate remover and Aptasia control (it also works on Majano for a complete kill). Being a medical technologis with an extensive background in organic chemistry I spent probably an hour talking to them and I'm really interested in their product line. Its not out in full circulation but I'm really looking forward to what they have to offer! All of the vendors were really pleasant and many made donations (and more plan on making some) to our St Jude Project! I'll post more later on that!

[crpeck]

WOW! Congratulations Barrett!

Does the color form on the Picasso Clowns pass on to the babies?

[bshumake]

1-2%
The other 99-98% are regular Osc.

[eyebedam]

those pics are fraggin sweet.

[Tomzpc]

Excellent shots Richard! Thanks for sharing and for getting a couple with us HVRK guys in there! =) I remember when you took that pic by the Deltec booth and thinking "we were in that guy's shot". LOL.

[Apon]

great pics! which vendor had all those clams?

[eddybabyhd]

reefsavers

[original-reefland]

Anyone have issues getting critters home with the "no liquids" restrictions on the airlines?

[scarson61]

Rich, here was our synopsis of getting the corals on the airline-- Overall a good experience:

We had to check the corals since they were in liquid. The ticket counter person asked us what was perishable in our boxes. She didn't blink an eye when we told her it was corals and she then proceeded to put extra tape on the boxes for us!.:rollface: Our luggage was too heavy to fit the styrofoam coral boxes, so the boxes went as a separate piece of luggage. We did have a some leakage which I believe was caused by the pressure changes and not by rough handling. The bags containing the corals were pretty taut so when the pressure changed I think it caused some of the bags to 'pop' and get holes in them, however each baggy still contained at least a little water. I'm not sure how to avoid this--thicker bags maybe. Regardless of this, the corals made it home safely and are doing great in our tanks

[Rendos]

Glad I could go, and share with everyone who did not attend.
I drove so I do not have any commentary on the airlines handling of live goods. I do have a couple of comments...

First - MARSH - great job on just about everything involved with this MACNA. The hotel, and facilities were top notch. The vendor area was great...lots of vendors with lots of great stuff to show. I noticed a lot of companies showing their edgeless tanks, the Jelliquarium was cool, the trimless tanks (euro style) are finally making an appearance here in the states. I love 'em. Food was good, presenters/speakers were excellent. Wish I knew more Spanish as Houston (much like the rest of the country) is full of Spanish speaking people.

One place that I think everyone was a bit disappointed...RAFFLES. The prizes were great, but I think it would behouv future MACNA hosts to only allow ONE winner per raffle. If you were there you know what I am talking about. EuroReef generously donated a whopping 55 protein skimmers to the raffle, but one individual won 12-15 of those. He placed all his tickets in the bowl for that raffle. It was funny the first time, second time, and maybe slightly humorous the third time, but by the 4th, 5th, 12th, etc. time it was disheartening to the rest of us who did not win.

I hope MARSH will not take this in a bad way...it was not their fault that this happened, but for future shows, PLEASE change the way this is handled.

Vendors of live stock - please take note.
Extreme Corals had a system of tagging the items that were sold for those who were not picking up items until the end of the show...many others did not. There were a few issues of people coming back to pick up their items, and they were given to someone else. This is an easy fix. Give people receipts.

Kudos to Extreme Corals for their professionalism in this area. They seemed to be the most organized.

Now - on to what I picked up. : )
FragFarmer - Acropora plana...SWEET! I love it.
Coral Dynamics - Blue Ridge coral, red table acro, and Monti Vietnamensis. Sweet!
The guy selling Bermuda skimmers - Platygyra, and really sweet Monti sp. - sorry I forgot your name, and the company name, but I really enjoyed talking with you and your wife(?) throughout the show.
ReefSavers - nice pink zoos with grey skirt. Really nice.
P.S. - credit to you for bringing the Clams. Clams Direct was mentioned during the raffle for bringing the clams....it was not Clams Direct.
MARSH - Nice yellow Porites.
Extreme Corals - 5 items. Huge piece of Monti. (green with blue polyps), Superman Monti frag, Poker Stars Monti frag, and a couple of others. (like Acropora Sarmentosa frag - drool)

Thanks to all the vendors, all the speakers, all the attendees, and most of all to MARSH. This was a HUGE undertaking, and you deserve recognition.

Richard

[Rendos]

Forgot someone.
Aquarium Specialty - Purple Monti digitata, and Purple w/green polyp acro.

[original-reefland]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8220260#post8220260 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Rendos
EuroReef generously donated a whopping 55 protein skimmers to the raffle, but one individual won 12-15 of those. He placed all his tickets in the bowl for that raffle. It was funny the first time, second time, and maybe slightly humorous the third time, but by the 4th, 5th, 12th, etc. time it was disheartening to the rest of us who did not win.

