Fish
We keep and breed dozens of species of cichlids, catfish, livebearers and more.
Join us at one of our meetings to benefit from our decades of experience!
Vermont’s Largest Club dedicated to All aspects of The aquarium Hobby
Tropical Fish Club of Burlington, Vermont
Plants
From the hardiest Java Ferns to CO2 injected planted tanks, our members have it all.
Shrimp
Always popular — and with good reason! Many club members bring shrimp to our monthly meeting auctions.
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Our meetings are open to everyone
(this means you!)
Each meeting features a presentation from an expert speaker, door prizes, and an auction of locally-raised fish and plants. Bring your questions on anything fish-related! Sign-up today!
Don’t like commitments? You don’t need to be a member to come check out a meeting. But we bet you’ll become one!
Meetings are the second Thursday of each month, 6:30 – 8:30 PM at the Essex Junction VFW.
Note: We don’t have regular meetings in July, August or December. Check out the full meeting schedule, below.
2025 Speaker Schedule
Meetings are held the 2nd Thursday of the month at the VFW 73 Pearl St, Essex Junction, VT. Open to all, door prizes, auction and speakers.
January 9th – Dr Ted Coletti
Kick off the year.
January meeting Facebook event page
Feb 13th -Olin Reed, VT DEC
Olin will discuss general aquatic invasive species work in Vermont and how it relates to the aquarium trade. Free admission and open to all, door prizes, auction, lots of fish talk too.
February meeting Facebook event page
March 13th – Ming Tam
“South American Eartheaters”. Free admission and open to all, door prizes, auction, lots of fish talk too.
March meeting Facebook event page
April 10th – Lindsey Pett
The Hobby & Ecology of Carnivorous Plants. Free admission and open to all, door prizes, auction, lots of fish talk too.
April meeting Facebook event page
May 8th – TFCB Pizza Party
We will have three mini talks, plus a pizza party. Ira Gardner will talk his fertilizers he makes in the little pump bottles he has been bringing to meetings and auctions. Sang Cho will give us a brief talk on Cardina shrimp and how he is keeping them. David Banks will talk about breeding Synodontis mulitpunctatus and petricola. Open to all, door prizes and auction too.
June 12th – Greg Gregory
Greg will present his talk on Wild Bettas. Door prizes and auction too.
New members are welcome at this and all our meetings!
August 3 -TFCB Summer Picnic
Please join us for our club picnic at David and Janine’s in Grand Isle. Club will provide hot dogs and hamburgers and drinks. Please bring a side dish, appetizer or dessert to share. Also bring lawn chair, towel and bathing suit, water shoes, sunscreen. Please RSVP if you can make it, and let us know what you will bring, so we don’t end up with 6 pasta salads. 🙂
Sept 11th -Andrew Blumhagen
Please join us as Andrew Blumhagen presents his new program, “Designing Plecos: Genetics of Fancy Ancistrus”. Door prizes, small auction and lots of fish talk!
Oct 9th -Lawrence Kent
We are excited to have Lawrence Kent speaking on his adventures “Finding Cichlids and Catfish All Over Africa: 18 years and 18 countries” Door prizes, auction items and some good fish talk!
The title is pretty self-explanatory. It’s a whirlwind tour across the continent and many of its lakes and rivers, where I’ve been lucky enough to catch interesting tropical fish on my free days on the margins of work-related trips. We’ll start in the east in Malawi and work our way north to Ethiopia then over to the center of Africa – Congo – before heading westward to places like Nigeria and Burkina Faso before wrapping up in Senegal. I’ll share some stories and cichlid and catfish pictures along the way. I hope you can attend. There will be prizes.
Lawrence will also speak in Montreal the evening before on “Benin There, Done That: Collecting Tropical Fish in West Africa”
Nov 13th -TFCB meeting
TBD
Dec 11th -Holiday Meeting
Always a good time, lots of food, casual discussions and games!
