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PjFish

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Wondering if any of our members have been involved with other reef clubs across the country or world and how they compare to BAR? Frag swaps/club support/ plethora of goods and livestock exchanges/ and of course enablers?
 
PjFish said:
Wondering if any of our members have been involved with other reef clubs across the country or world and how they compare to BAR? Frag swaps/club support/ plethora of goods and livestock exchanges/ and of course enablers?
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There’s the Facebook groups that I know a lot of us are also in but I don’t know if that’d count for what you’re referring to
 
PjFish said:
Never had FB.. does the group do frag swaps/ offer free physical labor lol and help triage questions?
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They haven’t done swaps that I’m aware of. People ask questions/advice here and there and post tank/coral pics but I think they’re more selling forums. Definitely not as community like as BAR. But many of the members here I’ve seen on there.
 
A great question actually. I am in a German club (based in Germany), but more for (very) different perspectives than for participation - attended a couple of Zoom calls though, and their whatsapp group provides instant suggestions/help for problems, if needed. Given they are nationwide, they do not do a lot of in person meetings.

Reef2Reef seems to have a good overview of many of the clubs that exist nationwide and I believe also international. Boston is very active, and Southern California too, I believe, similar to what we do.

I wonder if anyone is in clubs in Asia or Australia - I would suspect that the Australians know a ton about reefing.
 
PjFish said:
Never had FB.. does the group do frag swaps/ offer free physical labor lol and help triage questions?
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There are a few local FB groups, but they don’t really organize large frag swaps, though some of the local shops will do VIP type things, it’s usually more one to one sales/trades/help/advice etc. Quite a few people here are in the same FB groups I am.
 
I was part of one in Taiwan almost 10 years ago. it was mainly a Line (messaging app) group that would chat, share setups and deals, ask/answer questions. went to a group bbq meetup with maybe 50-70 people at a lfs. no frag swaps but at a dinner meet up, there was a raffle. definitely more drinking involved and not as much dbtc, pif or social mindedness compared to bar.
 
Srt4eric said:
At the swap @t0mmy108 was talking about being in one in Texas
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I was a member of MARSH (Marine aquarium reef society of Houston. Did a few tank tours, frag swaps, Christmas party where one of the members was Santa. Eric Borneman was getting his PhD at the university of Houston, dept of biology when he started the club with a few others. BAR seems to do more in terms of how the frag swap is organized, aquarium tours, DBTC, and free equipment loans for members. We more or less used the forums to do most of the exchanges of information, livestock and equipment similarly. I think this club is doing a lot already and is working well for the hobby and users of the forums.
 
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I had the privilege to visit a TON of club events all over the US while I was at Reef Nutrition.

There are a ton of clubs like BAR. I would say a majority of the ones I visited where very similar.

Back in the day, all the regional clubs worked together, BAR, SEABAY, MARS, CVR, NVR
 
I still think it would be cool to do exchanges with other clubs. Certain corals here are cheap and abundant but likely not in other places, and likely vice versa.
If I’d have been able to keep my system up and running I was about to start shipping boxes to other areas and hope people were cool about sharing in the ways that made the most sense and worked for them
 
I know a lot of other clubs call their "frag swaps" what we'd consider the coral farmers market e.g. people set up tanks and sell their frags instead of drafting choices for free. Some of the other things we do aren't covered as explicitly in them either, but fall under the general "reefers code" category.

It would be great to have a little cross-pollination though with our DBTC and any other programs clubs are involved in. Highly encourage everyone to attend our BOD meetings so you can get these suggestions and ideas in.
 
Darkxerox said:
I know a lot of other clubs call their "frag swaps" what we'd consider the coral farmers market e.g. people set up tanks and sell their frags instead of drafting choices for free. Some of the other things we do aren't covered as explicitly in them either, but fall under the general "reefers code" category.

It would be great to have a little cross-pollination though with our DBTC and any other programs clubs are involved in. Highly encourage everyone to attend our BOD meetings so you can get these suggestions and ideas in.
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Yeah, most are tables and you trade or sell with them. To give credit where credit is due, pretty sure BAR got the idea from SEABAY.
 
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