That happened at IMAC this year as well in raffle with Ora items. Some guy won something around 60% of the clams raffled and when we had a sigh of relief from another name drawn.... it was his girlfriend/partner.

Really annoying.

[just dave]

IMO if the tickets were purchased and the drawing of said tickets was on the up and up, it's fair. Disheartening perhaps but fair. I mean if someone spends hundreds of dollars on tickets and places them all in one bowl he's going to have a better chance as opposed to someone who purchases the same amount of tickets and spreads them around or someone who purchases fewer tickets. We all know that. What would really be disheartening is to have purchased a lot of tickets and won nothing while standing next to someone who only purchased one ticket and did win something.

[bshumake]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8222622#post8222622 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by just dave
IMO if the tickets were purchased and the drawing of said tickets was on the up and up, it's fair. Disheartening perhaps but fair.
I think what Richard is getting at here is this guy is a store owner. When others are looking to win to benefit themselves and their system, thats one thing. But when you get 1/3rd of the same prize? Honestly, whats one person gonna do with 15 of the exact type of skimmer? I know. It'll be on his shelves for full price. It was fantastic for someone to have donated items like that, but next time I won't bother wasting my tickets on that item.

[just dave]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8222841#post8222841 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by bshumake
I think what Richard is getting at here is this guy is a store owner. When others are looking to win to benefit themselves and their system, thats one thing. But when you get 1/3rd of the same prize? Honestly, whats one person gonna do with 15 of the exact type of skimmer? I know. It'll be on his shelves for full price. It was fantastic for someone to have donated items like that, but next time I won't bother wasting my tickets on that item.


My point was that there is really nothing that can be done about that kind of thing happening without doing something that would be unfair or by limiting the number of tickets one can purchase or enter into any given drawing. Limiting the tickets would run counter to the goals of the raffle by limiting the revenue it generates and I think ,that in this case ,the revenue was given to a charity.

I certainly wouldn't let it sour an otherwise wonderful conference.

Who knows, maybe he is going to use them himself. Been by Lisa's place ( aka Seaworld Mississippi ) lately? It's possible. :p

[bshumake]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8223471#post8223471 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by just dave
My point was that there is really nothing that can be done about that kind of thing happening without doing something that would be unfair or by limiting the number of tickets one can purchase or enter into any given drawing. Limiting the tickets would run counter to the goals of the raffle by limiting the revenue it generates and I think ,that in this case ,the revenue was given to a charity.

I certainly wouldn't let it sour an otherwise wonderful conference.

Who knows, maybe he is going to use them himself. Been by Lisa's place ( aka Seaworld Mississippi ) lately? It's possible. :p
Oh I understand what you're getting at. I did have a great time and I'm glad i went. Course, after that I'm glad i only put 5 tickets into that pot though. And yeah, it would make things difficult to moniter. I haven't been to Lisea World lately but hearing them talk about it I immagine its hard to sleep with the constant crash of water.:eek1:

[ShaneV]

One place that I think everyone was a bit disappointed...RAFFLES. The prizes were great, but I think it would behouv future MACNA hosts to only allow ONE winner per raffle. If you were there you know what I am talking about. EuroReef generously donated a whopping 55 protein skimmers to the raffle, but one individual won 12-15 of those. He placed all his tickets in the bowl for that raffle. It was funny the first time, second time, and maybe slightly humorous the third time, but by the 4th, 5th, 12th, etc. time it was disheartening to the rest of us who did not win.

I hope MARSH will not take this in a bad way...it was not their fault that this happened, but for future shows, PLEASE change the way this is handled.

Thanks to all the vendors, all the speakers, all the attendees, and most of all to MARSH. This was a HUGE undertaking, and you deserve recognition.

Richard


Thanks for the support we appreciate it.

About the raffle, Im not sure what could be done to prevent this issue. The raffle was already almost 2 hours long, if we had to confirm single winners for items it probally would have added another hour to the process! It also wouldnt stop someone from splitting it amongst a bunch of buddys to accomplish the same thing! Im not sure on an answer here, but its something for PMASI to think about for next year!

[BrianPlankis]

Hey Richard,

Glad you like the porites! That is me in the MARSH frag booth! The big tall guy with the big belly!

This MACNA was SOOOO much fun, but I don't want to work the next one, I want to just watch presentations and get more cool free stuff and fabulous products at good prices :)

Now to figure out how to get to Pittsburgh cheaply :)

Brian

[marinelife]

I can not wait until next year, I am only a 4 hour drive from Pittsburgh

[marcrothschild]

Does anyone know where I can get some of those fans?

