Local Club Information

[John N.]

I would like to create a sticky for the local club section that contains information regarding..local and regional clubs.

Feel free to post your club information (or others) to this thread. Please use the template below.

Club/Organization Name
General information about the Club
Club Website (if available)
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This is not limited to US clubs, but open internationally as well. The idea here is to promote these clubs as best we can. They will be organized a little better as more clubs are posted to this thread.

-John N.

[John N.]

I'll start off with an example

Club/Organization Name
San Francisco Bay Area Aquatic Plant Society

General information about the Club
San Francisco Bay Area Aquatic Plant Society (SFBAAPS) is a regional community of planted aquarium enthusiasts living in and around the greater San Francisco Bay Area. We strive to enrich our members’ aquatic gardening experience while advancing our hobby. To meet these goals, sfbaaps facilitates regular events which include open houses, speaker presentations, and plant swaps. We invite you to share in our excitement for aquatic gardening.

Club Website (if available)
www.sfbaaps.org

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-John N.

[John N.]

Club/Organization Name
Malayasian Aquascaping Club (MAC)

General information about the Club
The MAC club is dedicated to the creation of beautiful planted tanks and everything needed to maintain one including its inhabitants. Members meet together to trade plants, participate in local aquascaping competitions such as the Mac Nano Competition, and they come together to partipate in aquascaping and planted aquarium workshops.

Club Website
www.my-mac.net

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-John N.

[John N.]

Club/Organization Name
South California Aquatic Plant Enthusiasts (SCAPE)

General information about the Club
SCAPE is a regional club that extends as far north as the Los Angeles Area to as far south as San Diego. They hold regular club meetings where they hold plant swaps, planted aquarium presentations, and the occasional mini aquascape competitition. SCAPE is a club that is forever growing and working to bring together So.Cal Aquascapers.

Club Website
www.socalaquascapers.com

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-John N.

[Jdinh04]

Club/Organization Name
Michigan Aquatic Plant Group (MiAPG)

General information about the Club
MiAPG also known as the Michigan Aquatic Plant Group, is a group of hobbyists that share common interests in the Planted Aquarium hobby. In our group, each unique hobbyist, ranging from those just starting out, to seasoned professionals and everyone in between will be able to gather and share information with one another in regards to the Planted Aquarium hobby. We feel that keeping Planted Aquaria is a great addition to the home, but also the aquatic plants serve as a home and a comfort for the inhabitants of the Planted Aquarium. We encourage anyone who has any interest to get involved by registering on our discussion forums to learn more about the Planted Aquarium hobby. Don't worry, we are a nice and friendly community, and provide a welcoming atmosphere!

Club Website
Web site: Michigan Aquatic Plant Group | A Planted Aquarium Group!

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[hooha]

Club/Organization Name
Pittsburgh Area Planted Aquarium Society (PAPAS)

General information about the Club
PAPAS is the Pittsburgh Area Planted Aquarium Society


We strive to:

• provide a forum of fellowship for the sharing of our common interest in aquatic gardening.
• provide support and guidance to hobbyists of all skill levels through the free exchange of information, experience, and ideas.
• promote the cultivation of aquatic plants for the pleasure of their scientific study; to improve understanding of growing techniques and to maintain a diversity of aquatic plants available to the hobby.
• promote aquatic plants as elements of design in the art of aquascaping; to foster aquascaping as self expression and the pursuit of art for art's sake.
• represent aquatic gardening in the Pittsburgh community; to encourage public interest and involvement in the hobby.

PAPAS and its members are dedicated to all forms of planted aquariums.

Club Website
www.homeofpapas.org

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[aferreir]

Club/Organization Name
Club Rosarino de Acuariofilia - Argentina (Spanish)

General information about the Club
- We tend to the development and diffusion of the ichthyology and aquarium maintenance.
- To inform, investigate and protect for all the aquatic ecosystems of Argentina and especially of the Paraná river;
- Establishing an environment of friendship in which the associates find the most suitable conditions to develop aquarium activities in all their forms;
- Promoting the habits of study, work and investigation, to whose effects resources will be utilized such as courses, chats, seminars, conferences, organization of library, database and any another lawful middle;
- To promote and to organize expositions, conferences, contests and any another legal act that consider purpose the best knowledge of the diverse forms in which the aquatic life is declared
- Be compromised in every lawful activity in defense of the natural courses of water, the aquatic life every form protection and the diffusion of the dangers caused by the contamination.

Club Website
CRoA - Club Rosarino de Acuariofilia

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[Mgamer20o0]

Club/Organization Name
LAFishFanatics
General information about the Club
LAFF meets on the last Sunday afternoon of the month, usually in the San Fernando Valley area. Sometimes we meet in member's homes to see their aquariums or at various fishy places around town.
Club Website
Google groups LAFF

[Mgamer20o0]

Club/Organization Name
California's Organization of Aquatic Tropicals
General information about the Club
Coast meets monthly on the first sunday of the month. Its a general fish club thats been know to fly in speakers several times a year. They cover the basic fish keeping to the most advanced breeding. A few note worthy speakers coast has brought in this year alone:
Dr. Timothy A. Hovanec
Ted Judy
Dr. David Reznick
Dan Woodland
Sabrina Fullhart

Club Website
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