Woops sorry not %50 i must be sleeping lol but its a fair bit for sure:)

I can see Facebook sites taking over pretty quick it's only gonna take one in Calgery and a few in bc.

A Facebook site just isn't the same as a forum. For exposure of the company and their wares, sure. But for hobbyists, not even close. I am not privy to all the background workings of the forum but it is definitely a loss for the community whenever we lose a vendor.

Still the three of us here, but Tony has some stuff in life going on, and Christy just had her second little one, so she's tied up elsewhere for the most part. Both still manage items behind the scenes, but I just have more computer time. Doug has helped for years, but a recent events have pulled him away. Ryan, no idea. I think he's been abducted by aliens.
I had actually decided to pick you, Denny, as my replacement, but then you joined Dave and a conflict arose. Keener is part time on some forums, but he's too smart to take my job :)
As for the business side of things, while some are leaving, new ones are coming on board. It's always been that way. I have no idea what the rates are, I didn't know they went up, and I haven't heard any reasons for changes. We'll have to wait and see how things go. I know for Titus, this is simply a business, and if it fails to earn him a profit, I'd imagine he'd shut down or sell.

It's also harder to manage. Oceanic did that, but without frequent updates/management, the following drifts off. I haven't even thought "Oceanic" unless he gets mentioned on the board. To really get the most out of it, you need a social media director. Which will typically be the owner, after all the other stuff gets done in a day.

I also think its the stores fault, some of them were just waisting there membership fees, as some of them would never advertise anything or post pictures of orders. I do lots of group buys to non member stores and the onley reason is I cant get the pieces I want in town even after a few of us ask for stuff to be brought in. Can-reef has lots of potential it's just stores don't use it.

I figured they had some life things happening I know Christy use to be very active but I heard she had a little one too:)

There has been a decent spike in sponsorship fees which has led to a few sponsors dropping out, for concept I'm fighting with Dave to keep us here I do believe I can justify the use for canreef as a retailer but would help for sure if we knew why there was a rise, the pm myself and Dave got had no explanation.

I do hope this doesn't change canreef but its sad to see so many drop out in the same time frame, I know there will always be more sponsors but some of the ones we had were there for years.

Im gonna have to Start a petition called please don't take my canreef

With the way online shopping is taking over the market the need for forumn shopping isn't as important and information alone wont keep canreef going long term.

Im gonna have to Start a petition called please don't take my canreef


Lets start a poll

denny i think forum shopping is a big part of online shopping. there are groupbuys that come up for new vendors that may one day become sponsers if they can get the clientele, which brings income. (mad jelly/big show) these are two shops that i come to know from canreef.


haha i thought same

Some off these new stores were even nice enough to donate to marine aquaria, frag/swap

True but a quick google search found these vendors and sure they may become sponsors in the future but they were already members on canreef before and could have done so at anytime , I'm sure they have their reasons

I'm all for forumns trust me lol but from a business point of view the money going in has to bring a certain profit if it doesn't then it's time wasted and money.

Yes not all stores use the forumns to its potential and each vendor has their own reasons for joining up , believe me no business is going to flush money down the drain they have reasons for sponsoring .

Ill always be a canreef member I'm into the hobby both financially and emotionally and I'm in it to far to just duck out I treat this site like a full time job first thing in the morn and last thing at night I do lol would you believe I get sometimes 50 emails a day, I've seen some changes though and I look st the number of members now compared to when I joined.....not a whole lot more its always been in the eight thousand and I think we can do better, more members means more business for sponsors , more business means money well spent, lately there hasn't been a whole lot of new peeps active on the site and I think this has to do with some of the major stores dripping out let's face it the reason most of us found canreef was through either a lfs or respected member, if both of those are gone then so the member numbers drop.

Part of this is also online business don't have that face to face communication so referencing to a forumn doesn't happen :(

Looking for a new mod? I'm in..........

No bears allowed lol ;pppppp

Joking buddy you'd make a great mom;)

Darn auto correct I meant mod:twised:

Lol "momma bear"

Now if I could just get you to answer my text's & the occasional pm. :wink:

My wife's not a canreefer :lol:

I will ask him in a couple of weeks when I see him.. Y U NO CAN REEF RYAN?!

