Each year, I look forward to visiting the vendors booths to see what new products are available, and discuss some of the older ones. Here are some of the booths I saw.

The vendors area was very spacious, and was filled with many booths. Everywhere you looked, there was something to see.

These images may imply a lack of attendance, but if I took pictures with a ton of people in the way, what would you see? Many vendors would actually step out of their booths when I raised my camera, but I encouraged them to stand proudly with their products.

Two Little Fishies carried most of Julian Sprung's products. The new Phosban Reactor was on display. I love it so much more than the original one, because of the easy screw on lid and angled connectors.

This girl is grinning because she tried to dodge the camera and hide behind that lighting fixture.

Russel listened to an attendee. These are the guys that make Chemi-Clean, which kills of Cyano bacteria.

Champion Lightings booth was pretty big, with several racks of books to the right. They also had eductors, and acrylic wrenches for tightening bulkheads, among other things. You can see their sweet lighting fixtures on the left side, behind those plastic jars filled with flowing water.

Bermuda was present, and didn't let us down again. Justin built this beautiful acrylic tank, and even his light fixture and reflector housing were all acrylic. The corals and clams were flown in from Los Angeles.

Here is Bermuda's new injection HOB skimmer. It is still a work in progress, but I'm looking forward to trying it out. It ran silently.

One more shot of the acrylic light fixture. Note the large cooling fan.

Here are a few images of me, thanks to David Washington. He provided some of his images for this page. I'm wearing the gray t-shirt and glasses.

Pacific East Aquacultured corals, as sold by Dr Mac, are always a treat. This booth stayed busy from morning until evening. Almost all of his corals were grown in a greenhouse over the past 12 months, and the colors were amazing. Baby blue acropora stood out, hot pink birdsnest screamed for attention... you get the idea.

Reed Mariculture was there with their live foods. Seeing the large reddish copepods in the sample jars, they were huge - for a copepod, that is. These were larger than a flea, but smaller than a tick. Also available from this company are a variety of live algaes, as well as live phytoplankton (Phyto Feast).

Cyclop-Eeze was on display. I've been using their product for about two years, and never knew what exactly was in the product. I figured their labs cooked up some amazing protein rich, heavily-laden HUFA food, but it turns out they are copepods from the arctic region! That device pointed out above allowed visitors to see the food as if they were using a microscope.

See all the copepods?

I was so impressed!! No wonder fish love them so.

Here is a huge tank built by Deltec. All made of starfire glass (17mm, I think); it was gorgeous. Everyone just stared at it. The paint job of the stand was done by Porshe, the car company. (If I have any of this wrong, someone email me and I'll correct the page.) I don't know the gallons it holds, nor the specific lighting. Frankly, if I see the word Deltec, I know it is out of my price range, and keep walking.

Beneath the tank, you can see all of the Deltec equipment it was going to use. One large device was a chilller, but all the typical reactors and skimmer were included. The owner of this lovely tank paid a small fortune, and had matching painted doors sent to replace the glass ones you see above. This will end up being displayed at AtlantisAquarium, a LFS in (fill in the blank).

T-5 bulbs and fittings were displayed at the edge of the tank. I'm surprised I don't have any other pictures of all the displayed Deltec stuff, but then again, I couldn't afford it. ;) However, here are some of David's pictures.

Hanna was on hand with many new devices, including some multi-use hand-held devices. One checked pH, temperature, and ORP in one. Another larger device used the temperature probe as a grounding probe as well. Also explained was the spectrometer they offer, where it will give you digital results for just about any test you want to perform.

Hikari was on hand. I use Hikari mysis to feed Casper, my seahorse.

Hydor was displayed, with some of their either popular or new devices. Last year, the vendor would hit their 'unbreakable' heater on the table in their booth, which was annoying but made people curious enough to see what the noise was for. This year, that wasn't the case. They had a small tank set up with their rotating output device. I did ask how many GPH can flow through it safely, but forgot the answer.

This is a nice heater controller. They retail about $80. For us Americans, it displays in Fahrenheit. The controller can handle up to 500w worth of heater(s), and protect your tank from being overheated.

The probe goes in the tank, the controller is plugged into the wall, and the heater is plugged into the female receptacle. After the temperature setting has been dialed in, you should be able to feel safe that your tank is safe from a heater sticking on.

This underwater LED fixture also creates bubbles. I imagine it would be used in freshwater tanks, and it does come in red and green too. They are working on some underwater fixtures that do not generate bubbles for those of us that prefer zero microbubbles.

You can see the rotator at the top of the tank on a small powerhead.

This tank was setup in front of the IceCap booth. It was full of lovely coral frags.

The reason it is hard to see the colors is because there were THREE IceCap light fixtures pounding down on the water over this little tank. The cool 150w MH spotlight really did out-perform the two bracketing fixtures being showcased.

Kent Marine had a nice section. I think it was larger and I didn't photograph all of their booth.

These corals were in the tank hooked up to ZEOvite media. The booth was marked with other vendor names, as you'll note below.

This is the tank display for ORA corals and tank raised fish. Here is a 3 meg video!

Won Brothers sells inexpensive pumps and other equipment.

MarineDepot.com was on hand.

This tank was one of the raffle prizes, donated by Marineland. Note the stand is wavy, and the doors followed that same contour.

This unhappy guy was ready for me to move on after I grilled him about his reef-safe medications. He was nice and tried to answer my questions, but I really didn't hear what I was looking for. One thing I did learn was that if you decide to taste some of their product (to guess what is in it) drink plenty of water afterwards.

Water in a box. Nutri-Seawater was the saltwater MACNA used to fill up the tanks full of livestock. Dr Mac's lovely corals were very happy in this water, as were ORA frags and fish, Fishhead's SPS and clams, etc. Each box holds 4.6g of water, and is supposed to be 1.027 sg out of the box. I have to give them credit:  the fact is that all the livestock did extremely well in all of those tanks, with full polyp extension. The water was also used for the frag workshop corals that were bagged up, and for the live raffle prizes going home.

A concern of mine is what happens to all these boxes and jugs after they've been used. That is quite a load to take to our landfills. If I had to fill up my reef for the first time, it would require 60 boxes, and that means 60 boxes & jugs for the trash.

Premium Aquatics was on hand, and I bought my Sequence Dart from them. They had a MACNA-special price list to go off of.

Wanna know who owns Reef Central? That would be JohnL above. I wonder why all the moderators left him alone in there? LOL

Reefdosingpumps.com comes to every MACNA, and year after year I see his periostaltic pumps on display. Notice the small jar on the table just next to the gentleman above. The dosing pump pushes water up that black wand, and it drips down from 6' above into that bowl. If you lean forward at the wrong time, you might get dripped upon.

This was a raffle prize from Oceanic, I believe. It is a 360 degree tank. I didn't look at it closely, so it might only be 180 degrees perhaps. Someone let me know.

ROWAphos was on hand to talk about their products.

That brilliant light coming from the right was really that bright. If you looked at the bulbs for a few seconds, you saw spots for a few minutes. At the end of the conference, they gave away a ton of stuff to the crowd. They have their own namebrand lightbulbs now.

Seachem had a huge booth, with salt bag samples, test kits and other products to display. I heard one LFS bought a ton of that stuff for his store, and carted it out on flatbeds.

Sunlight Supply had some lights on display. The Reef Optic III reflector is huge, and is hanging above on the right.

Another vendor for lights.

This is a T-5 fixture from the above vendor.