MACNA Day 1

vetteguy53081 · Sep 9, 2022

I expected a lot more booths but there is a great selection and booths to be found with deals mainly on Frags. The environment and spirit of attendees and vendors was fantastic.

Many familiar faces were there such as:
terence of Neptune and yours truly from Neptune

Mark - Mr Saltwater

Richard Ross

Apex Newest introduction:

This will now control ALL Ai and Ecotech units (pumps, lights, ato, etc Thru your Apex

3rd generation will now have plugs for all foreign countries :

Corals:

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Blue Ring Octopus · Sep 17, 2022

Was the show big? Did they have lots of booths?

vetteguy53081 · Sep 17, 2022

Blue Spot Octopus said:
Was the show big? Did they have lots of booths?

In all honesty- perhaps the worse !! MACNA is about the largest of public industry shows and often kick off new products and have many booth, seminars and deals.
Very few Booths
Very few deals
Only 3 new Product introduced
Very little parking

very few vendors had a positive experince and ive been to frag swaps larger that this. Ive been attending shows 29 years and this has made the bottom of my list !!

Blue Ring Octopus · Sep 18, 2022

Wow that sounds horrible, they MACNA have had the worst luck ever since the Los Vegas show, they have weather events cancel the show, greatly limit the attendance and then finally COVID. I enjoyed the Vegas show, I brought a lot of money but I really did not spend very much. I rather buy equipment and see stuff that you cannot find at a store, it seems that the manufactures just don't want to do the shows anymore.

vetteguy53081 · Sep 18, 2022

Blue Spot Octopus said:
Wow that sounds horrible, they MACNA have had the worst luck ever since the Los Vegas show, they have weather events cancel the show, greatly limit the attendance and then finally COVID. I enjoyed the Vegas show, I brought a lot of money but I really did not spend very much. I rather buy equipment and see stuff that you cannot find at a store, it seems that the manufactures just don't want to do the shows anymore.

I added pics in a different thread