Owner of Melev’s Reef, Marc Levenson is an educator for all things saltwater. Articles, blogs, youtube videos, and social media posts, he offers up helpful aquarium information. He’s been a hobbyist since 1997, is the current president of DFWMAS, and is the Executive Editor of CORAL Magazine. He has a 400g reef that is over 10 years old.
Brett Raymer is a Executive producer, Entrepreneur and Reality TV star who came to prominence in 2011 as the star of Animal Planet’s hit TV show, Tanked. As co-founder of ATM, Acrylic Tank Manufacturing, Brett along with his brother in law, rose to celebrity status as they built custom aquariums for high profile clients and top notch celebrities and professional athletes World wide.
The wildly popular show was the highest rated program on Animal Planet and ran for fifteen seasons filming over 156, one hour episodes. Tanked is still aired on Animal Planet and is broadcast in over 190 countries in 35 different languages. Many industry experts attributed the rapid growth in the aquarium hobby, including advances in fish keeping technology and responsible captive breeding programs to Brett and the very popular show. Brett has been Designing and Building aquariums for over 25 years and is still very active in the aquarium hobby. Educating the public about the aquatic world and supporting marine conservation is a big component of Bretts mission, Brett is the perfect guy to get this message out there. After a 3 year Hiatus from Designing and Building aquariums Brett is now back with a new team. Taking projects and aquariums to the next Level.
TIME | Show Floor | Fluval Main Stage | Feature Stage | Fish Stream Media Lounge | Aqueon Kids Corner |
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10:00 AM | VIP Entry | ||||
11:00 AM | Early Bird Entry | ||||
12:00 PM | Rodrigo Rojas - The Art of Keeping Predatory Fish | Reef Therapy Live | |||
1:00 PM | GA Entry | Salem Clemens - Coral Disease Under the Microscope | Intro to Freshwater With Shawn Hale of Fritz Aquatics | Mermaid Photo Op | |
2:00 PM | Speaker - Intermediate Freshwater | Intro to Saltwater with George Mavrakis of Coralfish 12g | |||
3:00 PM | Tanner Serpa - Freshwater Workshop | FRESHWATER SCAPE OFF | |||
4:00 PM | Thomas Burton - Reef Aquarium VS Dart Frog Vivarium | Workshop - Advanced Freshwater | |||
5:00 PM | Raffle | ||||
6:00 PM | Close |
TIME | Show Floor | Fluval Main Stage | Feature Stage | Fish Stream Media Lounge | Aqueon Kids Corner |
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10:00 AM | VIP Entry | ||||
11:00 AM | Early Bird Entry | Dustin Wunderlich - The Easy Planted Aquarium | Workshop - Reptile | ||
12:00 PM | Bret Raymer - Topic TBA | Workshop - Pond | |||
1:00 PM | GA Entry | Marc Levenson - What I Use to Maintain my Reef | Workshop - Art | Mermaid Photo Op | |
2:00 PM | Paul Cuffaro - Topic TBA | FRAG OFF | |||
3:00 PM | Aquashella Awards | ||||
4:00 PM | Raffle | ||||
5:00 PM | Close |
TIME | Show Floor | Fluval Main Stage | Hikari Feature Stage | Fish Stream Media Lounge | Aqueon Kids Corner |
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10:00 AM | VIP Entry | VIP Meet & Greet | |||
11:00 AM | Early Bird Entry | Speaker - Jen Wanner | Dirty Jobs: Aquarium Maintenance Tips and Tricks | |||
12:00 PM | Speaker - Alexa Borrego | Tips for maintaining multiple aquariums | Hiep Hong Aquascaping Tutorial | |||
1:00 PM | GA Entry | Speaker - Keri O'neil | Management of a large-scale coral spawning program | FRAG OFF Redemption Round | Mermaid Photo Op | |
2:00 PM | Speaker - Will Nace | How Aquatics Changed my Reptile Hobby | Jelly Fish Demo & Giveaway with Jelly Fish Art | Axolotls Live with Louisville Axolotle | ||
3:00 PM | Speaker - Andrew Sandler | FRESHWATER SCAPE OFF | Animal Encounter with Will Nace | ||
4:00 PM | Speaker - Julian Sprung | My Saltwater Pond: inspiration, design features, and lessons learned | TMK Aquarist Live Scaping | |||
5:00 PM | Raffle | ||||
6:00 PM | Close |
TIME | Show Floor | Fluval Main Stage | Hikari Feature Stage | Fish Stream Media Lounge | Aqueon Kids Corner |
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10:00 AM | VIP Entry | VIP Meet & Greet | |||
11:00 AM | Early Bird Entry | Speaker - Marc Levenson | |||
12:00 PM | Speaker - Jeff Miotke | Aquascaping: Create Living Art | Levi Peterson NPS Corals For Beginners Workshop | |||
1:00 PM | GA Entry | Speaker - Jason Adams | Fish Keeping Myths EXPOSED! | Women In Reefing Open Panel Discussion | Mermaid Photo Op | |
2:00 PM | Speaker - Sara Stevens | A Proactive Approach to Coral Health: How to Diagnosis and Treat Disease in Your Reef | Grant Eder Shrimp Keeping Workshop | Axolotls Live with Louisville Axolotle | ||
3:00 PM | Aquashella Awards | Animal Encounter with Will Nace | |||
4:00 PM | Raffle | ||||
5:00 PM | Close |