Midwest Marine Conference 2011

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]Date:11/5/2011 8:00 AM- 5:00 PM
Location: 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

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

Full Conference Passes start at $25 and include:
All speaker sessions
Early access to Vendor/Exhibit Hall
Chance to participate in the Aquascaping Contest

General Admission to the exhibit hall is $3 at the door from 1 pm to 5pm on Saturday.


Get all the details at: http://www.midwestmarineconf.org/

 

[ColaAddict]

I wish I can make the drive there. Sounds cool though

 

[SaylorsReef]

Looks like fun Chad! You guys have put some work into this event! Wow!

 

[cmpenney]

Thanks everyone, Hopefully we'll see some folks from your area there...It's not that far of a drive and lot's of great times to be had.

 

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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!

 

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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

 

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Well the last few days have been exciting, Check out the latest raffle prizes to show up.



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

See the complete list at http://www.midwestmarineconf.org/Raffle.aspx

 

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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!

 

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Got some more raffle items in:



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



More stuff comes in every day so stay tuned!

 

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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

 

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Time for some conference updates!

We've added a few new vendors since my last update we are pleased to have Pazzaz, Wilco1rd, Reefer T's, And Midwest Saltwater to the list of vendors this year.
Check out http://mmc.masm.org/Exhibitors.aspx for the full list of vendors so far.


Reed Mariculture is the latest sponsor of the Conference. Reed is providing us with another round of goodie bags and will be bringing some raffle items as well. Thanks to Reed Mariculture for their continued support.

We have developed a smartphone web app that will hopefully make keeping track of what is going on and when a little easier. You can view the webapp by going to http://mmc.masm.org/mobile don't worry if you don't remember the address because we will have QRCodes at the event that will take you right to the site.

This year we are making some changes to the way we do our raffle that we hope will make it run more quickly and efficiently. For starters we are switching to a chinese style raffle ticket

These style tickets means there are a lot less numbers to keep track of as each sheet contains 25 tickets all with the same number. So instead of keeping track of 100 different numbers during the drawing you only have to watch out for 4.. Way easier!

Also rather than trying to shout out numbers to the crowd we will run a scrolling list of raffle items and the ticket numbers as they are drawn on the overhead scree in the exhibit hall. This same list can be viewed from the mobile site I mentioned above. When you see your number come up just take you ticket to the raffle area and pick up your prize.. This should make the raffle run much smoother as ticket numbers will be easier to locate and you don't have to worry about not hearing your number get called.

 

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Got a nice delivery 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

 

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Don't forget to print off your ticket if you haven't already. You'll need the stub at the bottom to enter into the Aquascaping contest. You can print your tickets by going to: http://www.midwestmarineconf.org/Orders.aspx

 

[bennyblanco]

Darn! I'm in Brighton,MI this weekend and again for thanksgiving weekend. Looks like a great event. I wish I was here next weekend instead!

 

[salt0727]

The conference looks amazing. If it only wasn't 5 hours away!

 

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We have had people drive farther!

Check out our latest raffle prize to arrive: The folks at AquaFX have sent us a set of RO Prefilters:

 

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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:

 

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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!

 

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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 (www.KarenTalbotArtOnline.com). 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.

 

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I came home today to find a very special pile of boxes on my porch 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

The Raffle just keeps getting better folks!