New Members... Fresh Corals!
Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2004 7:13 pm
I was just looking over the list of members (I was looking for a guy who emailed me from New Orleans)... and I realized we have a bunch of new people!
I'd really like to hear from these guys (gals). I don't mean to insinuate any second meaning (you know, “us” being from the Deep South and everything), but our coral tanks are starting to become "inbred".
We’ve got 161 members, of which, 8 have signed up this month! If we could get a fraction of just the new members to attend the meeting, and maybe some of the old ones (John), then we could really get away from the incestuous cycle it appears we’re settling in to. All I’m saying is that I think we all pretty much have the same corals from the same people.
I’m not preaching over here or anything… I’ve been a hesitant frager myself up until now because my corals have been pretty darn small… But man, we might have some corals the new members have never had/seen before and vise-versa!
Let’s try to get some of the new guys to the next couple of meetings and introduce ourselves. When I joined everyone was REALLY friendly and many of you offered me free frags to get me going. Let's go the extra step and everyone (me too!) bring some frags to catch the newbies up to our level of variety! We can get all the "Ivan" victims restocked at the same time.
What do you guys think? Can we go from our usual generous selves to magnanimously charitable? (<-- Ya, I looked that one up in a dictionary... I'm not sure if the meaning is "on the money", but is sure feels/looks right and is fun to say!)
I'd really like to hear from these guys (gals). I don't mean to insinuate any second meaning (you know, “us” being from the Deep South and everything), but our coral tanks are starting to become "inbred".
We’ve got 161 members, of which, 8 have signed up this month! If we could get a fraction of just the new members to attend the meeting, and maybe some of the old ones (John), then we could really get away from the incestuous cycle it appears we’re settling in to. All I’m saying is that I think we all pretty much have the same corals from the same people.
I’m not preaching over here or anything… I’ve been a hesitant frager myself up until now because my corals have been pretty darn small… But man, we might have some corals the new members have never had/seen before and vise-versa!
Let’s try to get some of the new guys to the next couple of meetings and introduce ourselves. When I joined everyone was REALLY friendly and many of you offered me free frags to get me going. Let's go the extra step and everyone (me too!) bring some frags to catch the newbies up to our level of variety! We can get all the "Ivan" victims restocked at the same time.
What do you guys think? Can we go from our usual generous selves to magnanimously charitable? (<-- Ya, I looked that one up in a dictionary... I'm not sure if the meaning is "on the money", but is sure feels/looks right and is fun to say!)