Did you know that MASNA (parent organization of MACNA) gives yearly scholarship awards to the brightest and most creative young minds in our marine industry? I covered this last year and was so impressed that I decided to do more this year. Why is this so important?...
For this video, we present to you the best tanks of MACNA 2018. By now, it's no secret that Neptune Systems took the crown home for this category. Let's see who else had some good display tanks to wow us! Check it out. https://youtu.be/oytg6xW_gZo
Those of you that know me personally, know that I am extremely passionate about our hobby and industry. Like many of you, I will never forget the first time I saw the saltwater section in my LFS when I was in college in Gainesville, Florida. Vivid colors, movement,...
Paul Poeschl of Apex Aquarium Consulting is someone that I respect greatly. It's very time consuming and energy draining trying to argue your way through the ignorance and sheer amount of misinformation online, but he's one of the good ones constantly fighting that...
During this MACNA, I had the privilege to speak to Tullio Dellaquila of Reef Brite. Tullio has been a national speaker for various shows like MACNA, as well as many other events, and it's very easy to see why. As a pioneer in the aquarium light world, he is...
For those of you that didn't know, this year's MASNA's Aquarist of the year award went to Jamie Craggs of Horniman Museum, England. It's very well deserved, and the reason that he got the award captivates me. I have been following Jamie for few years now and he was...
The first video of MACNA 2018 is here. To start the series off, we interviewed none other than the Godfather of Corals, Charlie Veron. Charlie, a champion of and a strong advocate for our oceans' well being, was present at MACNA and I had the opportunity to sit down...
Here is the official press release from Kessil:
The Kessil A360X is an upgraded, redesigned successor of the popular A360WE LED aquarium
light, not only improving the solid design of the original, but also adding more groundbreaking
features to make it the best LED light in the market for reef and planted aquariums.
For this episode, we had a very special guest come over to Afishionado land. Copegod, Chad Clayton of Reef Nutrition came by to talk tanks, fish, copepod and everything else. I used this opportunity to sit down and talk about Chad and his work at Reef Nutrition. This...
Walt Smith of Walt Smith International in Fiji has long been an advocate of mariculture and sustainability in our hobby. He’s the founder of ADE, Aquaculture Development for the Environment, a nonprofit organization registered in the US and Fiji that enables coral reef conservation and restoration projects within Fiji and around the world.…