12th Annual Midwest Marine Conference

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MASM would like to thank Sea Dweller's of Angola for their donation of an Oceanic 29 gallon Biocube for our raffle.



This will make a nice addition to someone's livingroom!

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Captive Reefs has donated a pair of T-Shirts to the conference raffle. Looks like some people will be walking around the conference in style...


Thanks guys!

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Please join me in welcoming ACAN Lighting, Inc.


As our latest Conference Vendor.

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So check this out. Acan Lighting has just donated this sweet LED light setups for our raffle:

It's their 18" A101 Model LED lighting system.




I might be throwing in some raffle tickets for this one myself!

[CarmieJo]

Wow, that is a nice light! It would be great over my nano!

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Reef Geek has donated one of their LET Lighting 48" 2x54W Miro-4 T5 High-Output Retrofit Kit w/ Bulbs. If your tank is in need of a lighting boost this is the item for you:


T5 high-output fluorescent retrofit kit complete with LET Lighting Miro-4 individual parabolic reflectors for each bulb made from 96% German reflective aluminum, electronic ballast with color-coded wire bundle with quick disconnect, power-cord, moisture proof end-caps, standoffs and 2 bulbs.

[CarmieJo]

Is anyone else from TR going to be there? Lets get together and have dinner or something!

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I've been trying to get Rob to come to one for years. I don't think he likes me

[CarmieJo]

Well if he is keeping track of this thread he will have to show up for the raffle! You guys have done a great job soliciting the donations!

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We are just lucky to work with some very generous people out there in the hobby.

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This year our vendors have really gone all out. We’ve got several that are giving away samples and freebies especially on Saturday. Others will also have special pricing and discounts available all weekend.

Aquarium Fish International:
Free copies of their May Issue + a special subscription offer

Rods Food:
Free sample packs of several varieties of their food and their cool new koozies

Hikari:
Free samples of several of their pelleted foods

Piscine Energetics:
Free 8oz Packs of PE Mysids first come first serve

Sera Marin:
Free bottles of Granules pellet food

Captive Reefs:
Giving away T shirts, Plus gift certificates to Pet Connection, Amazon Stingrays, Reef Solutions and Fish Doctors

Eco Reef Technologies:
Free Eco rock samples

Moby Dick’s:
Free T-shirts from Tetra

Free Copies of Fish E News Vol 1 & 2

Lucid Props: Specials
$10 spearmint pipe organ, favias, safecrackers, pokerstar montis, mangrove trees
$20 ORA red planet, Oregon tort, superman montis
$40 3" Deresa clams
$150-200 Tuamotu Maxima Clams

The Blue Glow: Specials on Acrylic Frag Racks

[V]

I've been trying to get Rob to come to one for years. I don't think he likes me

well that might have something to do with you sticking your tounge in his ear at the christmas party a few years ago.... all coming back to you now. ? lol
I didn't mind seeing that, it was quite funny seeing the reaction, but i was alittle pissed that your Punky Brewster T-shirt was better than my Mork & Mindy one

[CarmieJo]

OK V, I feel bad about the Punky Brewster t-shirt. Soooo, I'm going to get one of the t-shirts and send it to you! What size?

[V]

lol, my friend
large please.

[CarmieJo]

You got it! PM me your address.

[V]

havn't you heard the saying, dont count your chickens till they hatch. You havn't got it yet kiddo!

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Reed Mariculture Has donated a 1 Pound of 90% GSL Artemia


And 1 Liter of RotiGrow Plus


to the Raffle.

Thanks to the guys at Reed Mariculture and Reef Nutrition for this excellent donation.

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Reef Nutrition has donated a 4) 6oz Sampler packs of some of their hot products for the raffle


Each sampler pack includes one each of the following:
6oz Arcti-Pods
6oz Roti-Feast
6oz Oyster-Feast
6oz Phyt-Feast
16oz Marco-Feast
6oz Fuzzy Phytes
6oz Tigger-Pods

Thanks to the guys at Reed Mariculture and Reef Nutrition for another generous donation.

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Well another MMC has come and gone. Our attendance was up 29% over last year and while we had a few hiccups, over all our first 2 Day event went very well. We had an amazing line up of speakers and some absolutely top notch vendors this year!

MASM would like to thank the Cranbrook Institute of Science for hosting the event for us. Reed Mariculture/Reef Nutrition for Sponsoring the Conference, Reef Hobbyist Magazine for our Media Sponsorship, and Preuss Pets for sponsoring the beverages. These companies really pulled out all the stops to help us pull this event off.

We’d also like to thank all of our vendors:

Reef Nutrition
Reef Hobbyist Magazine
Preuss Pets
Acan Lighting
Amazon Stingrays
Aquatic Eco-systems, Inc.
AquaticLife, LLC.
Boston Aqua Farms
Captive Reefs.com
Cherry Corals
Dirk’s
Eco Reef Technologies
House of Corals
Inland Saws
Instant Ocean
Kee’s Aquarium & Pets
Lucid Propagations
Marineland
Midwest Saltwater
Moby Dick Pet Store
Paradise Corals
Paul’s Corals
Reef Brite
Reef Peddler
Reef Stewardship Foundation
Rod’s Food
Seachem
The Blue Glow
YZReef.net

We saw some really sweet booths and very professional setups this year! MASM truly appreciates your support.

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In order to improve next year's MMC, we would really would like to get some feedback from both attendees and people that did not attend.

1. If you decided not to attend this year, why? Was it the time of year, weather, speakers? What can we do to get you to attend next year?
2. If you did attend, What did you like about the conference this year? What were your thoughts on the presentation of the hall?
3. For people with passes to be there on Saturday & Sunday, what can we do to keep you at the venue longer each day?
4. For people with full conference passes, what affected your decision to attend or not attend a specific speaker this year?
5. What influenced your decision to buy or not buy items at the conference?

Please feel free to send your responses to: sales@masm.org, Thank you for your input.

[V]

ok, so i think its time to answer at least ONE of your questions....

If you decided not to attend this year, why?

I was definitely on my way, turned left instead of right & just kinda got alittle hooked up with something..lol



Im glad it went well. Good to see you bud, dont let it be so long between drinks next time ok!

[CarmieJo]

V, I have your t-shirt, now I'm waiting for your address.

[V]

sh^t, i totally forgot about that.....that lovely gesture of kindness to your dear ol chap in Oz.

#1 stalkers lane, dupont circle, DC......oh, wrong address ok so i have know idea where that is, but it sounded like a place in the memory banks.

I'll PM it to you ok. Thanks kiddo

[CarmieJo]

LOL! Tomorrow's a holiday so I'll ship it out on Tues.

[V]

its got to fly 50 billion miles south for the winter, so when i see the ducks, i'll head to the post office on my kangaroo & collect it.