Ask who? Ryan or the alien that abducted him :lol:

Actually, there was more than one but the details aren't important at this point..

Re-text me lol with the renos coming to an end at the new shop I honestly haven't seen my phone in days lol can't wait to be back to my "normal " life :pp

I have a ton of emails pending like a ton lol I've bysted my phone 3 times this month like who goes through 3 phones lol even dropped one in my tank I'm considering not even getting another one now I'm scared lol:pp

Text me if you don't get a reply text me again lol I have short term memory I mean to text everyone back at lunch or offtimes but I get distracted easily........oh look a squirrel!!!

Always is.........wish they would come here & flatten some of the 4' weeds growing in my 2.5 acre field.

Dude, get one of these. Thank me later.

Get an iPhone with a LifeProof case, mines been to the bottom of my pool twice & dry as a popcorn fart. Also as a welder the grinding dust would distroy my phone in month but no long with LifeProof.

Just need to get that replacement power supply so I can fill the 300 :biggrin:

Who is the owner of the forum? Could someone shoot me his contact?

I am here, just not chatty. Been doing some camping and stuff away from a keyboard. You should try it sometime!

hmm.. I have three 5 gallon pales of chemicals coming in next week from BRS. My office receptionist will be receiving it most likely. I hope she doesn't call the Feds.. but then she's used to receiving random boxes marked, "LIVE ANIMALS" with my name on it so it might be OK. Stay tuned!

Can't believe it!!! My wife has banned me from using her Facebook account to join the Canreef group on Facebook. What up with that!

:lol::lol::lol::lol: banned again!! And I think this one will stick :twised:

I can't afford a third wife so I better tread lightly. :redface:

I don't see why the responsibility of paying the bills of the website should fall on the Vender Sponsors alone. We all use this site for our benefit/knowledge.

If keeping Canreef around means introducing a membership fee so be it.

Make it tiered and depending which tier you fall grants you permissions for the forum.

As an example. Prices are just pulled out of my arse. Same with the per month thing.. just an example.

$5/month Tier 1 - General browsing
$10/month Tier 2 - General browsing/Post a Build Thread/Browsing Marketplace
$15/month Tier 3 - Full Access. Post/Make Threads in Marketplace, etc.


If the site owner doesn't want to incorporate a Membership Fee that's fine, but maybe consider a Paypal/Fundit Donation link somewhere that is clearly visible. Some people may not donate at all and that's fine but I bet some people would donate monthly, even if it was only $5-10. It would be extra income to help offset costs and take some of the responsibility off the Vendors who choose to be on here and help keep their costs down.

We have that sort of system on my Gaming Clans forum and it works well.

Why is everyone talking about CanReef "not being around" or such. Is this just rumor from the coffee room (Lounge)? I haven't seen anyone with behind the scenes knowledge acknowledging any sort of lack of funds.

Chicken little sydrome.

:lol: I think so...

Denny sorta does have little chicken legs come to think of it.

A few main vendors pulling out is a good way to force Titus to lower the fees to encourage more vendors to join. Online vendors are more likely to pay the fees because their sales tend to spread over a larger area. LFS outside of BC and AB would probably never see the $1600 per year vendor fee ever come back to them because the main member base is BC and AB. However, we've all been seeing more Ontario activity in the last couple years, so this is great! :) I believe Ontario members are mainly on RC where I think the vendor fees are around $3000 per year. If we can continue to get more Ontario activity at CanReef there could be a huge surge of Ontario vendors.

which is good we need access to some of the candy out there. i think it's the vanacker trickle down effect.

This would be great because I'm mad jelly of all the nice stuff they got out there.

Oh hello there! In the past month I've notice quite a few of us moving over to canreef! Soo let keep up the good work!

~Tony

Indeed Tony and we are all happy to have you and the other new vendors aboard.

Just wish Reef Wholesale sold to the public as they have some KILLER stuff too.

Speaking of KILLER.........wish my pain killers would kick in so I could actually walk today.

I could send him a decent leg workout?