Meetings
The Sacramento Aquarium Society meets at 3:00 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.
Socializing times are between 1:45 and 3:00 pm. Auction check in is between 1:30 and 3:00 pm. No auction Items will be checked in after 3:00 pm. Click here for Auction Rules.
The Sacramento Aquarium Society has two Mega Auctions. Mega Auctions begins at 3:00 pm. Check-in for Mega Auction items begins at 1:30 pm and ends at 3:00 pm. This is a big fund raiser for the Society that is open to the public. Please see the Auction Rules for more detail.
Sacramento Aquarium Society (SAS) Mega Auctions are free to attend and participate in. You do not need to be a member of the SAS to sell or purchase items at the auctions.
Meeting Location
Round Table Pizza
9500 Greenback Lane
Folsom, CA
(916)
989-1133
NOTE: Round Table Pizza faces Madison Ave.
2024 Meeting and Event Schedule
01/06 - Sai Krishna Reddi Karri
02/03 - Zeb Hogan - "Chasing Giants: From Fish Keeping in Thailand to the Discovery of the World's Largest Freshwater Fish"
03/02 - Mega Auction - Auction Rules
04/06 - Dr. Ron Coleman - "Convict Cichlids"
05/04 - Lowell Dunnaway - "TBA"
06/01 - Fin-Dig Vendor Presentations
06/22 - 06/23 - FIN-DIG
07/06 - No Meeting
08/03 - Bryan Chin - "Show Guppies"
09/07 - Caroline Estes
09/22 - Swap Meet
10/05 - Anthony I. Mazeroll, Ph.D. - "Amazon Research Center for Ornamental Fishes"
11/02 - Mega Auction - Auction Rules, Vote for New Board
12/07 - Jonathan Butkus - "From Skectch to Scape"
^ Tenative
2023 Meeting Schedule
01/07* 
Travis Gillmore - "TBA"
02/04 Becca Goldring - "Dabbling in Dicrossus"
03/04 Kevin Thurston - "Breeding Synodontis multipunctatus with Emphasis on Rearing the Fry"
04/01 Mega Auction - Auction Rules
05/06 Josh Cunningham - "Fish Hobby or Business?"
06/03 - 4 FIN-DIG, Lions Gate Hotel, McClellan Park
07/08 Ryan Chan - "Avatar Aquatics - Breeding the Amano Shrimp"
08/05 Alex Martin - "Vallisneria (Hydrocharitaceae): Describing a new species, resurrecting old names, identifying cultivated plants, and presenting evidence of hybridization"
09/02 Andreas Tanke
10/07 Mega Auction - Auction Rules
11/04 James Robinson - "Insight on keeping Doradidae"
12/02 Regina Spotti - "Rasboras & Barbs My Way"
* Meeting date moved because the normal date falls on a holiday.
^ Tenative
2024 Meeting Schedule
03/02 Dr. Ron Coleman - "Convict Cichlids"
09/07 Caroline Estes - "History of Women in the Aquarium Hobby"
Past Monthly Meetings and Speakers
2022 Meeting Schedule
01/08 Bryson Zheng - "Medaka - the Japanese ricefish (Oryzias latipes)"
02/05 Christine Neumeyer & Jamie Smith FWE - "A Journey Downriver, From the Amazon to Your Aquarium"
03/05 Dr. João Pedro (JP) Fontenelle - "The diversity of the Neotropical Freshwater Stingrays (Potamotrygoninae): Evolutionary perspectives and Aquarism"
04/02 Julie Tran - "About Flowerhorn Cichlids (Hybrid Cichlasoma)"
05/07 Mega Auction - Auction Rules
06/04 Timothy Graham Smith - "Freshwater Snails: Sinners and Saints"
07/02 Dick Au - "Breeding Discus"
08/06 Dr. Chris Martin - "The most wonderfully playful fishes named after puppies: research, fieldwork, and museum collections" SPEAKER CANCELED
09/03 Dr. Jack Craig - "Electric Knifefish in the Home Aquarium: How to Keep Some of the Hobby's Most Elusive Oddballs."
