MACNA 2016 will take place in San Diego California, hosted by the San Diego Marine Aquarium Foundation (SDMAF). This will be the 28th annual Marine Aquarium Conference of North America and it’s been a very long time since MACNA was held on the West Coast, 18 years to be exact.
On a side note, the 1st MACNA conference I attended was way back in 1995 when The Reef Aquarium, Volume One was still very new and the “Godfather of Reefing”, Julian Sprung was signing books like a rock star. Fragging corals was so new back then that very few hobbyists even understood how easy it was to do or that it was even possible. We’ve all come a long way since the Jaubert Method.
Listed below are the dates and locations of the previous MACNA conferences:
| I | Marine Aquarium Society of Toronto | April 22-23, 1989 |
| II | Cleveland Saltwater Enthusiasts Association | April 21-22, 1990 |
| III | Windows to the Sea Marine Aquarium Society (New Jersey) | April 20-21, 1991 |
| IV | Florida Marine Aquarium Society | September 20-21, 1992 |
| V | Marine Aquarium Society of Toronto | September 12-13, 1993 |
| VI | Cleveland Saltwater Enthusiasts Association | October 14-16, 1994 |
| VII | Louisville Marine Aquarium Society | September 14-16, 1995 |
| VIII | Kansas City Metro Aquatics Council | October 11-13, 1996 |
| IX | Chicago Marine Aquarium Society | September 12-14, 1997 |
| X | Marine Aquarium Society of Los Angeles | September 25-27, 1998 |
| XI | Louisville Marine Aquarium Society | September 10-12, 1999 |
| XII | Florida Marine Aquarium Society (Fort Lauderdale) | September 29 – October 1, 2000 |
| XIII | Chesapeake Marine Aquarium Society (Baltimore) | August 17-19, 2001 |
| XIV | Dallas-Fort Worth Marine Aquarium Society | September 27-29, 2002 |
| XV | Louisville Marine Aquarium Society | September 5-7, 2003 |
| XVI | Boston Reefers Society | October 14-16, 2004 |
| XVII | Washington D.C. Area Marine Aquarium Society | September 16-18, 2005 |
| XVIII | Marine Aquarium and Reef Society of Houston | September 22-24, 2006 |
| XIX | Pittsburgh Marine Aquarium Society | September 14-16, 2007 |
| XX | Atlanta Reef Club | September 5-7, 2008 |
| XXI | New Jersey Reefers Club (Atlantic City) | September 25-27, 2009 |
| XXII | Orlando Reef Caretakers Association | September 3-5, 2010 |
| XXIII | Greater Iowa Reef Society (Des Moines) | September 9-11, 2011 |
| XXIV | Dallas Ft Worth Aquarium Society | September 28-30, 2012 |
| XXV | Florida Marine Aquarium Society (Hollywood) | August 30 – September 1, 2013 |
| XXVI | Colorado Organization for Reef and Aquatic Life (Denver) | August 29-31, 2014 |
| XXVII | Washington D.C. Area Marine Aquarist Society | September 4-6, 2015 |
From MASNA
San Diego, CA – August 25, 2015 – The San Diego Marine Aquarium Foundation (SDMAF) is excited and proud to announce that MACNA 2016 will be held in San Diego, California September 9th-11th, 2016.
MACNA is proudly sponsored by: Triton GmbH, Instant Ocean, CoralVue, Neptune Systems, Two Little Fishies, Reef Nutrition, Rod’s Food, JBJ, eShopps, and San Francisco Bay Brand.
MACNA is widely considered to be the top conference and trade show in the marine aquarium industry. MACNA attracts attendees from all over the world that come to see the industry’s newest product offerings from the top manufacturers in the industry and interact with some of the brightest minds in the marine aquarium hobby.
MACNA is currently in its 27th year and 2016 will mark its first return to southern California since 1998. For more information about MACNA 2016, please visit www.macnaconference.org/2016.
SDMAF is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit educational organization dedicated to supporting the local aquarium hobby through educational outreach, fostering new hobbyists, and furthering the advancement of captive bred marine ornamentals.
MACNA is a registered trademark of the Marine Aquarium Societies of North America (MASNA). For more details about MASNA and its member clubs, please visit www.masna.org
Contact:
Jeff Saurwein – MACNA Co-Chair jeff.saurwein@sdmas.com
Dave Morris – MACNA Co-Chair dave.morris@sdmas.com
PO Box 600104
San Diego, CA 92160
