Whether they are meant to showcase the latest equipment, present various aquascaping materials, display wholesalers’ aquatic animals, or exist simply for the joy of hobbyists attending MACNA, fish tanks built and arranged specifically for the show are one of its...
A year ago, at the MACNA show in Las Vegas, I was approached by two nice gentlemen from an unknown to me then company, Poseidon Flow Technologies. They showed me their latest and, at that time I assumed, only product, a salinity/specific gravity pen meant for the...
The proven and repeatedly copied concept of a cone-shaped protein skimmer is rarely challenged these days. Although I’ve seen some interesting design choices that skimmer manufacturers managed to incorporate into their products, the general idea behind that type of...
Do you own a monster aquarium you could snorkel in to clean the front panel? Great, then I have a new piece of equipment from MRC America you may want to check out. The new HydroTek pump line, presented at MACNA 2019 show in Orlando, currently two models strong, is...
I’ve been waiting for some major Ecotech news for quite some time now and we finally got something. The company was indeed working hard on a brand new piece of equipment and we got a sneak-peak of a pre-production model at MACNA. Versa is its name and it is a highly...
I promised you I will make part II of the fluorescence photography sessions from 2019 Reefapalooza New York and despite the fact it took me some time to format them into the blog post, I managed to gather a good size gallery to share with you. With MACNA vibes setting...
MACNA is here and since my mind will be occupied with the show’s coverage for the next couple of weeks, I felt obligated to close the Reefapalooza chapter with the last of the coral episodes, so here it is: Corals, part III Featured in this part: Gingerbread Tropical...
Photographing corals never gets old. And every time I look down at a vendor’s shallow Frag Tank of Greatness and point my camera’s lens on yet another amazing coral, I ask myself “How?” How is this bottomless pool of colorful morphs of different coral species...
So much to cover, so little time. I would have to write well into the late fall to cover everything I witnessed at the Reefapalooza 2019 NY show, so, or the sake of brevity, I was forced to skip some and feature the ones I personally liked the most... REEFS.COM BOOTH...
How do you draw a large crowd at Reefapalooza when you are a Spirulina farmer? By having live Mysis shrimp at your booth, naturally. AGCore Technologies is a company based in Cranston, Rhode Island that specialized in growing Spirulina, the protein-rich superfood both...