10/01 Mega Auction - Auction Rules
11/05 Barbie Fiorentino - "Tips and Tricks for Plumbing"
12/03 Rich Bireley - "Jack, Not Master"
2021 Meeting Schedule
01/02 Video Meeting: Dr. Tom Barr - "Aquarium Plants"
02/06 Video Meeting: Robert Shields - "Into the llanos of Colombia in Search of the "W" Pike"
03/06 Video Meeting: Chris Carpenter - "Shell Dwellers of Lake Tanganyika"
04/03 Video Meeting: Lawrence Kent - "Seeking Friends and Holy Grail Fish: Stories from Mauritania and Nigeria"
05/01 Video Meeting: Richard Nguyen - "The Fancy Livebearer Hobby Where I Am At"
06/05 Video Meeting: Andy Piorkowski - "Goodeids: History, Husbandry & More"
07/03 Ryan Enright - "An Introduction To Keeping Killifish"
08/07 Standard Monthly Auction
09/04 Mike Tuccinardi - "Building a Biotope"
10/02 Swap Meet
11/06 Anthony I. Mazeroll, Ph.D. - Conservation of fishes in Peru, and what you can do as a hobbyist"
12/04 Eric Bodrock - "Cory Breeding Made Easy! "
2020 Meeting Schedule
1/4 Charlie Mueller - "Experiences and Breeding of Whiptail Catfish"
2/1 Kids Night & Share Your Tanks and Fish
3/7 Dr. Eric Thomas - "Techniques for Tank Setup and Fry Care when Breeding Plecos and Corys"
4/4 Mega Auction - CANCELED due to COVID-19, Tentatively Moved to May
5/2 Mega Auction - CANCELED due to COVID-19
6/6 Video Meeting: Larry Shankle - "Online Fish Room Tour/Q&A"
7/11 Video Meeting: Jonathan Wardrip - Virtual Fish Room Tour
7/16 - 19 ACA CONVENTION - CANCELED
8/1 Video Meeting: Dr. Ron Coleman - Virtual Tour of his Lab at CSU - Sacramento (Sac State)
9/5 Video Meeting: Rich Bireley - "Fish House Tour"
10/3 Video Meeting : Pam Chin - "Swimming With Cichlids - Lake Tanganyika - Zambia"
11/7 Video Meeting : Dr. Brendan Ebner - "Freshwater Gobies"
12/5 Video Meeting: Jeremy Basch - "The Wonderful World of Woodcats"
2019 Meeting Schedule
1/5 Phil Farrell - "Collecting in the Southern USA"
2/2 Gary Hater - "Fundamentals of Breeding Goldfish & Raising Fry"
3/2 Anthony I. Mazeroll, Ph.D. - "The Death of the Amazon"
4/6 Mega Auction
5/4 Mark Duffill - "Loaches are for Life not just for Snails"
6/1 Yuzo Yanagitsuru - "Acid-Tolerant Fishes"
7/6 Dean Tweeddale - "The In’s and Out’s of Collecting Fish in the Peruvian Jungles"
8/3 Randy Carey - "Breeding the Scatterers (tetras, barbs & danios)"
9/7 Joe Cutler- "Unlocking Secrets of Electrocommunication in Fishes"
10/5 Mega Auction
11/2 SPECIAL MARS/SAS Joint Program: Bob Fenner - "Coral Compatibility: Reducing Captive Negative Interactions Between Cnidarians"
12/7 Jimmy Nguyen - "Fish in Focus"
2018 Meeting Schedule
1/6 Stephen Paturel - Polypterus
2/3 Stephan Tanner - Filtration
