[Home_Depot]

Hello I was browsing around the net trying to find some new sites to join and came across this one. I have had a tank since about 2000 and love it. At the moment I have a 125 mixed reef,I live in Northern MN and am the Admin of a reef forum here and if it ok I will post the address so that any of you that would like to join there can. But dont want my first post to be my only one..LOL

[pogodzib]

Welcome to RB Garrett! Feel free to post information about your local reef club. The most people know how to get in contact with their local reef keepers, the more everyone in the club benefits. My local club now regularly has over 60 people attend meetings. Not bad for a community of about 80,000.

[Home_Depot]

Great thanks our forum is at Free forum : Northern Minnesota Reef Club

I just wish the LFS would tell more people about the club but they are funny about that.

[pogodzib]

We have a LFS that tells everyone, and partly because of that and their involvement with the reef club, they get 90% of the business over the other LFS's. Yes, letting people about a reef club may take away some of his short term business, but having a good local reef club will help to ensure that people get the good advice that they need while starting out so they stay in the hobby. Having good reef club also draws people from outside the area for meetings, which also benefits the stores because those people will often stop by your LFS to see what they have.

What I would suggest it asking your LFS if you can place a poster advertising your reef club in their store. This way, they don't need to spend any time doing anything and people can see that there is a local reef club.