Club Meetings
Jun 04, 2008
Club Meeting
We'll have a presentation, a Q and A session of course our usual mini-auction of plants and fish.
Jul 02, 2008
No Scheduled Event
There will be no meeting in July.
Aug 06, 2008
No Scheduled Event
There will be no meeting in August.
Club meetings are held in the new Marilyn Blusson Learning Centre. We meet at 7:15pm sharp.
Calendar of Events
Newsletter
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Welcome to the VAHC
The VAHC is dedicated to encouraging the aquarium hobby in our local area. We meet monthly to discuss aquarium related topics and share our collective experiences. If you have any questions about the club, send us an email at webmaster@fishopolis.com
Recent Web News
Here are a few links to some recent aquarium related web articles:
Ravenous jumbo squid take to California
NewScientist.com: - Jul 28, 2008
Giant squid has largest eye ever seen
CBC.com: - Apr 30, 2008
$63 million to protect Asia's 'Coral Triangle' - Fishing using dynamite has destroyed reefs across special ecosystem
MSNBC.com: - Apr 30, 2008
Sea lions removed in bid to save salmon - Alternative was to put them down since they're feeding on threatened fish
MSNBC.com: - Apr 28, 2008
Up Close With a Colossal Squid - Scientists finally get a chance to examine the immense, mysterious creature hauled ashore a year ago.
Newsweek.com: - Apr 28, 2008
Balding penguin's wetsuit lets him swim again - Pierre's bare tush had kept him shivering on the sidelines as peers played
MSNBC.com: - Apr 25, 2008
Eastern Arctic bowhead whales not threatened after all, government says
CBC.com: - Apr 16, 2008
Coral flourishing at Bikini Atoll atomic test site - Huge reefs inside crater, but also some extinctions and a caveat on climate
MSNBC.com: - Apr 15, 2008
One day's haul of beach trash: 6 million pounds - Annual snapshot finds 390 pounds per mile along U.S. shorelines
MSNBC.com: - Apr 15, 2008
Japan rebuilds reefs — with eye on China - 50,000 coral fragments are being grown to protect remote outcroppings
MSNBC.com: - Apr 10, 2008
Seawater holds clues to asteroid impacts - New study focuses on chemistry of ancient ocean-floor sediments
MSNBC.com: - Apr 10, 2008
Whale habitat off Alaska could open to drilling - Activists concerned about impact on right whales and Bristol Bay salmon
MSNBC.com: - Apr 09, 2008
Scientists plunge deep into sex lives of octopuses
CBC.com: - Apr 02, 2008
Scientists eye squid beaks for artificial limbs - Material may work for a prosthesis that needs to be stiff and elastic
MSNBC.com: - Mar 27, 2008
Photo Gallery
Our club members have some amazing aquariums. Check out our photo gallery for a peek at some of them.
