Madison Area Club
I have been approached on several occasions over the past year by different people aksing about the possibility of starting an all-species aquarium club in Madison, Wisconsin. This blog page is intended to be a place for interested persons to take part in a conversation about starting a club. If we can get a core group of about 20 interested people, then we could schedule a get together and have a more serious discussion.
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March 26th, 2008 at 8:54 pmHey Ted, You know i’m more than willing to participate,
March 29th, 2008 at 6:09 pmi maybe intrested in somthing like this. the GCCA has intrested me and you talking about the milwaukee club got me thinking too. but somthing closer to home would be nice…….
March 31st, 2008 at 8:36 pmI would be interested in being a member. Not sure how consistant my participation would be in the club though.
Chris
April 1st, 2008 at 7:06 amDepending on how often the club would meet, I’d be interested, although I’m by no means any kind of expert on anything! I just enjoy the hobby…
April 1st, 2008 at 9:05 amI would at least like to hear more about it.
April 1st, 2008 at 10:17 amTed, I am there as well.
Randy
April 1st, 2008 at 11:06 amI would liketo be a member where do I signed
April 2nd, 2008 at 6:23 pmIf we can get 15 - 20 people to show interest in this, I will plan a get-together / cookout at my place so that we can met and discuss the idea in detail. It would probably have to be on a Sunday afternoon later this Spring. If you know anyone else who might be interested, please direct them to this blog and ask them to add their comment.
April 3rd, 2008 at 10:37 pmTed, we should ask the local fish stores to post something about this. I ran into a worker at Aquarium Superstore yesterday who was really jazzed by the idea.
April 6th, 2008 at 2:48 pmHi Ted,
Sounds like a great idea. I think it would be very interesting to be involved with starting a club “from the ground up”.
April 6th, 2008 at 10:15 pmTed,
I’m more than willing to join a Madison fish club. I look forward to all of the great things I can learn. I may be able to recruit a person or two too.
Karen
April 7th, 2008 at 2:21 pmTed,
April 8th, 2008 at 9:25 amI have been hoping for a local club for quite a while. I would be happy to help in anyway I can. I work at the Aquarium Superstore on the west side, I can post club notices or whatever.
Hey Ted, I”ll post some stuff down here at the couple of stores in janesville and beloit with My contact info, maybe get some interest from down here. we could possibly have this start out as a meet at members places type situation like the Killi Club in wisconsin.
April 8th, 2008 at 10:27 amya i could talk to barb at preferred pets in janesville and see if i could put some kinda flyer up there im sure they would let me seeing how i used to wrk there and am a regular in there. also sunday afternoons would be cool….
April 9th, 2008 at 6:30 pmBy my count we are up to 12 interested people. Awesome. I think that we need at least 15 - 20 to give this venture a strong chance. Spreading the word through the stores is a good idea, but we need to make sure that the stores are comfortable with supporting a club. Since we are not yet a club I do not know if signage is appropriate yet.
If we want to set a day and time for a meeting at my home, we can do that. Here are some days that I can do it coming up this Spring: May 17th or 18th, May 24th or 25th, May 31 or June 1st.
April 10th, 2008 at 9:32 pmI’m game for any of those dates, Weekends are usually free for me save those that have MAS functions attatched to them
April 12th, 2008 at 11:43 amTed, I stopped in and talked to Paul briefly about a Madison Area General Fish club. He indicated I could post a notice that we are trying to find out the level of interest.
He went on to say that he would be happy to support the club in some way. For instance if we had a club ID Card he would be willing to offer club members a discount.
I thought we should post something along the lines of this?
Interested in a Madison Based General Fish club?
A small group of Madison area hobbiest have been talking about this for a while. If you are interested go to
http://WWW.TEDSFISHROOM.COM and look for the link concerning a potential Madison Club. Or call Randy Peterson at (608)
xxx xxxx.
Others posting notices could either just point at the blog or add their name and phone, or email address.
Thoughts,
I would be happy to put something like this together and get it into the stores if you are comfortable with that much.
April 13th, 2008 at 5:27 pmSounds good to me. I need to talk to Paul this week sometime, and will talk to him more about this idea. Thanks
April 13th, 2008 at 7:54 pmTed, I met you at the GCCA swap today and I am definitely interested in having a local club.
April 14th, 2008 at 12:10 amrandy let me know what you come up with as a flyer i could post some here in janesville too…. im 99% certain that prefurred pets would let me post somthing there on their board
April 15th, 2008 at 6:14 pmemail is shepdawg79@yahoo.com
April 15th, 2008 at 6:15 pmI spoke to The owners son at Prefferred pets today and he’s going to mention it to customers, I actaully worked there like a decade ago :o)
April 15th, 2008 at 10:03 pmHi Ted,
April 16th, 2008 at 10:09 pmWith the season behind me for the most part, have more free time now. Am up for helping out on this, can count me, +1. I would prolly avoid the weekend of the 24/25th as that is the weekend of the Classic.. There are a handful of hobby people that are employed with AS in Madison that we’re meeting up with this weekend, will mention/direct them this way as well.
micheal did he mention to you that brent doesnt own it anymore??? barb (the manager bought it from brent just about a year ago….you worked there about 10 years ago?? i worked there 01-02ish
sorry didnt mean to get off topic
April 18th, 2008 at 8:54 amMy count at the moment is 14 people, 10 of whom are in Dane County. Let’s get the signs out and see if it generates a few more. Randy, is there a plant club meeting next week?
April 19th, 2008 at 1:40 pmTed,
April 19th, 2008 at 2:03 pmI was just in Madison on friday, and I talk to a person at the local fish store about the club. I would be interested in being a member.
I spoke to barb’s Son, he works at the beloit location
April 21st, 2008 at 12:10 pmoh i never knew she had a son. i worked with her daughter for a bit in janesville
anyways lets get these flyers….
April 21st, 2008 at 7:35 pmTed, there is a plant club meeting this week on Wednesday night. I will not be there as I am traveling for work this week. But I did forward your information to John and I believe he is including this information in the club’s email news letter.
April 22nd, 2008 at 9:16 amI spoke with some of the folks at teh Janesville Preferred pets and they seemed to be indifferent to the idea of the club. I’m not holding much hope for support from there
michael
May 6th, 2008 at 1:42 pmI belong to MAG & would love another fish club, were & when ?
PS. thanks Randy for the heads up on this
June 7th, 2008 at 11:43 pmWell everyone… this discussion has sort of died away. I know that everyone gets pretty busy in the summer.
Unfortunately my schedule is so packed with fish-related events that I do not foresee a time to have a get together at my place anytime until after Labor Day. There is no reason why a get together could not be planned for somewhere else, however.
I would LOVE to see a club get started in the Madison area, but I just cannot be the spearhead to get it done. I will support the effort in every way I can, but my role will have to be as an active advisor. Someone else will have to do the ground work. Between the American Cichlid Association, the Milwaukee A. S., my speaking schedule and my planning for a trip tpo Africa in February… I am a tad swamped.
July 20th, 2008 at 10:19 pm