Midwest Marine Conference 2010

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Randy from Reef Nutrition has kindly donated these cool goodie bags:

We will stuff these with all sorts of cool stuff including the May issue of Aquarium Fish International, Issue 1 of Fish E News, samples from Hikari and Tetra, and some special offers, literature, and information from our vendors as well as a conference program.

And every Conference attendee will get one!

 

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Inland aquatics

Just donated a $50 Gift Certificate to the Raffle. Thanks to Inland Aquatics for this wonderful donation.

 

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We'd like to thank the fine folks at AquaticLife LLC/ for their donation of a 36" T5HO Fixture with digital timer.

Very Nice, Thanks guys.

 

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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!

 

[mjoener]

any idea on the timeframes for the speakers?
looking at the slots on the schedule give the impression they will be talking for a minimal time or quite an extended amount of time, lol

 

[cmpenney]

Please join me in welcoming ACAN Lighting, Inc.

As our latest Conference Vendor.

 

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any idea on the timeframes for the speakers?
looking at the slots on the schedule give the impression they will be talking for a minimal time or quite an extended amount of time, lol

The way the schedule looks can be a little misleading because it is not linear. Basically each speaker will talk for an hour or so including a Q&A session afterward. Then you'll have some time to get up and walk around, stretch your legs, etc.

 

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

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

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

 

[mjoener]

The way the schedule looks can be a little misleading because it is not linear. Basically each speaker will talk for an hour or so including a Q&A session afterward. Then you'll have some time to get up and walk around, stretch your legs, etc.

Thank you! :spin3:

 

[xxoutlawtorn]

Is the website down? I tried getting on to midwestmarineconf.org and haven't been able to.

 

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It was for a short time but it's back up now.

http://www.midwestmarineconf.org/

 

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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.

 

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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

 

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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.

 

[Wolverine]

[*]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?

I had every intention of going this year, especially since Cranbrook is a lot more convenient for me than Weber's. Unfortunately, it conflicted with a non-reef-related conference I was teaching in.
If you can avoid overlapping with my other duties, that will help for next year.

 

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We can try but no promises

We try to set a date as early as possible to help people plan but you never know what will come up.