Are you a saltwater enthusiast? Do you own a FOWLR, grow SPS, LPS or soft coral, or just want to learn about the hobby in general? The Connecticut Area Reef Society is JUST for you then!! Meet great people who have the same interests in the saltwater hobby as you do. Learn from other members' experience in a no pressure atmosphere. Unlike the advice you may receive at a local fish store (LFS), CTARS members can give you unbiased opinions products and livestock. It is the best way to learn about the hobby.
Great source for frags. We trade and raffle frags at every meeting. Many of the more proliferate corals, such as Xenia, Colt coral, green star polyps, leather corals, mushrooms and polyps are donated to new members. Macro algae can always be had for free. You can also trade sand bed samples with other members to improve the diversity of your sand bed organisms or reseed your sand bed.
Raffles. A chance to win more expensive corals for the price of a few raffle tickets ($1.00 each or 6 for $5.00). We also have gift certificates as prizes from different local fish stores.
Discounts at several local stores ranging from 10% to 20% for card carrying members. Group Buys and Specials.
Borrowing expensive equipment such as a PAR meter, pH meter, TDS meter, and top of the line test kits.
Great Speakers! Once or twice year CTARS hosts a well-known expert in the hobby for a special meeting.
Annual CMAC (CTARS Marine Aquarium Conference). This is where over two dozen vendors get together in one place as well as two to four speakers for an amazing day for any saltwater enthusiast. It's like Christmas all over again!
Who are our members?
We have members from all walks of life: Students (college and high school), teachers, machinists, IT guys (and gals) members of the allied health services. Experience ranges from those who still haven't purchased a tank, to those that with 5-10+ years with reef tanks. Many people are also into freshwater fishes too. Interests in the hobby range from nano-tanks dominated by zoos, to 200 gallon SPS tanks. We have folks who are skimmerless to folks with ozone enhanced skimmers. Sump and sumpless. Guys who are crazy about Angelfish to gals who love seahorses. Basically, if it can go in a salt water tank, we have someone who has experience with it.
Come join us at our next meeting! The first one is always free to anyone that wants to come check us out!
Visit us at http://www.ctars.org for more information
You can also find us on our forum at http://www.reef2reef.com/forums/connecticut-area-reef/
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