Compared to last year our impression is that the official booths of the various brands have increased, but that at the same time there was less space occupied by shops with stuff for sale. Even this year we had got the honor to have with us the Fauna Marin’s stand with its owner Claude Schuhmacher, but we can not even forget the International presence of Leng Sy, Miracle Mud’s inventor, at the interesting Corallinea‘s stand, as well as the presence and the conferences of Mike Paletta.
The marine aquarium shown by the boys of Hobby Aquariums in the ReefLine stand right next to the entrance of the event was beautiful. It was a particular aquarium with amazing hard corals, both SPS and LPS type. It’ just very hard to show photographically how it really was…
As already seen some months ago at the Interzoo, here our editorial, the freshwater is certainly turned to the Aquascaping. And the PetsFestival wasn’t less… the events were so many, really so many. We can’t remind all of them, but we saw, in a random order: Oliver Knott at the Gaia‘s stand with sponsorship by Anubias, Dario Schelfi at the Elos‘ booth, Simone Castagnoli at the XAqua – Crystal Reef, Samuele Gamberini at the Aqamai – Hydor, Roberto Bielli, Greg Charlet and Enrico Fortuna at the Gaia – Equo’s booth, whose we will show a beautiful documentary. Finally the triumph of the competition between ITAU and FACT, of which we have already spoken here (sorry only in italian for now) and in which challenged six aquascapers with an international relevance, three italian and three french. Giuseppe Nisi, Fabio Lorusso and Enrico Fortuna for the ITAU against Greg Charlet, Michael Leroy and Sebastien Dechelette for the FACT – French Aquarium Creation Team.
As the other years, there were many shops, but as we have already said at the opening, they seemed a little less than the last edition. Probably it was just an optical effect because from the words of the staff they should have increased. Maybe they were an higher number with a smaller available space. In fact, we don’t know.
The corals were a lot, and they was very beautiful, but as it happens in such events the main part was gone at the very beginning, and after a couple of hours on Saturday morning the most beautiful were gone or had been optioned. I knew I would not be able to take pictures of every booth at their best, so I waited Sunday to take pictures, knowing very well that all that I would have taken up would have been crumbs. But what crumbs!
And do not forget Aquaportal and Reef Bastards, that took the necessary light heartedness and most of all they made themselves available for helping the enthusiasts, guiding them, feeding them like crazy and also with corals available to users. Without them an event like this would have tasted differently!
There hasn’t been a problem to be reported during the all event and this is another positive point of it.
So congratulation to everyone. The exhibition has been an indisputable success. Who wasn’t there made a big mistake, as I always say and as I always repeat.
We apologize from now if we’ll forget, involuntarily, to speak about someone who was present, we’re ready to remember the ones that have not been mentioned, we just need a your notice about.
There have been very important news, like Elos that presented an amazing Nitrates test, focalized upon values between 0 and 1!
For the first time in Italy, Aqamai shown its own LRM ceiling lights and KPS motion pumps. And we will talk about all of this in a specific article.
Corallinea bore a lot of news, from the Aqua Air ceiling lights, to skimmers, to a particular fill up system for smaller aquariums… All objects we’re going to see and to discover in the next days.
And you, what do you think? How did you see the exhibition? Do you agree our comments? Each one of your comments will receive our answers… and maybe it will useful for the organization of the event.
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