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We are out in Hawaii so we took a drive over to the Waikiki aquarium. Small and on the beach, maybe you spend about an hour there. However they have some of the best reef tanks I have ever seen in a pan aquarium so worth the little trip.
Unless something has changed, getting board approval for group buy has nothing to do with 501c3 regulations. That was done because back in the day, people would harass store owners and websites about giving us discounts because they were connected to NJRC. It pissed off a lot of store owners...
Our experience so far has not been great. We lost the one we got and it was in an 80g frag tank with minimal flow with 3 tank raised pink square anthias and a tank raised blotchy anthia. All the others did great, the regal not so much. They are so small, might have to give them some time...
Unfortunately this goes on at just about every frag show. Vendors who have not purchased booth passing out sticker/coupons/flyers and trying to sell stuff at the shows. It does undercut and piss off all the vendors who bought booths.
Paintman, you threw some epic ones.
Was just talking to @Mark_C about doing one down in our neighborhood this month. We will try and nail a date down soon.
NJRC used to throw a yearly frag swap going back to before MACNA so maybe 2005ish time (before my time so guesstimating) and yes we hosted MACNA Atlantic city in 2009. After that we went back to running a yearly one and we went from small ones in firehouses (like 15-20 vendors) up to bigger...
Here is a nice walkthrough to give you an idea of what it is like to attend.
https://www.saltwateraquarium.com/video/reef-a-palooza-2022/reefapalooza-ny-walkthrough/?mc_cid=3e6f2c47b6&mc_eid=c15094b74d
Oh man we were gunning for that setup too, they are so nice. Funny story, we won a jellyfish setup back at the Colorado MACNA but we really didn't have the spot for it nor the time for it so we sold it. Now we have the perfect space and time for it and don't have one. Glad to see someone in...
Got back a few hours ago and we had a great time. Got some frags from some of our favorites and a some from a few new vendors. Thank you to kschweer for the recommendation on the torch, we grabbed one from the same vendor. Always great to see some old vendors and of course some of the new...