C. Clubs and Associations
C. Club and Association Home Pages. Now the F.A.A.S., Federation of American Aquarium Societies site is the first place to look for an aquarium club directory, registers of US and international aquarium societies and local clubs, with relevant contact addresses and webpages. You might surf in there to check that the information for your own group is complete and currently accurate.
Nowadays it looks as though virtually all the local aquarium clubs and associations are maintaining websites. Find them by googling the name of the group you're hunting for.
The short list of some club and association websites I mention here all contain archived *articles and information of more than local or passing once-current interest. In the early days of the Internet, these were more generously shared with non-members than they became, but recently clubs and associations are putting their back issue newsletters s on-line: that's a good development!.
American Cichlid Association, the largest specialized aquarium society, maintains a handsome website and publishes the bi-monthly Buntbarsche Bulletin (relax! it's in English): you can see covers and lists of contents; there's a *members' forum and members' blogs too.
Anabantoid Association of Great Britain archives a good number of articles on labyrith fishes, in the aquarium and in the wild.
Boston Aquarium Society, the longest continuously-running aquarium society in the world (since 1916), combines class (Karen Randall is the BAS historian) with availability: excellent FAQs, though archived articles from their quarterly The Daphnian have been withdrawn from the site.
Calgary Aquarium Society publishes The Calquarium, eleven times a year; with an index and a generous selection of articles— dozens— posted at the site.
Durham Region Aquarium Society covers Ontario east of Toronto; their website archives many articles from their newsletter, Tank Talk.
Gold Coast Aquarium Society of South Florida. They archive their newsletter The Tropical Fish Tribune, with articles by the likes of Karen Randall, Chuck Davis, Dr Paul Loiselle.
Greater Cincinnati Killifish Assn. Not just of interest to killifanatics, if you'll scan the *Fishroom Library of knowledgable articles from the GCKA Newletter, covering breeding notes, conservation issues, profiles of killi species, foods and feeding, reported by Donna M. Recktenwalt. There are outstanding, periodically updated *links too.
Greater City Aquarium Society of Queens, New York, has now put on-line all the 2011 issues of their award-winning monthly *Modern Aquarium, which truly ranks as a magazine rather than simply a club newsletter.
Greater Seattle Aquarium Society archives a rich hoard of articles from their bulletin Northwest Aquaria.
Hamilton & District Aquarium Society has archived an article from every issue of their monthly bulletin since November 1998. Some quite unusual species are described.
Honolulu Aquarium Society archives its newsletters and has a small library of good articles.
Jersey Shore Aquarium Society has archived its newsletter, Shoreline since April 2009: each issue has an article.
North Jersey Aquarium Society archives some articles.
Minnesota Aquarium Society (founded 1931) Their on-line Aquazine has dozens of articles, and the Society is *actively archiving back issues on-line.
Missouri Aquarium Society's site archives articles from their newsletter, Darter.
New Hampshire Aquarium Society's site archives articles written by members.
Oklahoma Aquarium Association has a generous sampling of archived articles.
San Francisco Bay Area Aquatic Plant Society maintains a picture gallery of members' planted aquaria, a focused selection of *links and an *algae gallery of closeups!
Tampa Bay Aquarium Society's website posts links to pdf documents of back issues of their newsletter The Filter, back to December 2008; its articles include reprints of articles from other aquarium societies, some of which you won't locate anywhere else.
