Richard L Posted August 30, 2014 Share Posted August 30, 2014 I'm sitting in my room after spending most of the day on my feet. Resting up for the booze party, I mean "reception" in an hour. Cool things from today: 1. Eye candy. OMG there is so much cool, weird, jacked up coral to look at! Much more than last year. This year the thing is Jawbreaker mushrooms which are multicolored with orange and reds. Try $800 to $1000 per polyp and the few that I've come across are all sold. Multi-colored pectinas and chalices are also hot. Acans and zoos, gorgeous as they may be, are plentiful and not selling. One vendor explained to me that the first day everyone is buying up the unique and hard to get stuff, ignoring the staples of the hobby. 2. Stuff I bought that my wife can never know about. Feast your eyes: Multicolored Yuma - Aznnutty Saltwater Unnamed Chalice - Reef Koi Multicolored Pectina - Unique Corals Montipora and two different zoas - World Wide Corals 3. Rising Tide Conservation: Nonprofit out of Florida who's mission is to figure out how to economically breed marine fish in captivity. For example, they are really focused right now on figuring out how to breed hippo tangs before the new Disney Dory movie brings a tidal wave of demand in 2016. We may want to make this one of our sponsored charities. 4. Julian Sprung: Julian had a kind of doom and gloom message last year about the likely hood that the Fish and Wildlife Dept will be shutting down all or most of the coral and marine fish trade in the near future. I got a chance to talk a while with him today and he said that his lecture tomorrow will be a continuing update so I'll be sure to pass his message along. 5. Neptune Systems: Neptune announced a new line of dosing pumps and powerheads for those of you that haven't given them enough of your money. As usual they're cool and overloaded with tons of unnecessary but got-to-have it features. More tomorrow... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SAM Posted August 30, 2014 Share Posted August 30, 2014 Awesome Richard. Always wanna go to MACNA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jellyfish Posted August 30, 2014 Share Posted August 30, 2014 WOW and WOW !! Thanks so much for giving us a peak at what's going on there. Keep is updated on all the cool stuff you see! ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+KimP Posted August 30, 2014 Share Posted August 30, 2014 Thanks for the fun and interesting update. And those corals you got are amazing!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jolt Posted August 30, 2014 Share Posted August 30, 2014 Those are some awesome pieces! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluemoon Posted August 30, 2014 Share Posted August 30, 2014 ahh Richard! I've never been more content and jealous at the same time. Thanks for the update, what's the vibe like this year, mellowed out at all? [emoji38] ...ill never tell about the Yuma..as long as it has a chance of splitting eventually....oh uh. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robb in Austin Posted August 30, 2014 Share Posted August 30, 2014 Great update! I'm curious about your, er, uhmmmm, ahhhh, 'acquisitions'; those pics are obviously under heavy blue spectrum lighting. Or at least via your phone which skews heavily towards blue. Are those colors representative of full spectrum lighting that most of us run? In other words; do they really look that insane IRL? Also; did you see Mark? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard L Posted August 30, 2014 Author Share Posted August 30, 2014 Yeah, iPhone pics make everything look different. I'd just say all the pieces look amazing in person. I bumped into Mark a couple of times but he was always filming segments for his show. He usually does that the first day and then he's free the rest if the show. Hope to catch up with him tomorrow at the banquet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard L Posted August 30, 2014 Author Share Posted August 30, 2014 I'm going to also post this on the current thread about Cornbred corals: This MACNA I've been paying particular attention to the colors that the high end chalices, blastos, scans, and scollys exhibit. Especially since this is where the best examples of Jason Fox, Tyree, Cornbred should be found under ideal lighting (to show off a the colors). I have to admit that I'm seeing examples that look pretty close to the highly saturated corals listed for sale by Cornbred. Of course all the vendors are bombarding everything with 1.2 gigawatts of UV and actinic light but hey, I might start leaving my whites off and blocking out my windows with newspaper if I can look at those colors. But then again it might just be an illusion from all the second hand pot smoke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Woods Posted September 1, 2014 Share Posted September 1, 2014 Any more updates Richard? Any cool new BTAs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joel Tamez Posted September 11, 2014 Share Posted September 11, 2014 Such beauty. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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