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Gary Majchrzak
Team RC
welcome to URS!
welcome to URS!
you just joined
this is an informal club- no dues and no regularly scheduled meets....
this forum is where the vast majority of public action takes place.
Enjoy your stay! :wave:
welcome to URS!
you just joined
this is an informal club- no dues and no regularly scheduled meets....
this forum is where the vast majority of public action takes place.
Enjoy your stay! :wave:
der_wille_zur_macht
Team RC
I'll PM you the paypal account to submit your monthly dues of $100 to, gimmie a sec...
St.james of reefdom
New member
Hi Welcome to URS...
teamdulski
The Saltiest!
Welcome, my fiance is originally from Angola.
mr86mister
Saltaholic
xXxSpyderxXx
New member
do you need me to re-give you my paypal info again so you spell it right when you PM him?
Formalizing the club was a nice idea.Particularly the idea of shared equipment like higher end light meters(par meters) for sharing and a couple of speaking events by aquarists of note .As it turned out most chose to keep it informal as it is now.
I think it will be a few months before a frag swap comes up but maybe someone will do a reef crawl, a roving band of aquarium nuts jumping from house to house to check out puddles of salt water. They can be fun.
I think it will be a few months before a frag swap comes up but maybe someone will do a reef crawl, a roving band of aquarium nuts jumping from house to house to check out puddles of salt water. They can be fun.
der_wille_zur_macht
Team RC
I like things the way they are. We have lots of nice benefits (frag trades, other events) and a really great sense of community, but we don't have the drama or "overhead" that's killed off many other clubs over the years (as is evident if you lurk around the other club forums on this site).
Yeah once a formal structure comes into play , human nature gets political and those issues tend to dwarf the reef issues and take some of the fun out of it all.
The folks we had leading the effort here were stellar though and genuinely interested in the good of the hobby and the animals and folks in it. We were lucky to have them step up and try it and had some nice events and dialogue.
Not all are like that. A formal club can get a life of it's own that isn't always in sync with what it's members want out of it.Some of them tend to silence members and take odd and confrontational positions reflective of the idiosyncrasies of some club officers and not the other hobbyists in the geographic area ,they claim to represent.
I like the open informal way with many voices . It seems to suit an evolving dynamic hobby. It encourages indepedent action. Anyone with an event idea only has to be willing to guage interest on this forum and then do the work of coordinating it.Anyone with a position on a reefkeeping technique only needs to state it and be prepared to defend it without acrimony.
The folks we had leading the effort here were stellar though and genuinely interested in the good of the hobby and the animals and folks in it. We were lucky to have them step up and try it and had some nice events and dialogue.
Not all are like that. A formal club can get a life of it's own that isn't always in sync with what it's members want out of it.Some of them tend to silence members and take odd and confrontational positions reflective of the idiosyncrasies of some club officers and not the other hobbyists in the geographic area ,they claim to represent.
I like the open informal way with many voices . It seems to suit an evolving dynamic hobby. It encourages indepedent action. Anyone with an event idea only has to be willing to guage interest on this forum and then do the work of coordinating it.Anyone with a position on a reefkeeping technique only needs to state it and be prepared to defend it without acrimony.
