Applications are now being accepted for the 2018-2019 MASNA Student Scholarships. This year there are two scholarships available; one $4,000 scholarship for a college undergraduate student (incoming and current undergraduate students) and one $4,000 scholarship for a college graduate student [...]
We were awarded the exclusive right to film this year’s Neptune Systems’ presentation at MACNA 2017. We decided to divide the video up into three parts for those people that missed this year’s presentation. The first part features Richard Ross. He is the MASNA Aquarist of the [...]
The time has come to recap what was arguably the most important aquarium industry trade show of 2017. What a great event it was! We are certainly experiencing a rising trend, where every new MACNA show is better and grander than the previous. It may well be for the fact that the hobby [...]
To anyone still unaware of Pax Bellum’s ARID reactor, it’s essentially a product that made Cheatomorpha macro algae cool again. Before ARID, cheato had the status of a secondary method of controlling nutrients in a reef tank and a good choice for in-sump refugiums, providing cover and [...]
It looks like Reef Octopus is venturing into yet another branch of the aquarium industry with their latest product, which doesn’t even have an official name yet, other than “Wave Pump” stamped on the back of its dry side magnetic mount’s cover. After the introduction of a line of DC [...]
A number of new products from Maxspect were introduced at the MACNA show in New Orleans this year, and to talk about them, I stole a minute of Howards Roy’s, the company’s Sales and Marketing Director’s, time for a little chat. Spoiler alert, we talked about the new Recurve light, [...]
I must admit, Easy Reefs was a surprising (in a good way) discovery at MACNA 2017. The company somehow slipped my attention prior to the show, and I’m glad I lurked at their booth for a good long while, educating myself about this unique manufacturer from Europe… Easy Reefs [...]
Rossmont, as you may know, is the company behind the revolutionary, controllable, AC powered wave pump called Mover. At the MACNA 2017 show in New Orleans, the Mover was joined with its return pump counterpart, the Riser. The two products, Riser and Mower, are completed by Rossmont’s [...]