[Leishman]

I'll start of with my favorite coral of the show. This beaut was found over @ the www.uniquecorals.com booth.





Unique was where I spent the a good chunk of my $ in the 1st 10 minutes of the MASNA pre-show. I got a frag of the above Aussie SPS along with a frag of this Aussie Echinata:



The only colony I brought home was this Loripes/granulosa from a basement operation, I forget their name. Anyway I thought it was a fair buy @ $60.



Vortech Booth

[Leishman]

Live Aquaria Booth








ORA Booth (don't know why I only have one pic)



A couple of sick fungias @ www.areefcreation.com

[Leishman]

Jason Fox





www.cherrycorals.com




www.oceangalleryii.com

[Leishman]

Random Pics:









Room View:

[Leishman]

Eric ( www.Glassboxdesign.com ) with the guys from Cherry Corals.



FREE STUFF:

T-shirts



Food (and Instant Ocean's new medication)



Reading:

[Leishman]

MACNA XXI Coupons:




When I got home:





And here are 2 of the 'yet to be released' ORA corals (won by my friend in the raffle)

Soli:



And a Lime Green one that we forgot the name of!



OK I'm done.

[zoozilla]

Rik-

LOL on Chip and Doug Would've paid to see more acrobatics!

Nice pick up on the frags especially that "Strawberry Shortcake". I went around UniqueCoral's booth a few times but didn't see that piece. Must have sold the 1st day?

This was my 1st MACNA. My wife and I had a blast. Can't wait for next year's. Gonna make it a family vacation. <<== sorry for the thread jack...

[flowerseller]

I'm just glad I got to sleep on the way up and finally meet "Miss P".

[Leishman]

flowerseller, on Sep 28 2009, 10:21 AM, said:

I'm just glad I got to sleep on the way up and finally meet "Miss P".

I decided to delete the pics of "Miss P."

[Hilary]

So Chip, do you feel pretty?

Looks like it was a wonderful weekend. Glad I didn't go, though..... $$$$$$ Maybe when I get a bigger tank and win the lottery!

[scott711]

who is Ms. "P"?

[scott711]

you didn't post a lessons learned from MACNA. It must include what you didn't know about your roommates that you didn't want to know.

[scott711]

Leishman, on Sep 28 2009, 10:24 AM, said:

I decided to delete the pics of "Miss P."

That is a travesty

[Leishman]

scott711, on Sep 28 2009, 10:34 AM, said:

you didn't post a lessons learned from MACNA. It must include what you didn't know about your roommates that you didn't want to know.

Those things will be deleted by Dave L.

[Sikryd]

Great pics!

I guess you ended up with a FEW corals, huh Rik! I'm glad I was only there for the day otherwise I would have picked up more.
I would have liked to have hung out and cruised the town with you guys though, I'm sure that was a blast.

[Gatortailale]

Great pics; great time with all you up there.

Maybe I'm biased, but I know Copps rare angelfish talk would have been way better as the banquet keynote talk than the one the offered that only lasted about 20 minutes. They guy said he has made 57 tv shows for discovery channel ... Then at least show us some video and make your talk go for 50 minues or so. As it was, he showed about 5 minutes of video and then left his tale up in air to promote sale of his book so you could find out name of German sub lost off NJ coast during WWII. Odd that the banquet lated less than 1.5 hours. Everyone looked at each other at end of banquet at 8:15 in shock that it was over.

[El Camaron]

looks like it was fun, those corals look insane man.

[zoozilla]

Gatortailale, on Sep 28 2009, 11:25 AM, said:

Everyone looked at each other at end of banquet at 8:15 in shock that it was over.

+1... Ahhh, that awkward silence at the end of the banquet. Didn't seem to have a definitive ending to the night's festivities. I was like "so when's the next speaker coming out...aww man, it's over..."

[Coral Hind]

Nice pics, thanks for sharing them.

Gatortailale, on Sep 28 2009, 11:25 AM, said:

German sub lost off NJ coast during WWII.

Probably the U-869 which I saw on Discovery a few months back. It was found in 1991 and it appears to have been sunk by one of her own T-5 acoustic torpedoes that did a circular run, boomerang style.

This post has been edited by Coral Hind: 28 September 2009 - 10:56 AM

[flowerseller]

More than 2300 people have seen me in that silly crown and Dougylou Reton cart wheeling in less than 12 hrs.
I gotta get some better pics up from the show......

[OUsnakebyte]

Gatortailale, on Sep 28 2009, 04:25 PM, said:

Maybe I'm biased, but I know Copps rare angelfish talk would have been way better as the banquet keynote talk than the one the offered that only lasted about 20 minutes. They guy said he has made 57 tv shows for discovery channel ... Then at least show us some video and make your talk go for 50 minues or so. As it was, he showed about 5 minutes of video and then left his tale up in air to promote sale of his book so you could find out name of German sub lost off NJ coast during WWII. Odd that the banquet lated less than 1.5 hours. Everyone looked at each other at end of banquet at 8:15 in shock that it was over.

Was John Chatterton the keynote speaker?

[Leishman]

It was the guy that wrote "shaddow divers"

[flowerseller]

[OUsnakebyte]

Leishman, on Sep 28 2009, 11:22 PM, said:

It was the guy that wrote "shaddow divers"

Hmmm... strange choice of a keynote speaker for an aquarium conference...

But, (and I don't mean to plug the book), but Shadow Divers is completely awesome. It was recommended to me by a fellow diver, and I couldn't put it down. I don't really dive wrecks at all, but it was great. Chatterton is not the author (by Robert Kurson), but he and his friends are the ones who found and identified the U-boat, and the book is about them and the people who were part of the crew.

But again, seems a strange choice of a speaker for a conference like this.

Cheers
Mike

[Gatortailale]

The topic was great and the story was good - decent attempt to relate his diving experience to what reefers experience was well done. Just sad to me that his presentation only lasted 15-20 minutes. 600+ folks at banquet wanting to be entertained and bang, it's over.