[FMarini]

BShumake-
May I ask where you got the numbers for the percent offspring from the Picasso Osc clowns? I ask because I recall the numbers being something like 1:1000 being the misbarred phenotype of the "picasso" variety. I believe they mention misbarred clowns were like 1%- but misbarred could be-well just misbarred not the extensive barring of the picassos.
Lastly, the "naked" clowns had even lower transmission- I recall specifically he said on the order of 1:10,000 was naked (bar less)
Beautiful fish thou- really neat

[bshumake]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8235361#post8235361 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by FMarini
BShumake-
May I ask where you got the numbers for the percent offspring from the Picasso Osc clowns? I ask because I recall the numbers being something like 1:1000 being the misbarred phenotype of the "picasso" variety. I believe they mention misbarred clowns were like 1%- but misbarred could be-well just misbarred not the extensive barring of the picassos.
Lastly, the "naked" clowns had even lower transmission- I recall specifically he said on the order of 1:10,000 was naked (bar less)
Beautiful fish thou- really neat
Well Richard and I were discussing the phenotype of a picasso earlier in the week and on a guess we came up with 2% being that it would have to be a co-dominant recessive gene. When I was talking to Vince about it he said that 1-2% of a breeding Picasso pair will have picasso children, leaving the other 99-98% to be Osc.

[Coraldynamics]

Hi Richard! It was a pleasure meeting you at the show and I am glad you are happy with your corals. I see where you decided to drive to the show, we did as well. Seeing the country is nice, though getting there quick is a bonus sometimes. In this case it just made more sense for us to drive with all the equipment and livestock.

Here is a shot of the FragMobile we took to MACNA as well as a couple of other shots...
http://www.rasoc.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=1724&stc=1&d=1158858057

A water change on the road...it also helped to lighten the load on the van
http://www.rasoc.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=1727&stc=1&d=1158858410

Bugs were bad thru Alabama and Mississippi
http://www.rasoc.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=1730&stc=1&d=1158858969

A shot of the booth
http://www.rasoc.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=1765&stc=1&d=1159412625

And before you know it...it is all over and time to head home.
http://www.rasoc.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=1767&stc=1&d=1159412831

We had a blast meeting everyone and getting the opportunity to chat with Richard and the many attendees!

Looking forward to XIX

[bshumake]

Thanks for the pics Steve. How far was your drive that you needed to do a water change? Or were you just that crowded? I hit the bugs in Mississippi too. All my corals I got from you are looking great! Thank you so much! Now if only that daughter of yours was for sale...... :D

[Coraldynamics]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8237985#post8237985 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by bshumake
Thanks for the pics Steve. How far was your drive that you needed to do a water change? Or were you just that crowded? I hit the bugs in Mississippi too. All my corals I got from you are looking great! Thank you so much! Now if only that daughter of yours was for sale...... :D

If she was my daughter I would gladly sell her. While I am old enough to have a child her age (and do) she is not one of them.

Glad your corals are doing well after the trip. Our drive was something like 18 hours. So we stopped for the night in La along I-12...the water changes were precautionary since there was such a mix of corals in the transport containers...Acros, Leathers, LPS, other sps....etc. It also helped to ditch some of the weight associated with the extra water we were carrying.

[bshumake]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8238050#post8238050 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Coraldynamics
the water changes were precautionary since there was such a mix of corals in the transport containers...Acros, Leathers, LPS, other sps....etc. It also helped to ditch some of the weight associated with the extra water we were carrying.
Ahh. "I see," said the blind man to his deaf wife over the telephone.

[bshumake]

Sad news to report. The Ultra blue maxima I won at MACNA is dead. I have absolutely no idea what happend. Yesterday I got home from work and it was no longet pearched on its rock. So I looked and it was about 4" away in the sand on its side. I picked it up and the back (where the foot is) was open! And on the rock was what I thought were anchoring tissues. Well, it retracted when I picked it up and moved it to a frag/ quarentine tank in back. But this morning its all open and dead. Any ideas? I gave it a quick swish in coral dip when I got home. Not more that a minute at the longest. More like seconds. Think that did something to it?

[OxInYourBox]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8237985#post8237985 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by bshumake
Thanks for the pics Steve. How far was your drive that you needed to do a water change? Or were you just that crowded? I hit the bugs in Mississippi too. All my corals I got from you are looking great! Thank you so much! Now if only that daughter of yours was for sale...... :D

19 hour drive on the way back (to my apt-Steve had 30 more mins I think) and we averaged 71.2mph which wasn't bad. The drive there was awful with traffic.

Buy her? You sure about that? Being her b/f I'll see what I can do about renting but something tells me I'll have a few broken bones tonight when she sees me. :D

Glad all the corals are doing great-What all did you get?

[bshumake]

Red table, um, encrusting monti, blue tort I think, nice acan, and something else thats eluding me. I could swear I got a couple more too. My mind is going...

[DrBegalke]

Are those mounted fans or that maxi-jet mod for sale anywhere?
If so, please PM me and let me know! THANKS!