3/3 Erik Lucas - Shrimp Keeping: An Overview Of The Hobby And Guide To Successful Shrimp Tanks
4/7 Mega Auction
5/5 Dr. Jenessa Gjeltema - "Fish Medicine"
6/2 Pam Chin - "Swimming with Cichlids - Lake Tanganyika"
7/7 Mark Denaro - "Into the labyrinth"
8/4 Adam Fuller - "Aquaculture: Fishkeeping on the Large Scale"
9/1 "Kid's night" and "Share your own tank/fish"
10/6 Mega Auction
11/3 Gary Lange - Rainbow Fish
12/1 Dr. Andrew Whitehead - "Evolutionary Transitions Between Marine and Freshwater Environments in Fish"
2017 Meeting Schedule
1/7 Dr. Jason Baumsteiger - "A genetic exploration of often overlooked native CA/NV freshwater fishes"
2/4 Rusty Wessel - "Fishes of The Maya"
3/4 Sumer Tiwari - "Indian Native Fish and collection trip to India"
4/1 Mega Auction
5/6 Bart Laurens - Aquascaping (exact title TBA)
6/3 Birger Kamprath - "Squeakers and their Close Relatives"
7/1 Justin He (Univ. of the Pacific): "Analysis of Proteins in Corydoras Venom" McKenzie Bell (Sacramento State Univ.): "The Cichlid Fry Project,"
Plus
"Expert Panel" for All-things-aquarium Q&A - Dr. Ron Coleman (Sac. State U.), Ryan Morris (Lee's Feed & Western Wear) and Ben Si (SAS VP).
8/5 Cory McElroy - "Freshwater Puffer Fish... Yes Actual Freshwater"
9/2 Mega Auction - (moved up to schedule Oct. speaker)
10/7 Willem Heijns - "Heroine cichlids, an addiction?"
11/4 Jim Cumming - "The Cichlids of Madagasca - A Land in Crisis"
12/2 Matthew Schauer - "K.I.S.S. Corys"
2016 Meeting Schedule
1/2 Dr. Gil Rosenthal
2/6 Gianne Souza - "The Excellent Adventures of Linebreeding Show Bettas"
3/5 Mega Auction
4/2 Dr. Nathan Lujan - "Loricarids in Brazil"
5/7 Ingo Seidel
6/4 Fishy Trivia
7/2 Brian Downing- "Virtual Tour of Public Aquariums"
8/6 Dr. Eric Thomas - “Riddle me this: When is a species not a species?"
9/3 Michael Barber - Owner of Go Wild Peru
10/1 Mega Auction
11/5 Chuck Rambo - "Poor Man's Collecting Trip"
12/3 Pam Chin - "Amazon River Trip"
2015 Meeting Schedule
1/4 (SUNDAY at 4:00 pm) - Expert Panel
2/7 Jim Ellenberger - "Bloopers and Blunders, or my membership qualifications for joining the Dead Fish Society"
3/7 Rick Borstein - "Collecting Goodeids in Mexico and the Goodeid Working Group Conferences"
4/4 Mega Auction
5/2 Ted Judy - "Going Gabon"
6/6 Dr. Tom Barr - "Aquatic Plant Horticulture"
*7/18 Steve Lundblad -"New Arrivals in the Tropical Fish
Hobby"
8/1 Chuck Rambo - The History of Cichlids in the Hobby
9/5 Rich Bireley - "The Bireley Fish House, a Virtual Tour"
10/3 Mega Auction
11/7 Dr. Ron Coleman - "Research Update"
12/5 Dr. Ron Harlan - "Killifish: Amazing, Beautiful, and Attainable"
* Date moved due to conflict with holiday.
