No - you do not need to have an ARC membership to attend the meetings. There are events, raffles, power buys, and other benefits of membership, but anyone is free to come to the meetings!
We'll be having our big annual frag swap next month. We're flying in a very well known person in the aquarium industry (it's a surprise right now), and will have demonstrations on fragging corals of all kinds. It's a big event, and clubs from several states will be invited - we usually see between 150 and 250 people there. Members can get couple LE frags and non-members can get a couple frags of different corals - all for free. If you can make it, I suggest you come - there will be a lot going on!
Otherwise, members in the club trade / buy / sell corals to each other at every meeting.
austinh;598987 wrote: thats awesome, whats the date of this frag swap, and location, i will try to get together with a few of the people here in NC and see if they want to take the road trip with me