Sacramento Aquarium Society

Bringing Aquarium Hobbyists of the Greater Sacramento Valley Together Since 1952

Meetings

The Sacramento Aquarium Society meets at 7 PM on the first Saturday of each month. Meetings typically include a guest speaker, bowl show, raffle, attendance prize, and an auction which includes fish, aquatic plants, and aquarium supplies. Many of the auction  items go for less than wholesale prices.

Meeting Location

Round Table Pizza
9500 Greenback Lane
Folsom, CA
(916) 989-1133

NOTE: Round Table Pizza faces Madison Ave.

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2010 Meeting Schedule

1/2 Karen Manly - "Thailand Dive Trip Video"
2/6 Sam Borstein - "The Path to Gandoca"
3/6 Mega Auction - Rules
4/3 Expert Panel Q & A
5/1 TBA
6/5 TBA
7/3 TBA
8/7 TBA
9/4 Mega Auction - Rules
10/2 TBA
11/6 TBA
12/4 TBA

2009 Meeting Schedule

1/3 Pam Chin - "Care and Breeding of Lake Malawi Cichlids"
2/7 Rich Bireley - "Tanganyikans for Twenties"
3/7 Ron Coleman - "Costa Rican Cichlids"
4/4 Byron Chin & Joanna Heiple - "Captivating Callichthyids"
5/2 Jim Forshey - "Fish Collecting in the Amazon"
6/6 Dr. Tim Hovanec - "Aquarium Filtration and Water Quality"
7/11 Chuck Rambo - "Poor Man's Collecting Trip, 2009 - South Florida"
8/1 Lee Newman - "Aquarium Photography, The Tools, Techniques and the Art"
9/19 Mega Auction - Rules
10/3 Dick Au - "Asian Fascinations With Ornamental Fishes"
11/7 Ron Coleman - "Parental Care in Fishes"
12/5 Peter Unmack - "Rainbowfishes"

2008 Meeting Schedule

1/5 Jim Ellenberger -  "Setting Up a New Fish Room"
2/2 Kevin Powell -  "Fish With A Job"
3/1 Eric Rasmussen - "Last Chance to See..."
4/5 Jeremy Bolanos - "Successfully Breeding Betta splendens"
5/3 Ryan Morris - "Saltwater "
6/7 Mega Auction - Rules
7/5 Martha Volkoff - "A Killifish Primer: Ancient History to Modern Husbandry"
8/2 Chuck Rambo - "The History of Keeping Aquatic Organisms in Glass Containers"
9/6 Ted Judy - "The Cichlids of West African Crater Lakes"
10/4 Dick Au - "An Introduction to Critical Success Factors for the Selection, Keeping and Breeding of Discus"
11/1 Tom Barr - "Aquascaping for Freshwater Aquariums"
12/6 Pam Chin - "Malawi, the Lake & the Cichlids"

2007 Meeting Schedule

1/6 Phil Farrell - "Collecting Saltwater Fishes in the Caribbean"
2/3 Mark Binkley - "Native Fishes"
3/3 Art North - "The Latest and Greatest on Freshwater Puffers"
4/7 Kent Webster - "Collecting in New Guinea"
5/5 Swap Meet and Mega Auction
6/2 Sabrina Fullhart - "Freshwater Shrimp Species"
7/19 - 7/22 American Cichlid Association Convention 2007 - Sacramento Arden Hilton
8/4 "ACA Convention Wrap Up"
9/1 Jim Herman - "A Hobbyist's Tour of Peninsular Malaysia"
10/6 Tom Barr - "Aquarium Plants"
11/3 Sam Bacchini - "Polypterus"
12/1 Tony Griffitts - "Water Quality and Chemistry"

2006 Meeting Schedule

1/7 Pam Chin - "Lake Malawi Safari in October 2005"
2/3 Jim Forshey - "Travels and Fish Collecting in the Amazon"
3/3 Rich Bireley - "Breeding Challenging Tanganyikan Cichlids"
4/1 Vin Kutty - "Collecting Fishes in Bolivia"
5/6 Mega Auction
6/3 Eric Rassmussen - "Goodeids"
7/1 Dennis Lee - "Color Genetics in Domestic Betta splendens"
8/5 Norm Edelen - "Leaf Fishes"
9/2 Rahul Kumar - "Mouthbrooding Betta sp."
10/7 Mega Auction
11/4 Steve Lundblad - "Fish Economics"
12/2 Shaun Winterton - "Australian Aquatic Plants"