No posts in over a week...?

[kevin95695]

There's gotta be somethin' goin' on up North...???

[Twisted]

the redding club is small and most of the people who attend the redding club talk to eachother in person a lot, so not much to say on the forms.

[kevin95695]

Good situation to have then. Bye!

[BBishop]

I attended the meeting last Friday. It was pretty much a no show.
Very disappointing.
I feel that there's not a lot of support for the club other than to attend frag swaps.
Anyone locally reading this, we need to promote ourselves and get new members interested and old members excited about our hobby.
There's so much to learn. New discoveries are being made all the time by people just like us. That's why I have stayed in the hobby for almost 40 years now. And I plan to be in it for another 40 years, God willing.

[Twisted]

Nobody I talked to even knew there was a club meeting.

Yes, I know, it's pretty much a fact that currently it is the first Friday of the month. But sometimes people get side tracked <especially with the holidays comming...fast> I didn't even know it was the first Friday of the month last Friday until I got the e-mail reminding me that the Chico club meeting is in a week.

The Redding club is going to go no where until club members start backing up the current club president. He can't be expected to handle the entire thing.

[nova67]

i do what i can to help the club but it never seems to do any good

[boviac]

There seemed to be quite a few people who showed up at the Deep a few weeks ago for the frag demo. It did seem to me that people there appeared to be very social in person. That could explain the lack of posting here but I wonder why the RARE club has such little participation. Maybe see if you could work out deal with an LFS to hold a sale specifically to meeting members after the mtg. Maybe try to have the meeting at a regular place instead of at a different house. I'll try to talk with Brian more on Friday about ideas that can help the club up there out. Surely collectively we can benifit more as proven by other clubs success. We just need to have a few motivated people that can push the success and carryover to ongoing officers. That being said it is also important to keep the club in a positve atmosphere. Just my two cents as always. :D

[NorCalReef]

I am not a member, but have been in the hobby for a while now. I have seen the club sign up and have inquired about it, but it never sparked anything with me so I did'nt join. What goes on at the meetings? How long are they? etc..

In order for people to want to come I think they need to be interesting and benefical.

[boviac]

NorCalReef.... Checkout the Chico Reef Club Forum http://reefcentral.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?s=&forumid=472

See if you like what we've got going on. Brian and Matt often come all the way down from Redding to our meetings.

We just had a pretty good meeting with about four or five new faces and afterwards an increadible opportunity where one could pick up some pretty amazing corals to help out a fellow club member with an unfortunate situation.

[BBishop]

Nothing like getting stepped on.

With that said, I have to admit that the club is falling apart.
I will still attend out of dedication, but NorCal you are right, we need an agenda.

I work in San Luis Obispo so it’s real hard for me to put anything together, let alone promote the club.

[NorCalReef]

Bill, How many members are in the club?

[nova67]

there are only a few members in the club.it has been really hard to get people to come to the meetings.if you have any ideas on how to get peolpe to come we would be glad to here them.

[bkoz]

I guess the first thing would be to make sure people know when and were the meetings are? Mabye put a flyer at the LFS's?? Id be interested in participating if I knew when/were ahead of time.

[Twisted]

<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=11124356#post11124356 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by BBishop
I attended the meeting last Friday. It was pretty much a no show.
Very disappointing.
I feel that there's not a lot of support for the club other than to attend frag swaps.
Anyone locally reading this, we need to promote ourselves and get new members interested and old members excited about our hobby.
There's so much to learn. New discoveries are being made all the time by people just like us. That's why I have stayed in the hobby for almost 40 years now. And I plan to be in it for another 40 years, God willing.

I hate to say it, but Bill has the whole concept right there....

I feel that there's not a lot of support for the club other than to attend frag swaps.
we need to promote ourselves and get new members interested and old members excited about our hobby.

[josh holt]

bkoz, we have had fliers at the lfs. we even had a signup sheet on the front counter of the deep. about making it interesting and having an agenda, not enough people have been interested or shown up at one time to even discuss where to take the club.

[Twisted]

Good point Josh. What's the most people you have seen at a meeting when frag swap info was not be discussed?

The BAR frag swap meeting I think was the biggest RARE meeting and was like 18 people. Other then that 6 to 10 is all I have ever seen.

So perhaps planning a large bash one night to kind of kick things off for the club would be what it takes, get something going for one night everyone will be interested in, then someone will have to announce that the club is entering a "restructering" phase and find out when everyone there would be able/willing to attend meetings.

Like you said, the key would be getting everyone in the same room for one get together, from there perhaps it will build. The Frank Burr Demo actually had a pretty good turn out. Something like that, but preferablly a bit bigger might work.

[boviac]

Sorry BBishop - didn't intend to step on anyone or RARE. I was simply trying to direct NorCal to our forum to show what's going on - not take away potential members- however when I read my post now I see how that can be constrewed.

One thing we do since we have no cash is request some of the more knowedgleable members do a brief presentation about a coral type. That often opens up a group discussion about said corals, feeding, lighting, flows, experience. etc. We've done zoanthids and Mushrooms and last time I did an overview of DIY projects. Once an LFS whose owner happens to be a member of our club as a hobbiest, swapped hats back to owner after the meeting and offered a pretty decent discount to meeting attendees on zoanthids.

