MACNA XIX pictures!{Thread Of The Month}

[beerguy]

[fisheebill]

Great Pictures!

[melev]

Kev, I just downloaded all 800. I'll see what I can do. Keep in mind I tend to take pictures of stuff more than people, which The Lounge apparently isn't used to.

[melev]

First picture. MASNA Award 2007 goes to Randy Holmes-Farley.

[dc]

Cool! Marc I also stickied a thread in the reef forum.

[melev]

Here are more pictures, in no real particular order. Just go with the flow if you will.

Comments are mine, and Reef Central as well as the United States Reefing Community do not nor have they ever associated with me nor my thoughts no matter how humorous and usually do all they can to keep themselves without legal obligation or fudiciary responsibility. Names have not been withheld to protect the innocent; melev never remembers them when he needs to... but never forgets a face, pretty or not. End of disclaimer.

My day started much too early after being up much too late with much too much to do for much too much too long. A bit much, right? Anyways.... (btw, do you ever notice if you type one word too many times, it begins to look like it is spelt wrong? )


I start off my day with a good breakfast daily.


The night before, I ran into a shady looking guy with a cardboard box. Quickly I knew he had to be tackled, relieved of his stuff, and.. um, I better not add any more details to avoid legal action.


When asked later about the incident, he remained silent.

[melev]

This is Randy, owner of Champion Lighting


Some products, including Ken Stockman's overflow drain (white PVC thing)


Coming soon: 1.5" Sea Swirl with all black PVC connections. Kinda neat.


Deltec set up a pass-through booth, where you could enter from a couple of directions and see all their goodies. Prices vary, and often what you see is already sold prior to the show. That way the new owners can pick up their newest toy at MACNA. Doug was smiling non-stop; he loves MACNA almost as much as I do.










This is Anthony Calfo, who just celebrated the 12 month anniversary of his magazine "C - The Journal." His magazine featured several pages about the conference and carried the program schedule within. Every person that attended the show got a free copy.

To his right is the owner of Reef Exotics, who owns acropora.net where I've purchased my ReefLux bulbs.

[dc]

You mean there was actually fish stuff there?

[melev]

Reef Exotics sells this new reflector. I saw one in the Sunday raffle as well.


Here is the MACNA XX booth for 2008. If you want to go, or even think you MIGHT go, sign up immediately. Full package price is a mere $89 for a few more days. www.macnaxx.com


This is the MASNA booth. To the right is smiller, RC moderator. I don't remember the sweet woman's name to his left so feel free to fill in the blank.


Here is Geo's booth, and look at the beautiful reactors. Geo himself is seated direction beneath the ".com" of the banner.


I don't know who this tall guy is, but how could you not buy one from a salesman with that smile?


I've never heard of this site, but did wander through this area to meet some RC Lounge Lizards.


Hikari was represented.


The view from my room in the hotel wasn't bad. To the left, some beautiful green trees rose up the hill, and to the right of a tall building was a view of the nearby mall. On Thursday night we walked over there to eat dinner at Hoolihans.

[melev]

Originally posted by dc
You mean there was actually fish stuff there?

Yes, and a few people noticed. However, once it was firmly established the Debi wasn't going to arrive, this one tank was quickly drained and taken to the dumpster crusher out back.

[melev]

PFO Lighting, with Joy (formerly of Harbor Aquatics) who has now become their rep. Joy was the person to sell me my very first blue Maxima clam in 2002 at MACNA Fort Worth. Their booth compared the Solaris LED lighting to a MH bulb with two tanks using PAR meters.


Pure Reefs was selling their Cati-Ani system, as well as a few other products. They are based out of Colorado, I believe. Kip's a friend of mine, but he wasn't in these pictures. We met via RC years ago, and at MACNA Boston actually shook hands for the first time.






Reef Sanctuary, owned (at least in part) by Travis Staut of Reef-Life.com - I saw Travis later that day.


These were the 12 pictures that won Picture Of The Month on their site. The guy on the right is a swell guy with no name.


Tunze was represented by Roger of course, based in Austin. I think he blinked as he normally appears smiling and relaxed.

[melev]

Random shot of what I would call an intersection between some booths.


Salty Critters






This dendrophyllia (closed up) was $250. Two years ago, they sold for $50 a polyp.




This Maze coral was hyper-extended, with the green barely visible and the brown tissue literally moving in the flow. Very unusual and interesting.


Seachem's booth was full of goodies.




That's it for now. More later.

[dc]

You could have delivered that tank to me you know.

[kev apsley]

Marc, thanks for bringing it to life for those who could not attend!

did you see the Vortech with the controller in operation?

[lshark21]

Originally posted by kev apsley
did you see the Vortech with the controller in operation?

Yeah, they had the controllers operating. Pretty cool. One set up had them pulsing creating a wave affect. Very nice set up esp. with the battery back up they had.

[kev apsley]

Originally posted by lshark21
Yeah, they had the controllers operating. Pretty cool. One set up had them pulsing creating a wave affect. Very nice set up esp. with the battery back up they had.

Thanks

[Double-J]

Awesome pics... Anymore?

[melev]

Originally posted by kev apsley
Marc, thanks for bringing it to life for those who could not attend!

did you see the Vortech with the controller in operation?

I shot some video of it, but haven't done anything with it yet. Here's a video someone else posted that looks pretty good:

Originally posted by mrcrab
Check out the Vortech demo at MACNA:

Vortech Wireless Driver

[yrema]

sweeeet!!! 'wish i could go there at least once.

[kev apsley]

Thanks Marc!

[chirocato]

Nice job on all the pics guys. This was my first MACNA. All I can say is OMG!!!! It was a blast. Already lookin' fwd to next year!

[KEstep]

Originally posted by melev
Reef Exotics sells this new reflector. I saw one in the Sunday raffle as well.

I have one of these and they are really bright. Quiet a bit more than the older version.

[Lunchbucket]

SWEET MORE PICS!!

Lunchbucket

[Aliie]

I added a few in the Breakfast club thread of Loungers.

[IRISSERVICE]

we want more