Come Join the Fun at the San Diego Tropical Fish Society!

Welcome to the internet home of the San Diego Tropical Fish Society (SDTFS), the oldest and most active fish and aquarium club in San Diego. We have monthly meetings with interesting programs and speakers, mini-auctions, bowl shows, and a raffle with lots of great prizes.  In addition, we have an annual show, large semi-annual auctions of fish, plants, and equipment, and monthly field trips.  We have club members interested in discus, guppies, bettas, angelfish, koi, African cichlids, goldfish, aquatic plants, and all aspects of freshwater and marine fish keeping.

The objectives of the SDTFS are to bring together a congenial group of people mutually interested in tropical and exotic fishes and other forms of aquatic life, and to promote interest in, further the study of, and encourage the presentation and preservation of aquatic life. We'd love to have you join us!

Up Coming Events

March 9, 2008 – Monthly meeting. As usual there will be an auction. Sellers should arrive at 6:00 p.m. The auction will start at 6:30 and the program will start at 7:00 p.m. Chris Turk will speak on Fish Nutrition. Chris Turk is President of H20 foods, a leading supplier of frozen food for tropical and marine fish. 

This is the month for our bowl show to be Guppies and Old World Cichlids. Old World Cichlids will still be shown, but we are expanding the guppy show to many more than the normal number of entries and will have several classes. You can view a flyer with more information here 

March 29, 2008 - (This is a Saturday) Field trip to the Borrego Desert visitors center to view pupfish in their ponds, and wildflowers. This should be just about the peak of the wildflower season and this is already an exceptional year for desert flowers. 

We will meet at the Murray Drive Park and Ride for car pooling, which is on Murray Drive right next to the Red Lobster parking lot just off Hwy 8 at Grossmont Center. It is right next to the freeway and across Murray Drive from the Walmart. Meet there before 10:00 a.m. and we will leave there at 10:00 a.m. We will drive through Ramona and Julian and have a picnic at the Visitor's Center in Borrego Springs. Bring your own food and drink for the picnic. Nothing will be supplied. Be sure and bring sunglasses, hats and plenty of water.

April 13, 2008 – Auction

May 11, 2008 - Anthony Inder Mazeroll, Ph.D., Collecting fish in Columbia.

November  2008 – Annual Show,  Judging of Fish Grow Out Contest and small tank competition.

November 2008 – Auction

December  14, 2008 - Potluck,  Single people 1 hot item, If 2 people, one hot and one cold. Awards/ Elections