That offer has been provided by the aformentioned LFS to occur again.

[josh holt]

another thought would be to combine chico and redding clubs and alternate meetings. one month in redding the other in chico. the downside is not everone is willing or able to make the drive.

[Twisted]

I actually talked to a couple people about combining the club. And the draw back is just as you said. You have about 8 people in Redding that were always going to meetings and of those 8 Only Matt and my self have been going to Chico on a regular basis. I know Steve has gone to some in the past. An hour and a half trip once a month isn't bad especially with a car pool.
But Chico has 20+ members per meeting for all but one meeting I have gone to, and asking 20+ people to come up to Redding is a lot to ask.
So sadly yhere is much reason for Chico to want to come up here.
I also suggested perhaps alternating from Chico to Red Bluff then it would only be a 45 minute trip for everyone all around, but then you don't have the tank viewings after wards and such.

I don't know enough brain storming and I sure something will come up.
Normally I would suggest everyone just car pooling to Chico, but I really can't offer that right now my wife is pregnant, so sometimes she may not feel like staying the whole time, or not feeling like going at all, so I really can't offer anyone a ride. Matt rides down with me if my wife goes with that understanding, and if my wife doesn't feel up to it I usually ride down with Matt.
If even two people go in one car and one buys gas, and the other buys the dinner it evens out pretty well.

So something to think about. The last few meetings in Chico have been great, raffles, Joel torn down all the SPS and LPS corals from his tank and auctioned them last meeting, next meeting will probablly have not have anything, and be more of a social affair for the holidays.
The last Meeting the club also decided to file as an Inc. and apply for a non-profit status allowing us to do public fund raiser, as well as legally hold raffles.
Chico is on a great upward swing and I would like to see as many people involved as possible.

By the way Josh how is the tank comming along?

[josh holt]

my tank is one reason why i havent been around for awhile. the other is the drag car. i have finally decided what im going to do. im going to do strickly zoanthids. i like the colors you get and its less time consuming than my sps tank was. i figure this way i can have a great looking tank and still have time to ride my dirtbike and race the drag car.

[josh holt]

oh yeah brian way off topic but the crx ran a 13.0 @ 110 mph on 10psi of boost spinning in first gear. i figure not bad for a $200 car and an ebay turbo kit.

[Twisted]

That's sweet. Once I figured out my fuel problem I think I was running like 14's with a $9k car which I found later had a crap motor shoved in it.
We are in the process of doing a refinance on the house, and since my wife is pregnant, I figured if I don't do anything with the firebird now, I'm not going to, so I am taking out another 5k to finish the 455 that's in the back shop, and fix a few other things on it. So hopefully I will be up and running and maybe even have the new motor broke in for a pass or two next summer.

As far as zooanthids you are more then welcome to come get frags of any of my big colonies. My better zoas are slow growers so might be awhile before I am ready to part with any, but I am sure I can get you a few nice one.
Well, you have a new tank, so not sure if you want to risk getting bubble algae again, I am sure I can get a few clean frags, but I can't promise that it won't spread...

[josh holt]

this thread is getting off topic so i will start another thread about my tank. we need to keep this one going on about the club. if anyone has any ideas that have not been discussed or tried please chime in.

[tropoasis]

Hi All :D

Watching your posts here.... I just thought I would speak up and offer my services at a future meeting again....

If you folks are interested, I would be happy to do a actual lecture presentation for the club sometime in the near future.

I have several presentations available and just got another idea from one of the posts in this thread :)

Ideas for meeting places.... The Vegas club has occasionally met at members house for a Reef Raising or something similar or just to check out the tank(s)

Keep it up, you've got a great group of reefers up there..... hope to see the club grow

Frank

[josh holt]

hi frank. what presentations do you have? maybe we can take a vote and see which one people would like most.

[josh holt]

as far as the meeting places we used to do a tank tour every meeting but with so few members we ran out of tanks real fast. then they tried holding meetings at peoples houses but not everyones house is suitable to hold the meeting.

[josh holt]

so it looks like its back to no one chatting on here. is there anything new from anybody? my tank hasnt changed. i have been checking the stores but no zoas that i like have come in.

[Twisted]

Yup, dead quiet....

I got a couple heads of a small branching Dendro from Rob over at Underwater Paradise the last weekend, and ended up going through there again this weekend and bought a small frag of some odd pallys he had, I will try to get a picture of them when they open up.

[bkoz]

Is there going to be a meeting this month??

[nova67]

yes there is a meeting on fri jan 4th at tims house at 6:30pm.i will post the address as soon as i get it.

[wisebonzai]

Sorry I didn't make the meeting, but I did make it to the forum. :)

WiseBonzai

[nova67]

hey renee thats ok there is always next month.got the pics of the tank.

[wisebonzai]

Glad to hear that. Glad to find the forum. If you guys ever need help with anything, let me know...I will become a member as of next month and me and the hubby will attend monthly. I can help advertise it.

Renee