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CANBERRA DISTRICTS AQUARIUM SOCIETY
Welcome to the last Tank Talk for 2009. Attendance has dropped slightly at the CDAS
meetings the past couple of months, though the new faces that are turning up at the meetings
is encouraging.
There has been a lot of interesting and new items turning up in the auctions which is fantastic to see, we have had a few natives and even a marimo ball! Remember that to participate
in the auctions as a vendor you must be a member of CDAS. This, together with your enthusiastic participation in the club raffles has improved the bank balance dramatically; a special
thanks to everyone that has donated items for the raffle, it has sparked an enthusiastic interest from all members attending. We continue to use club funds to provide members with
club membership benefits such as discounted fish food, aquarium chemicals, the Christmas
meeting goodie box and members only raffle of aquatic species and plants.
The success of our raffles is due to some of the great prizes provided by our sponsors, Red
Tree Aquariums, Age of Aquariums and Aqua green as well as some generous donations
from CDAS members like Peppermint bristle nose catfish, UP-AQUA substrate and Red
Cherry Shrimp.
The committee has been working at improving the usefulness of the CDAS website and forum. You may have noticed that the forum has had some new topics added as well as having
content moved to the most appropriate topic area. The information about the breeders award
and species conservation program has been placed on both the website and forum, If you
haven?t been online recently it might be worth having a look
Website: http://drupal.cdas.org.au/
Forum: http://cdas.org.au/phpBB/
Despite all of these great developments, we still require a Junior committee member as well
as direction from the members in where you want to see this club go in the next year and
beyond. The committee has lots of ideas about what the club can do for the members but
with no guidance from the members the committee struggles to resolve if it would be of any
benefit to our members.
If you have not renewed your membership for this financial year, please do so at the next
meeting. Membership application forms are available at CDAS meetings and are required to
be completed by all new and renewing members.
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