TheEssigs

Do you guys belong to an Aquarium Club?

jsalemi

No. I am a firm Groucho Marxian: "I would never join a club that would have me as a member."

MagpieTear

Not yet. I need to try to stay up late enough to attend a GPASI meeting (I'm usually in bed by 9 PM, getting up early sucks) It's somewhere in Pittsburgh, which I know about as well as I do Downtown Cairo....

Chief_waterchanger

Dino and I are members of Atlanta Area Aquarium Association. Dino is on the board of directors of that club. I think he is also a member of the Charlotte, North Carolina club, he'd have to tell their proper name...I forgot it.

Dino

CAAs, is the name of the Charlotte club.

Their website is:

http://pvelasco.net/CAASBBS/index.php

AAAA, Atlanta's club:

http://www.atlantaaquarium.com/

Butterfly

Member of AAAA See Dinos post for website
Carol

Dino

See pictures of Dino at the AAAA website.

TheEssigs

The nearest club to us is about an hour from here... I was curious... I'd love to find breeders in my area or hobbiests to trade with. I think the club charges a fee to belong tho, somewhere in the range of $30 a year, but if you just want to go to meeting on occasion they charge a guest fee of $5 that you pay at the door. Does yours charge a fee or is it free?

Butterfly

I believe it was $15 for my hubby and myself.
i believe Dino drives 1-1/2 to 2 hours to go to meetings
Carol

zigmeister

I am a member of a pseudo aquarium club....lol. One of the docs I work with has been a hobbyist for years. We compare notes and I pick his brain when I have a problem. Two other people I work with have gotten aquariums since I started. We all share thoughts and ideas. So we are sort of a club... maybe.. lol

TheEssigs

We have infected of our friends as well Zig! Hey, the more of us with MTS the better!

Dino

Dino sleeps in the back of the van while my parents drive the 3.5 hours to Atlanta.
Sometimes twice a month if there is a board member meeting.

The AAAA yearly memberships is 15$ a person.
There is no guest fee.
But members recieve point for attending meetings ( and other club activities) which can be used to bid on auctions at a point only auction at the end of the year.

zigmeister

theessigs, I got my daughter hooked as well (Catersun). She now has 3 tanks.. Makes it easy to Christmas shop... just get gift cards to the fish store.. lol

Kevin

dont tell her!
haha...i hope i get some of those!

COBettaCouple

we joined the CAS (Colorado Aquarium Society) after moving here to Denver.

Tom

I belong to the Aquarium Society of Winnipeg. I live a couple of minutes away from where the meetings are held.

Dino, you only have 265 BAP points, I know someone that has over 2000. I get a lot of local bred fish from him. lol
Tom

Allie

We were members of the ECAS, East Coast Aquarium Society...but they treated us weird for having piranha. Assuming we only fed them feeders. Grr! If you were to stand up for your actions on their forum they'd ban you for dis agreeing with the moderators/. It's run terribly. It's shame b/c most of the members were/are true hobbyist.
So we didn't bother renewing our membership, neither did a lot of members who don't like how they run the society. One member research all Canadian fish societies, Nova Scotian fish keepers are either weird jealous people, or really cool fish people who are in for the hobby not to be competitive with other members. Our society is ran by the wrong people.
It doesn't matter anyhow, we go to our local fish store so much that my bf has become friends with the fish room guys. We get our own discount which is much better than we got with our ECAS membership.

Dino

Thats only what I have turned in since 2003.
You can only turn in a species once.
So, all the guppies I breed do not add to my BAP points, nor the angels, bn species I have already turned in, ect.

Also, that list is several months out of date.