Midwest Marine Conference 2011! This weekend!

[AJ Reef]

OK so I know this is REALLY late. But! There still is time to get in on the fun!

Midwest Marine Conference 2011
November 4 - 5, 2011
Cranbrook Institute of Science
39221 Woodward Avenue, Bloomfield Hills, MI 48303
Brought to you by the MarineLife Aquarium Society of Michigan
and the Cranbrook Institute of Science

Check out more info at masm.org

Attendees can enjoy a Friday reception and a full day of speakers, Vendors, and a massive raffle.

Full Conference Passes include all speaker sessions, Exhibit Hall, and access to the largest marine aquaria raffle in the state.

General Admission to the exhibit hall is $3 at the door from 1 pm to 5pm on Saturday.
Inland Hobby has donated one of their spectaluar ReefKeeper DFS-100 Saws to the raffle. If you are a serious coral grower one of these babies is a must have tool.


ReefBrite has donated a pair of 250 Watt Twinarc Metal Halide Bulbs for our raffle


We are pleased to announce that our 4th Speaker for MMC 2011 will be Steven Pro




Please Welcome Steven Pro, as our 4th and final speaker for MMC 2011, Steven Pro has had an aquarium for as long as he can remember, but didn't get into marines until sometime in the early 1990's. He started working full-time in the ornamental aquatics industry in the summer of 1995, primarily doing design, installations, and on-going maintenance of aquariums. He has also worked previously for Red Sea and IceCap Inc. Along the way, he was a contributor to WetWebMedia, a blogger for reefs.com and Reef2Reef.com, had over 40 articles published with more on the way, spoken at over 60 clubs and conferences, and co-hosted MACNA 19. He is currently the President of MASNA.
Live Aquaria has been provided these cool goodie bags for the first 200 people through the door at MMC 2011. The bags include some nice samples of products from various vendors and one of their new and very cool T-shirts. We'll also stuff in a few other freebies and discounts from some of our other vendors as well.

Just another perk for our attendees, Get your tickets today and make sure you get your hands on one of these goodie bags.
MMC Attendeee information

 

[AJ Reef]

Stay where the action is!! MASM as negotiated a special room rate of $79 per night for attendees of MMC 2011.


We will have a free shuttle service that will run back and forth between Cranbrook and the Hotel on Saturday. Raddison has both a Deli and and a full service restaurant on site. Shuttle service will run on an accelerated schedule during lunch to allow attendees easy access these resources.


Check in Time: 3:00pm
Check out Time: 12:00pm

Please visit Radisson Hotels - Great Hotel Deals, Rooms & Services - Radisson.com to book your room at the special MASM rate.

The Radisson will also be hosting the Friday evening reception in the Presidential suite on the second floor level. We will post updated details as they become available.


Marco Rock Has donated 80lbs of mixed Shelf and Key Largo rock for the conference...We have plans for this stuff....Stay Tuned!
Ecoxotic has donated two of their 10K White/453nm Blue Panorama LED Modules and two of their 453nm Panorama LED Modules to the Raffle. These are some nice lighting units everyone. Someone is going to walk away very happy!



From Premium Aquatics

:

Sybon Digital Submersible Thermometer / Algae Scrubber - 5 Drawing(s)





Set of 7 C-Journals





From Sea Dweller's & Friends:

Voyager 3 Pump





10 watt Lifegard Ultraviolet Sterilizer





From Hamilton Lighting:

Bali Sun Mogul E39 Pendant with LED Lights





Plus Gift Certificates from:

Cherry Corals, Fantastic Frags, & Ready Aquatics
Some of you may have heard some rumors about an Aquascaping Contest at the conference this year...Well the rumors are true!
Announcing the 2011 Midwest Marine Aquascaping Contest
Sponsored By MarcoRock and Preuss Pets

We are really excited for this new feature of the conference. Now for the rules:

•Contest is open to all Full Conference Pass holders.
•To enter the contest detach the tag on the bottom of your ticket and place it in the box in the raffle area.
•Four people will be drawn to compete in the contest, two in the morning and afternoon.
•Each contestant will be given a standard 20 gallon tank with sand in the bottom and 40 lbs of Marco rock.
•Each contestant will have 15 minutes to come up with the most interesting Aquascaping
•Pictures will be taken of each creation and voting will take place where 50% of the vote will come from our speakers and volunteers and 50% from attendees.

