GREEN BAY AQUARIUM SOCIETY

January 14, 2009

7. Old Business:  1. Foster’s and Smith field trip- will be Saturday Jan 24th 2009.We will meet at the Burger King/ Truck Stop by Bonduel at the Hwy 29 and 47 intersection at 8:00 a.m. If you plan to go or want more information and live in the Appleton area contact Bruce at 920-734-9095 or if you live in the Green Bay area contact Keith at 920-391-1014. 2. Second Computer- Jeff said that he would be able to get us a desktop computer but the members felt that a laptop would better fit our needs. We discussed the different options available to us. It was determined that we needed to do more research. For the spring auction we will use our laptop and a computer provided by Corie. This will give us more time to better fill our needs. We will do a trial run with the two computers at the February meeting.  3. Tanks for raffle- Tad will check with aquarium manufacturers for a tank donation for the raffle.  4. Providing more public service - was tabled until we know the actual cost of future computers and  or computer programs.  5. Food Limits-Carrie was not in attendance.

 

 

         8. Sub-Committees: Auction- 1. Auctioneers- Keith will contact Mike and Marc to see if they are available to be auctioneers at March’s auction. Randy has already agreed to be an auctioneer. 2. Fun Money- will be distributed at this spring’s auction.

 

Web-site: Up and running

 Library:     No report

 B.A.P.: No report

Field Trip:  1. Central Wisconsin Aquarium Society’s Auction (CWAS) – is on Sunday Feb 8th 2009.  We will meet at the Burger King/ Truck Stop by Bonduel at the Hwy 29 and 47 intersection at 9:00 a.m. If you plan to go or want more information and live in the Appleton area contact Sharon at 920-574-3552 or if you live in the Green Bay area contact Keith at 920- 391-1014. Sharon will send an e-mail notice on both field trips to all of the club members.( Which I did when I got home from the meeting)  2. Chicago Shop Hop is in the planning stage, if you have an interest in going contact Bruce.

 

  9.  New Business:   1. Continuous membership verses new membership- was discussed.                                                                 

   10.Open Forum: A. Discussed raising fish in 55 gallon barrels B. John, Bruce &   Deb shared on their experiences with fish and frogs jumping out of their tanks. C. On the fun side Midwest Cichlid Association has an online pole for changing the name from fish to sea kittens in hope that the sweeter name may prevent people  from   eating fish.

 

       11. B.A.P. No one brought fish

 

        12. Raffle:  won by Bruce

 

13.Next meeting is at Ron’s

 

14.Meeting closed at 8:57 p.m.