Last week I had the pleasure of visiting one of the world’s premier seahorse aquaculture facilities: Seahorse Savvy, on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. The visit materialized when I realized that a pilgrimage to my homeland of Long Island would take me within a few miles of the hatchery. I [...]
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 [...]
For this video, we met up with Christian and Mathias of NYOS, our friends from Germany. During the first day of MACNA, they received their FDA approval for their line of food! Which meant that we will be starting to seeing them stateside very soon. Take a first look here. We sat down with Jay of [...]
The Marine Aquarium Societies of North America (MASNA for short) has been managing the grandest stage of our industry, MACNA, as far as one can remember. They are non profit organization that tirelessly work to make our hobby a better one, and one of the many great things that they do is give [...]
In this video, we went around MACNA to give recognition to the awesome vendors who poured their heart into making this show memorable and amazing. Reefs.com and Afishionado got together for Best of Show – take a look and see who took home the awards. *Since this was such a big show, we [...]
Have you ever been to a big reefing event and notice that there is a pattern? A trend? This year at MACNA in New Orleans, I noticed a pattern. Care to guess what it is? If you guessed automated test kits, you guessed correctly. Neptune Systems Trident To start things off, early [...]
How do you improve a skimmer? Especially when it’s considered to be one of the best in the industry? Add Accessories? Make things prettier? For this video, we met up with Carlos of Coralvue to talk about their newest skimmer from Reef Octopus. They went back to the drawing board and [...]
Current USA has been teasing us for months, promising us a new bluetooth module and a new app for our smart devices. At MACNA, I got a glimpse of what’s to come, and I was pleasantly surprised to see how far and how intuitive they have gotten with this module. Gone are the old individual [...]