Knoxville New Member

[ree123]

bold bump.
hollar mike.

[ree123]

mike. see PM. later dude.

[ree123]

Well........a message here for Mike and Courtney and Mike W, but also a message to everyone who uses this forum and is a member of our club.

First....Thank you Mike and Courtney and Mike W. for allowing me to visit your homes and graciously showing me all your tanks and fish stuff. I thoroughly enjoyed myself. The 210 and stand I saw in Knoxville @ Mike and Courtney's was beautiful and is gonna look terrific when filled with Africans of all kinds!

And Mike W., thank you for sharing your set up of how you do water changes and the time you took to educate me. We learn so much from each other, and I for one will never stop learning, and am proud of your friendship.

I enjoyed my visit with all of you !

Second...Not only did I visit 2 of our fellow hobbyists, which we can all do from time to time, but I also went by 2 different pet stores in the E. TN area and successfully left some of my business cards by the checkout counter with the owners blessings. On the way home, when I stopped for gas, I had a clerk at a market to ask me about our club, because I had on a t-shirt I had made with our logo and web site on the front of it.

Then third.....tonight @ one of my kids travel baseball games, a kid who I have known for some time now, also ask about the same shirt, and he found out that I loved fish and so does he. He wants more info. and wants to consider joining. We're gonna talk more soon.

We gotta keep getting the word out about us everywhere we go. All of us. Growth is terrific for our club, and I do hope all can appreciate that, and each of you can do a little part to make that happen. I just ask that each of you keep that in mind and let us know how it goes here on the forum. Make a new fish friend somewhere and let us hear !!!

Have a good one everybody ! Enjoy each other and enjoy our great hobby !

Respectively,
Rick ---- aka ree123