tank of the month

[titus]

Hello,

Good comments. But one thing at a time. Especially when we are all underfunded volunteers. There has been a lot of stuff going on behind the scenes. Lately with the FTOTM Committee, we have been discussing a lot. And I am still debugging from occasional flip flop coming up from time to time since the server migration. Some times we have to wonder if we come up with something, would it work. This is as in would the members on this board be willing to participate in it. For example, there has been a lot of activity with the FTOTM thread that Danny started with great support from the member base. But we are seeing the photos trickly in slowly. Maybe it is still early and people are cleaning up their tanks for the shots.

I'd also like to add to Aussiefishy's comments. We need to get the retailers to support us as well. So far Reef Crew is the only retailer generous enough to put up a banner ad.

Probably it is a Canadian thing. But when we moved onto a new server (in other words more costs), and e-mailed the various vendors who had in the past benefited from using this board's Vendor Announcement Forum or referrals to sponsor us, only 2 have replied saying they will look into it.

There has also been ... what maybe 2 startups e-mailed me saying they want to sponsor the board. One just told me that he is still working on his site. I don't know what happened to the other one. But every time when it comes down to actioning on sponsoring the board, it seems like most vendors bail out.

Now it is not like if there are no sponsors I am going to shut the board down or anything but sometimes it makes me wonder what is going on on this side of the border.

In the end, all in all, we are happy with the progress of this board. It has come a long way and has always given us a place to hang out.

Titus