MACNA 2008.... in da books

[BigAl07]

Ok we're home..... I'll post some pics and if anyone wants to add please do... I wish I would have had my camera last night but alas I didn't...

My lovely wife hanging with me

our Hotel after a recent storm damaged many windows

can you say DREAM tank

the Georgia Aquarium
Ever wanted to PET an Anemone? Here was your chance

Got CRABS?

Whales = cute? You betcha

Reef Tank

this is a pic of their 28 gallon NANO Tang Tank (LOL)

My lovely wife

Do I look scared? (I'm NOT!!)

 

[SeahorseBT]

Awesome pics, thanks for sharing!

 

[Frankie]

Cool Allen! Did the wife approve a larger aquarium now? You two make an awesome couple buddy!

 

[mps9506]

I didn't take many photos and a lot that I took were pretty garbage looking. It was a pleasure meeting BigAl07, lstorc, Dentoid, BarbM, Amphibous, Boomer, Claude from Fauna Marine and several others. I think I just missed Framerguy...

Georgia Aquarium:

Big reef tank equipped with some type of surge system. I don't know the details on the system because I didn't get the behind the scenes tour, but it is awesome looking.

The new Manta Ray just recently added to the display exhibit with the whale sharks.

One of the whale sharks, with a school of Golden trevallys that always follow it

This kind of gives you a scale of how tall the tank is, but my camera could only catch half of the height of the tank, so just double it, then imagine that height going around a football field

Niko the Beluga whale, very fun to watch him interact with people through the acrylic and play with the bubbles he blew out his mouth

Al posted this, but it was a VERY impressive display

One of the Rhinos in there (they also had frog fish in the level below, and tangs and wrasses below that):

Ecotech showing the wavemaking function of their controller and pumps:

Tunze showed off their nano wave box but I didn't get a picture.


ORA had some beautiful tanks setup, and gave away 50 frags, 15 clams, 2 pairs of snowflakes, 2 pairs of picassos, some regular percs and some black percs, as well as the rest of the fish in their displays.

 

[BigAl07]

thanks bro!!

Well she's always been "on board" for a 300g+ tank. We're currently reviewing our house plans to accomodate it into the new house when we build it. One thing that did chance is I fell in LOVE with the 3 tier Zero Edge design that Live Aquaria displayed. I don't think I'll try that one but it's VERY possible that we may add a Zero-Edge unit somewhere in our main living space. I'm planning to do some in-depth research into them as I don't know anyone who's had one long-term to see first hand. I don't want to jump into something as a "Pioneer" or sorts. It's just amazing to have such a "Top-Down" tank for everyone to enjoy.

 

[BigAl07]

Mike you got some GREAT pics buddy! thanks for sharing

I think I spent so much time at the 3 tier display they started thinking I worked for them and I know you spent some time over there too

 

[mps9506]

BTW the Atl. Reef club put together and AWESOME event. The venue for the banquet was perfect, got to eat great food while watching whale sharks on one side and beluga whales on the other. The speakers were great, a lot of focus on conservation and moving our hobby towards more sustainability which I enjoyed.
And for UFC fans there were quite a few UFC fighters staying in the hotel as well for the fight Saturday night.

 

[Frankie]

I have been searching for a nano model to copy. I just might take up that three tier thing. It is very cool looking~
Was Zeovit there?

 

[ZAPCOnj]

Nice pics guys. wish i could have been there.

 

[mps9506]

Was Zeovit there?

Aquarium Specialties was there selling plenty of Zeo reactors and "stuff."

Claude was there from Fauna Marin, got to listen to him talk a bit about bailing.

 

[Frankie]

Scott from Aquarium Specialties is an awesome guy. Very fast service and response when I was in trouble and out of a product last week. We need to get him on board here. Wasn't he a sponsor at one time?

 

[mps9506]

Yep. Just up the road from ya also.

 

[Witfull]

next year AC babay~

partay in my back yard!!!

 

[mps9506]

next year AC babay~

partay in my back yard!!!

You best make that one

 

[jonathan10]

It was great meeting eveyone! Sorry we didn't make the banquet but the girlfriend came down with some 24hr bug that kinda squashed the idea of going!

And that three tier tank was a beauty!!

 

[BigAl07]

Hey buddy! We were wondering about yall!

Sorry she got the bug. She's not the only one either... must have been a lot of it going around. Hopefully she's all better now though!!

Hope you had a blast!! I know we did

 

[blue_eyes53813]

Great Pictures guys... Looks like you had an awesome time..

 

[jonathan10]

Yeah she is good now! But now I have brought home an ear infection...thinkin' there must have been something in the hotel room....lol!

But yeah we had a great time and really enjoyed getting to meet you guys and experience MACNA for the first time!

 

[jonathan10]

And i swear just over the weekend that my tank changed so much! I have new zoas growing all over the place and feather dusters and sponge! I'm thinking I need to go out of town more often!

 

[BigAl07]

My tanks always THRIVE when I'm out of town. I've thought about just "Telling them" I'm going out of town more often