<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14697149#post14697149 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by poolkeeper1
There's Three local stores that are reef friendly but some of the best stuff comes from Club members like myself. MTRC is the name and well worth joining just for the 10% discount at all the local stores LFS that is. Welcome to TN and MTRC you'll find everyone friendly and willing to help in any way they can. One thing you'll miss it that AZ weather I'm from Cal and that is the one thing I miss!! When you get in town shoot a PM and I'll help If I can.
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14697363#post14697363 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by DMBillies
FWIW, I'm originally from PA/NJ and I find the weather here to be spectacular
I don't want to pat our own backs too much but MTRC has definitely maintained a pretty thriving club and it is definitely one of the biggest in the mid-south area (we have in the neighborhood of 75 paid members for 2009... and that number is bound to grow throughout the year).
Size isn't everything though, and I think you'll find that southern hospitality is not lost on the vast majority of members.
We've just got some new leaders voted in and if they execute even half of the plans they've got, MTRC will be doing better than ever.
Our LFS's are pretty amazing in supporting us and we generally rotate meetings through them so that we have 1 meeting a year at each store. I don't know what you are used to in terms of LFS size and quality in AZ, but I've never really wanted for much in the way of livestock that I couldn't have them order for me (at least). If you're looking for really high end corals you might be disappointed, but in my experience you pretty much need to go online anyway if you're looking for the really rare stuff.
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14697411#post14697411 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by waynesworld
Welcome to the area I am also a transplant I use to be in the Navy so I lived all over. I think you will like some of the stores they have a good selection of stuff and they get a long with the reefers. If you happen to be here house hunting or something on the 16th of May you could come on this trip it is going to be a blast.
http://www.reefcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=1604350
but if not we will be doing more during the year.
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14698185#post14698185 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by Byronc
I am enjoying all of this feedback! Do you hold meetings often, or do you keep it down to annual frag swaps?
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=14699130#post14699130 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by james3370
go ahead & start sitting in a sauna for a few hours a day to aclimate yourself for the humidity LOL
& don't forget to jump out of the sauna & stick your head in a freezer to get accustomed to the quick temperature changes...swear i've never been anywhere else where you run the heater in the morning, the ac all day & then the heater again on the way home hahahahaha
lastly, every once in a while just throw a cup of water over your head to prepare yourself for the short & sometimes violent rainstorns that come & go real quick
....which really helps w/ the humidity :mad2:
welcome to TN :rollface: