Steve Tyree
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Sounds cool. Will have to find that one. There is a fairly good and cheap breakfest place just down the road. Has an airport theme.
Reef Currents April 1, 2017 Houston, TX (ReefCurrents.org)
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You can never really say, but this year we have sold much more in pre-sales than when we had an attendance over 400 by a large margin, and could possibly sell out of Full Passes. I guess people are excited by the vendor, raffle and speakers this year
Opus
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Here is a link to their webpage. Looks like it is just a block or 2 down from the hotel on the opposite side of the street.
http://gumbojeauxs.com/
Steve Tyree
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Nice. Someone could make some money running lunches. Lol.
Steve Tyree
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What was your last show ?++me
Been years since I been to one and just recently slowly getting back into reefing. Looking forward to this.
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About 10 years ago. It was held @ The Westin within the Houston Galleria. Last time I got an H&S Skimmer Type 200-3xF2001. Funny part when looking back, the skimmer is still brand new/unused till this day (currently sitting in the unused sump too
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Opus
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Maybe I will try to trade a plate of fried catfish for a bounce!
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That was a long time ago. Might have been when Houston did a MACNAAbout 10 years ago. It was held @ The Westin within the Houston Galleria. Last time I got an H&S Skimmer Type 200-3xF2001. Funny part when looking back, the skimmer is still brand new/unused till this day (currently sitting in the unused sump too
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Funny story about the bounces. Was at WWC after they got the first bounce in. Victor WWC showed it too me and I could not figure out why anyone would want one. But Victor knew. Boy was I wrong. Nowadays that would have to be some real good catfish. If you bring in some blackened swordfish steaks, we might be talking.
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It is directly across the street. I highly recommend their firecracker salmon sandwich. Great stuff!
Opus
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True, and from what I understand there was a lot of internal club issues and things got ugly. As long as Uchin can keep up the Texas Coral Fest swaps I'll be happy.
Steve Tyree
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Did not know about the internal club problems. But me and Dirk were talking about what happened at the end of the last Next Wave. That is where he coined the curse term. We knew exactly what was coming the next few years. So CFM pulled out. Into that vacumm the Fest came, but CFM is not a part of the Fest. We did try to save that Next Wave. Marc called me 2-3 months out, chewed my butt off and lite a fire under me. Lol. Worked hard on it then. Got it from 40% booths reserved to about 75%. That was not enough. Attendance also collapsed.
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Addendum. Went over the history of that Dallas event. And actually we did two Next Waves after that Macna in 2012. So we gave it about as good as a fight as we could. Actually thought Dallas had beaten the problem in 2013. Even complimented Drew about that. But things were contracting even that year though. At any rate, Reef Currents is alive and stronger than ever. Lets forget about that history and look forward to a great Texas reefing event !
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FYI - Was pointed out to me that Joe Yaiullo's 20,000 gallon tank has been setup for more than one year. Dont know how long, but can we get that image corrected ?
Opus
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I bought my vendor area ticket a couple of days ago along with 100 raffle tickets. Hoping I can make myself get up at 5am so I can be there by the 11am opening. Hopfully I can walk away with a raffle item, but I'm very unlucky when it comes to raffles. I was very disappointed at the 1 MACNA I attended because I bought something like 400 tickets and didn't when anything and people around me said they only bought like 25 to 50 and they were winning multiple items.
Opus
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Well, my streak of not winning at the raffles continues. It wouldn't be so bad if there weren't people winning 3 or 4 different times. Just drills home how unlucky I am at these things.
The show was great though, good job everyone. Lots of vendors and some really good prices. Talking to a couple of vendors that I knew and they said foot traffic was really good. I only had a couple of corals on my "list" but I came home with a dozen. Hopefully Dallas can get their big show up and going again in the next couple of years.
The show was great though, good job everyone. Lots of vendors and some really good prices. Talking to a couple of vendors that I knew and they said foot traffic was really good. I only had a couple of corals on my "list" but I came home with a dozen. Hopefully Dallas can get their big show up and going again in the next couple of years.