2014 Meeting Schedule
1/4 David Huie - "My Pond Experiments"
2/1 Sarah Longo - "Seahorses"
3/1 Matt McGee - "A New View on Lake Victoria"
4/5 Mega Auction
5/3 Dr. David Reznick
6/7 Lawrence Kent - "Cichlids in East Africa: Going Beyond the Big Three Rift Lakes"
7/5 RIchard Griffiths - "Swordtails and Platies - Wild to Wilder"
8/2 Gary Lange - "Extraordinary New Rainbowfish From Papua"
9/6 Lee Newman - "Cenotes"
10/4 Mega Auction
11/1 Chuck Rambo - "Rift Lakes - Comparing the Lakes and the Cichlids of each Lake"
12/6 Pam Chin - "Experiences in Malawi"
2013 Meeting Schedule
1/5 Ivan and Alena Kuchta - "HOBBY OUT OF HANDS!"
2/2 Steve Lundblad - "Bringing the Unique to Your Aquarium"
3/2 Rich Bireley - "Introduction to Catfish"
4/6 Mega Auction
5/4 Anthony Tu - "Keeping exotic freshwater Crabs"
6/1 Dr. Ron Coleman - "Cichlid Aggression"
7/6 Sam Borstein - "Aquarium Husbandry of Smaller Central American Cichlids"
8/3 Joe Cutler - "Collecting Cameroon's Crater Coptodon
Cichlids"
9/7 Matt McGee - "Go with the flow: Adventures with River Tanks"
10/5 Mega Auction
11/2 Dr. Paul Loiselle - "Cichlids of Madagascar"
12/7 David Fraguglia - "Malawi Underwater"
2012 Meeting Schedule
1/7 Game Show - "Win it or Swim It" hosted by Martha Volkoff
2/4 UC Davis' Dr. Peter Wainwright - "The Incredible DIversity of Fish Feeding Mechanisms on Coral Reefs"
3/3 Tom Barr - "The great divide: CO2 gas or not?"
4/7 Mega Auction
5/5 Matthew McGee - "Success with Shrimp"
6/2 Chuck Rambo - "Introduction to Carnivorous Plants"
7/7 The Members Speak!
8/4 Bob Fenner - "The Three Sets of Factors That Determine Livestock Health"
9/1 Joe Middleton - "Cichlid Adventures in Guatemala"
10/6 Mega Auction
11/3 Ted Judy - "The Genus Pelvicachromis - Old and New"
12/1 Anthony Inder Mazeroll, Ph.D - "The Freshwater Fishes of Cambodia"
2011 Meeting Schedule
1/1 TBA
2/5 Thuan Nguyen - "West African Killies of the 'Roloffia' Group"
3/5 Jim Forshey - "Travels and Fish Collecting in the Amazon"
4/2 Mega Auction
5/7 Pam Chin - "Runnin On A Dream - Malawi & Tanganyika Cichlid Safari"
6/4 Phil Farrell - "Travelling and Collecting as a Hobbyist"
7/2 Jeremy Bolanos - "Bettas"
8/6 Charles Pratt - "Guppies"
9/3 Anthony Tu - "The Taxonomic and Evolution of Tylomelania - aka Rabbit Snails"
10/1 Mega Auction
11/5 Gary Lange - "Rainbows"
12/3 Chris Clevers - "Fish Nutrition"
2010 Meeting Schedule
1/2 Karen Manly - "Thailand Dive Trip Video"
2/6 Sam Borstein - "The Path to Gandoca"
3/6 Mega Auction
4/3 Expert Panel Q & A
5/1 Chuck Rambo - "Dwarf Cichlids"
6/5 Fish Room Tour
7/3 Kevin Kelley - "Economics of an Aquarium Society" and "First Annual SAS Fuzzy Fish Contest"
8/7 Anthony Tu - "Keeping the Aquarium Hobby Alive"
9/4 John Boylan - "Panamanian Expedition 2009"
10/2 Mega Auction
11/6 Brian Perkins - "Collecting with the Collectors in Southern Peru. An overview of some recent expeditions and discoveries."
12/4 Chris Martin - "Explosive diversification in fishes: field research on Malawi cichlids, Cameroon crater lake cichlids, and Caribbean pupfishes"
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
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
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"