Welcome to the Tidewater Chapter of Virginia!

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Welcome to the newest chapter of USA fishbox!

Well we have a fresh start for everyone in the area. I don't want to divert from the main Virginia chapter too much but I think from here we can setup our own local meetings to allow people within the tidewater area to better connect.

I know we have a large group of people with many different taste. It is also a group clearly interested in furthering our abilities as aquarium keepers. This chapter will further allow us to expand on our hobby and share our ideas!

Let me just say now this is very welcome and I hope we can get something going that everyone will enjoy. I look forward to seeing more of everyone and hopefully expanding the chapter as time goes on!

For all the fish freaks in the Tidewater area you have a new home!

So I have been playing with more ideas since some ppl *cough*flipper*cough*con seems to think it shouldn't just be a discus...
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Any input would be awesome! lol I can sit here all day playing though...

Flippercon wrote:

zeashness wrote:

Word. I'm a Freelance Artist and going to school for Digital Photography and Media Arts, and I think the logo is fine too. Not too shabby at all for just playing around.

Sweet. I have been looking into buying a new digital camera for taking photos of my fish , I will have to pick your brain about that.

Anything that lets you have control over your shutter speed and iso should be fine (most DSLRs). Having the flash on will take decent pictures regardless of how fast your fish are moving. But if you want true to life (color wise) pictures, gotta have a fast shutter. Unless you have fish that barely move. :P

I personally use a Nikon D60 currently. Still learning how to use the dang thing though. I originally took the program just so I could learn how to take decent product photos, and hopefully learn to use Illustrator on a professional level.

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ooooo, I like the tetra one!!!!!

Hey I like discus. Just thought we could put a bunch of different ones up there you know from salt to fresh to old world to new world. Get em all in there without crowding the design.

zeashness wrote:

ooooo, I like the tetra one!!!!!

See what I mean......

I'm a minimalist at heart, so it's difficult for me to want to put more than one image with it. Wait I have an idea.... it may be a few minutes

What flippercon is trying to say is it has to have a electric blue jack dempsey in it haha. I do like all your designs tho very nice :)

Thank you they're all pretty much the same really lol but my new idea I was going to do isn't working at the present I'll do it later or I'll do it tomorrow probably tomorrow since I have work early

Jd. wrote:

What flippercon is trying to say is it has to have a electric blue jack dempsey in it haha. I do like all your designs tho very nice :)

It doesn't have to be an ebjd. Just a jd would work. Lol I don't care if a jd is on there or not. Having an all around logo would draw in the new . Think about it. If you are shopping for something you look at promo/display shelfs. Then you go in and explore the rest. First impressions do set in. By the way all the logos posted are great, I would have drawn some skeleton fish and called it a day.

I was also going to try one with custom letters just TAL but my free copy of Photoshop is done for lol so I can't make anymore until I find another good copy

ohh ohhh me me I can def help with that I will send a pm. : )

I worked late sorry about that , did not get around to chatting.

It's all good we can do it another time. I've been reading the faas website and I think I'm getting up to speed. I would still like to talk and figure stuff out with you and fishbox

Same here. My internet should be back on by next Wednesday night so I will be in the chat to discuss a few ideas that had come up.

dnphillips08 wrote:

It's all good we can do it another time. I've been reading the faas website and I think I'm getting up to speed. I would still like to talk and figure stuff out with you and fishbox

We can chat whenever. Im free until 1pm

Well i have work for a while today so maybe this weekend?

I guess Dan is going to be heading to my house today "not sure if the plan has changed" but as far as i know they have not and anyone that would like to come over feel free I know flippercon knows the way very well and strinkingthematch has been here as well ... so im not a serial killer hahah

Works for me/

Oh I guess I should have said pm me for my number or my address , you can ask flippercon as well im sure he would be glad to give you the info

Jd. wrote:

I guess Dan is going to be heading to my house today "not sure if the plan has changed" but as far as i know they have not and anyone that would like to come over feel free I know flippercon knows the way very well and strinkingthematch has been here as well ... so im not a serial killer hahah

I have no idea what this guy is talking about. I would bring my.45 just incase.....

I'm pretty sure we can get a decently sized group together, I have posted on other forums about starting a club and I have already found a few interested people. I'll be meeting with JD today and if anyone else cares to join your more than welcome. I am going to try and get some of the more admin things figured out tonight.

Admin things for what?

Well based off reading the faas.info website there are lots of things you have to have a constitution and a bunch of other crazy stuff. I'm no longer at work, so if anyone cares to chat I'm available.

Don't really need all that to be honest. It is simply a chapter of USA fishbox. To put it better it is just a group of people that belong to a larger club/organization. We gather when we want and where, the box is our everyday meeting grounds and a way to stay connected. If you started your own organization/club from scratch then you go through the whole setup process. For us right now the primary idea is to find a place to hold meetings and setup time frames for everything. Many of the chapters simply have board member that work out the fine print for meetings in other words they are the people most likely to make it to every meeting and therefore take care of the logistics of the whole thing.

This I agree with , but shouldn't there be a back up just in case someone gets deployed or hospitalized etc... Kinda like a vp to the pres. I'm just happy there is a thought of a local club and actual interest on the area. I mean we have the Chesapeake bay in our back yard. I was surprised to find out there wasn't one. I know there is a lot of military here so the constant change of people is a factor but I know there are long time locals who should of took it upon them selves to start something. Maybe the hobby is just exploding out here. I do have a few ideas about improvement but that can be brought up at a later time.

strikingthematch wrote:

Don't really need all that to be honest. It is simply a chapter of USA fishbox. To put it better it is just a group of people that belong to a larger club/organization. We gather when we want and where, the box is our everyday meeting grounds and a way to stay connected. If you started your own organization/club from scratch then you go through the whole setup process. For us right now the primary idea is to find a place to hold meetings and setup time frames for everything. Many of the chapters simply have board member that work out the fine print for meetings in other words they are the people most likely to make it to every meeting and therefore take care of the logistics of the whole thing.

It's very simple.


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