Aquarium Fish International knows how important fish clubs are in the hobby — and we’d like to start profiling fish clubs and societies in a new column in our magazine! If you’re interested in having your fish club featured, please follow the instructions below. It’s easy to participate, and it’s free!
Here is how you can participate:
- Fill out the Aquarium Fish Club Profiles Questionnaire. If you can't open this file, just copy and paste the questions at the bottom of this page.
- Send us a few photos of your fish club. It can be a picture of a meeting, or just a portrait of the members. Just make sure it is a group shot.
- We would also like to have a couple of paragraphs about an outstanding member. Tell us why this person is such a good member, why you chose him/her and what s/he does for the club. Please also send a photo of that member. (THIS IS OPTIONAL)
For photos, we prefer regular prints (not laser printouts, which sometimes do not reproduce well). If you must send digital photos, they must be 300dpi, 4x5 inches print size, in .jpg format and sent on a CD (no e-mails or DVDs). If you are unsure if your digital photo is right, e-mail us just one sample so we can check it for you.
Send the questionnaire, photos and write-up about the outstanding member as a package by e-mail to aquariumfish@bowtieinc.com or by postal mail to:
Aquarium Fish International
P.O. Box 6050
Mission Viejo, CA 92690
If e-mail is much easier for you, remember to send no more than a couple of images in one e-mail. If too much information is put into one e-mail, our inboxes won’t receive them.
These profiles will run in the 2009 issues of Aquarium Fish International. They will likely run in the order that we received them.
Aquarium Fish Club Profiles Questionnaire
1. Where do you meet and how often?
2. How many members do you have, approximately?
3. How did your club get started?
4. What are some of the typical things that go on at your meetings?
5. What level of hobbyist tends to join your club?
6. Are you affiliated with any larger organization?
7. Do a lot of your members breed fish?
8. Do you have any breeding programs?
9. What city/cities do most of your members come from?
10. What is the largest amount of fish tanks that any member has?
11. (Optional) Collectively, how many tanks do your members maintain?
12. If you are a freshwater club, do some of your members keep saltwater also?
13. If you are a saltwater club, do some of your members keep freshwater also?
14. Do you have a newsletter?
15. What’s your website?
16. What makes your club unique?
17. Do you have any contests?
18. Do you have a library and/or any other special services for your members?
19. Is there anything else you’d like us to know about your club?