MASNA just announced that MACNA will be cancelled for 2020. This is their official statement: Dear MACNA 2020 Exhibitors and Guests, The safety of our marine aquarium community is paramount to the MASNA Board and the MACNA 2020 committee. As such, we cannot in good conscience ask thousands of you [...]
As of this week, MACNA 2020 is still on track to run as scheduled. We all hope that life will be back to some semblance of normal by then, and I (very tentatively) look forward to seeing everyone there. In the meantime, as we stay safe at home, we can enjoy these past MACNA presentations on [...]
I was sad to learn that we have lost one of the titans, a true pioneer and who ushered in the golden age of ichthyology, Dr. John “Jack” Randall. His accomplishments are so many but to summarize, he single handedly described close to a thousand species of reef fish and have many fish [...]
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 a [...]
Fluorescence is an amazing natural phenomenon and one of the main reasons so many of us reef aquarists got hooked into keeping reef aquariums at home. When illuminated with black light, corals transform into these otherworldly creatures, glowing in the dark in a kaleidoscope of colors. There is no [...]
Rossmont cofounder Mattia Montin and I first talked about the company’s upcoming big release, an AC powered, controllable skimmer line, a year ago. So I was pleased to visit their MACNA 2019 booth, and see the two production models with my own eyes- the smaller X250, rated for aquariums [...]
In the last edition of Fluorescence Photography: MACNA Edition, I tried to shine some light on the topic of coral fluorescence- what it is, how does it manifest itself in corals and what’s the difference between this phenomenon and other forms of naturally occurring luminescence. In this [...]
It’s sad to say goodbye to big show picture taking for the year, but I am going to look back at it as one of the best, if not the best, year for the aquarium industry. New people are increasingly interested in owning a reef tank, the knowledge base grew at a logarithmic pace, and the hobby [...]
