MASNA intends to award two leaders a highly sought after award for those contributing to the marine aquarium industry for their impact on the sustainability of the hobby at its annual conference in Orlando in August. Those considered for this award must first be nominated for consideration by [...]
To further our goals, MASNA offers the MASNA Student Scholarship program to help stimulate and promote the pursuit of marine science, in particular for topics that are current and relevant to the marine aquarium hobby. This year there are two scholarships available; one $4,000 scholarship for [...]
During this year’s MACNA, Kessil finally released the highly anticipated successor to their wildly popular 360 series. I met up with my friend David Lowry of Kessil to learn everything about this amazing new light from Kessil. Enjoy! MACNA 2018 – Introducing Kessil X. [...]
I love creative young people (yes, I am pretty old). I love how they come up with fresh and innovative ideas and how they incorporate with things that are both practical and bleeding new in technology. For this video, we are moving to our final MASNA Scholarship award winner, Gabbie [...]
Relive #MACNA2018 MACNA 2018 attendees enjoyed over 30 hours of educational presentations from industry leaders and professionals throughout our three days in Las Vegas. Thanks to BulkReefSupply.com, we are able to provide the archived recordings of these presentations for everyone to [...]
We often read about certain rare fish that are found in the deep depths of the ocean, and we can’t help but marvel at the beauty of the fish, the mysteries of the ocean, and how little we know about what goes on down there. A famous example of this occured just last year when President Obama [...]
For this video, we are moving from tanks to the winner of the MASNA 2018 Graduate Student Scholarship, Michael Connelly. Michael is pursuing his PhD in Marine Biology and Ecology at the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science at the University of Miami. Michael, an avid hobbyist turned [...]
“Can I legally bring corals with me on a plane?” is one of the most frequent question asked by hobbyists who are planning to transport live corals across the United States. As it turns out, I found an answer to that question when I visited the Building an Obsession (BaO) booth at MACNA [...]