Folks, if you've recently upgraded or renewed your annual club membership but it's still not active, please reach out to the BOD or a moderator. The PayPal system has a slight bug which it doesn't allow it to activate the account on it's own.
Depends on if you want to keep the lid or not. If you don't mind taking the whole lid off, any clip on light will do. If you want to keep the lid, then yeah you are probably going to have to replace the ballast or replace it all with some other type of lighting.
We have been to several and they are really worth going to. Besides the fabulous speakers and vendors, getting to meet and hang out with other fish geeks is really the highlight. MACNA is different from RAP in that people going to MACNA generally are traveling there and staying all weekend so...