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 [...]
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 [...]
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? Because these young minds give [...]
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. YouTube No [...]
I have a custom made glass sump sitting inside my aquarium stand that supplies a 100g reef tank above. It’s a standard sump- it holds water, has some generic looking baffles and in it, I can fit a decent size skimmer, some standard equipment, and dual 7” filter socks hanging on a third [...]
Here it is, part III of Reef Candies: MACNA Edition- more beautiful aquariums and more mindblowing coral frags to make you drool. As I write this, knowing that we’re getting to the end of MACNA coverage, I’m already feeling nostalgic for the show, its unique atmosphere, and the people [...]