So what Can you win?
1st Place: 80lbs of MarcoRock, 20 gallon tank,$50 Preuss Gift Card
2nd Place: 20 gallon tank,$50 Preuss Gift Card
3rd Place: $25 Preuss Gift Card
4th Place: $25 Preuss Gift Card

We are really looking forward to seeing some interesting creations for this and watching somebody walk away with a really cool prizes!

 

[gparr]

It was an excellent event last year and I'm looking forward to attending tomorrow and Saturday. Highly recommended
Gary

 

[mikejrice]

Sounds like a great time. Hopefully this will help you fill the place up some:

Midwest Marine Conference Coming This Weekend | Marine Engineers

 

[AJ Reef]

Thanks guys! Hope to see you there Gary. There is always so much to do!

 

[AJ Reef]

From CORAL Magazine:

(5) One year subscriptions to CORAL Magazine





From A & M Aquatics:

(2) 50lb boxes of Live Rock



From Doni's Reef:

(2) $100 Gift Certificates

 

[AJ Reef]

For all of you moms and dads out there:

Kids under 16 are free, bring the family and enjoy a day at the MMC.



Midwest Marine Conference 2011

Aquatic Life , LLC has donated one each of their new expandable LED system lights







24IN LED 9.6W 10K/460 nm Expandable

24IN LED 9.6W 460 nm Expandable

36IN LED 15W 10K/460 nm Expandable

36IN LED 15W 460 nm Expandable

48IN LED 21.6W 10K/460nm Expandable

48IN LED 21.6W 460nm Expandable



That's a total of 6 of the newest LED fixtures on the market. Thanks Guys!



Check out all our raffle items at: MMC Raffle
from the folks at Brightwell Aquatics today. It contained 3 packs of 8 of their products including:



Reef Code A, Reef Code B, Replenish, Magnesion, MicroBacter7, PhytoChrom, Zooplanktos-M, Iodion

The folks at AquaFX have sent us a set of RO Prefilters.

DFWMAS, The Dallas Fort Worth Marine Aquarium Society and hosts of next year's MACNA have donated a ticket to MACNA for our raffle. If you have never attended a MACNA here is a great reason to go next year:


Our good friends at Reed Mariculture have once again come through for us in a big way. Here is what they will be bringing for the raffle.

(2) Reef Nutrition Sample Packs
includes: (1) 6oz bottle of Phyto-Feast Concentrate, Roti-Feast, Tigger- Pods, Oyster-Feast, Arcti-Pods, and Fuzzy-Phytes + 16oz of Macro-Feast



(2) TDO Hobbyist Breeder Packs
Includes: a 1 oz bag of TDO A, 3oz bags of B1, B2, C1, C2, EP1 and EP2



(2) Otohime Hobbyist Breeder Packs
Includes: a 1 oz bag of Otohime A, 3oz bags of B1, B2, C1, C2, EP1 and EP2


There are three more reasons why this is the event not to miss!


Karen Talbot of Karen Talbot Art is donating one Aquatic print to the Midwest Marine Conference 2011 raffle. The winner may elect to keep the print donated, or he or she may have his or her choice of any print in Karen's current print catalog (Karen Talbot Art - Fine Art of Fishes, Birds and Botanicals). Choices include many marine aquarium species such as the powder blue tang, mystery Wrasse, queen angelfish, latz clownfish, and many others. The print is hand-titled and signed and is matted to 11x14 (standard size) and ready to frame.

Just got the heads up from Gresh over at Reed Mariculture that they will also be donating two bottles of their brand new RGComplete to the raffle as well:



RGComplete is non-frozen Rotigrow Plus® with Ammonia control and pH buffering. All you need to feed and enrich rotifers at home.
fromthe folks at United Pet Group ( MarineLand, Perfecto, Instant Ocean ). Check this out:

1 Maxi-Jet 4500 Pump


6 Sets of pretty much the complete line of Instant Ocean food products

Include 1 each of carnivore Medallions, omnivore Diet (Marine Pellets), Herbivore Diet (Marine Pellets), Herbivore Diet (Marine Chips), Marine Grazing Block, Seaweed Grazing Block, Pacific Krill, Cyclop-Eeze, Seaweed Blend, Brine Shrimp

6 Sets of IO Additives:

Include 1 each of Sea Buffer, Marine Stabilizer, Calcium Booster

2 each of the Maxi-Jet 400, 600, 900, and 1200 pumps


3 Containers of Blac Diamond Carbon


And finally two 160 Gallon buckets of Reef Crystals