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December 2019
Gpas Holiday Party
This is a great time to get together and talk with other like-minded people. The month of December is our Holiday party in place of our normal club meeting. This will be a potluck event but the club will be supplying turkey and ham! This is also a white elephant event. The rule is to bring something you would want and to spend under $10 on it. We have games and activities planned. The party will be held at Kim…
Find out more »December Board Meeting
Board meeting is being held at same Place as the holiday party.
Find out more »January 2020
Ken Edwards – African Cichlids
Ken Edwards is a hobbyist and fish enthusiast. He started keeping fish at the age of ten and developed a passion for African Cichlids while serving in the United States Marine Corp. Ken has actively kept African Cichlids for 30+ years. Ken is currently sharing his passion of the fish-keeping hobby with others through his participation in the Greater Portland Aquarium Society. He has a growing community of followers to his and his wife’s YouTube channel, Daniken Aquatics, that he also…
Find out more »February 2020
Rich Bireley Big Tank
Rich does not remember not having tropical fish. That means he’s kept fish for a pretty long time unless you’re a Greenland shark. Rich is on his 3rd fish room, all of them fun, none of them automated. The current iteration is a 2,000 square foot monstrosity, er, insulated building next to the house. The building has about 130 aquaria set up inside and a substantial aquarium graveyard outside. Rich keeps just about any fish/critters that can be kept in…
Find out more »Board Meeting February
This board Meeting will be at Ken and Danielle house . This meeting is open to all Gpas members.
Find out more »March 2020
Mike Troxell -Soft Water Fish
*Bio Coming soon*
Find out more »April 2020
Plant Auction
This Years Plant Auction April 19 @ 3:00 PM - 6:00 PM PDT The Greater Portland Aquarium normally has our meeting every second Sunday, however this year Easter lands on the normal meeting. There fore, We are holding the meeting the third Sunday instead, which is April the 19th. The plant auction will have a wide selection of plants that can be use in and around the aquarium. Please refer to our Auction Rules page under the Meetings tab on…
Find out more »February 2021
A Walk Through of an Amazing Fish House- February Meeting
Rusty will Be our speaker, This will be online through zoom. If You would Like the link messages GPASPDX@gmail.com. Rusty maintains over 8000 gallons of freshwater aquariums in a state of the art fish house constructed specifically for fish. The 90 plus aquariums predominantly contain cichlids and livebearers, which he successfully raise and breeds. Rusty's specialty is Central American fishes. He has taken his hobby to a point where he has successfully collected fish from the countries of Africa, Belize, Costa Rica, Cuba,…
Find out more »October 2021
FISHTOBER FEST Sunday, October 10th 9am – 5pm
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Find out more »November 2021
GPAS NOVEMBER MEETING – Alex Williamson
Our guest speaker is Alex Williamson, from the Youtube channel "The secret history living in your aquarium" (https://www.youtube.com/c/TheSecretHistoryLivinginYourAquarium) "Alexander Williamson is a Seattle based Artist and Graphic Designer specializing in Illustrations, Logo Design, Branding, Marketing and of course... Aquariums & Aquascaping. I am a lifelong admirer of nature and hope to bring some of the magic and incredible beauty of the natural world into our homes. It is my aim to create free, easy to understand informational…
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