Bristol Tropical Fish Club

Latest information on BTFC:

On 19th August, Peter Anderson will be talking about Furnished Aquariums

The latest show report has been put together and now uploaded to the site.

This year, the BTFC show will take place on the 26th of June. Further information and entry forms are now available.

On 20th May, “The Malta experience” by Andy Pearce and Chris Ralph.

On 18th March, Paddy Davies will talk about the journey of fish from river to retailer.

On 18th February, Bob Marklew will be telling us about keeping, breeding and identifying Ancistrus catfish.

On 21st January, we will be watching a video about tropical fish care.

Ivan Dibble, a long standing club member, passed away a few days ago. He was the founder of the Project Fish Ark in Mexico, which is a conservation of all fish, mainly Goodieds and other livebearers. The club would like to express there condolence to his Family at this sad time.

On December 17th, we will be holding our anual American supper.

We would like to welcome Gill Joslin to the BTFC committee, following the AGM.

Winners of October's Photo Competition is KittyKat with her photo of a Duncanopsammia axifuga:

Our annual general meeting will take place on Novembert 19th, all members should attend to help us elect the committee for next year.

On 15th October, we will be watching a DVD about 101 tropical freshwater fish as our planned speaker has unfortunately had to cancel due to unforseen circumstances.

Winners of September's Photo Competition is KittyKat with her photo of a male Cockatoo cichlid:

Winners from the Open Show 2009 are now up!

August's Photo Competition has finished with Marcus Dace as the winner with this photo of his new Betta:

I would find it very helpful if everyone who uses this website could vote in a poll on the forum regarding their preffered way of viewing the forum.

Photos from the Open Show 2009 are now up!

July's Photo Competition has come to a late end with Jos as the winner with this Oscar:

On 17th September, Paddy Davies, our very own club member, will give up a talk on fishes of Cuba, I'm sure we will find this very interesting and it would be nice to have a good turn out in support of his first talk.

On 20th August, we will be hearing from Dick Mills, the FBAS presidents, about this year's Aquarama from Singapore. Please note that the meeting will be held at Parkers Aquatic and Garden Centre, Wotton Rd, Iron Acton, Bristol, Avon, BS37 9XA

On 16th July, our meeting will be an "Open evening and members night": we will be accessing the internet on fish related topics, led by Jos and other members. For those of you who haven't seen the club website here's your chance, there will be plenty of time for you to ask questions on this subject. I hope you will all try to make this a success, see you there.

June's Photo Competition has come to an end with a tie between Dai and Kim with their photos of a Gold Barb and a Guppy:

On 18th June, Dr. David Price will be giving us a talk on "Some time ago in Mexico".
David Price is 58, married and with a daughter Rith. Born and brought up in Old Trafford, Manchester, he is now exiled in Plymouth where he works as a lecturer in Genetics in the School of Piological Schiences in Plymouth...
Article courtesy of Catfish Study Group.

Winner of May's Photo Competition is KittyKat with this photo of her Malawi set-up:

Winner of April's Photo Competition is Jos with his photo of some Channa:

A list of confirmed judges for the 2009 show has been added.

This month's talk is on Snakeheads by a very successful breeder Ulrich Alsfasser, if snakeheads are not your palette, don't despair as this talk is very interesting.

We will also be holding a table show, please bring along any fish your considering showing at this year show, we are here to guide you and give you advice and help.

Winner of March's Photo Competition is Jos with his photo of some Channa:

This month’s program is a video presentation by Heiko Bleher on King of the Amazon (The World Of Discus).

Winner of February's Photo Competition is KittyKat with this photo of a Guppy:

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On 19th March, Roy Davies will be talking on keeping and breeding Barbs. Roy also shows fish as well as being Chairman of Port Talbot Aquarist Fish Club, and is travelling a long way to give us this talk on a very interesting subject.

On 19th Febuary, Chris Cheswright will join us for a talk on Killiefish, this is a speaker who's going to travel over one hundred and twenty miles to give us a talk on this very hard to find subject, please come along and support our speaker, this will be a very interesting subject and I'm sure we will all enjoy. Chris is Chairman of the B.L.A, F.B.A.S. and an A class judge as well as being active member of Southend Leigh and district aquarist aquarium club.

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Winner of December's Photo Competition is Smuttysy with this photo of an African Rift Lake Cichlid:

Winner of November's Photo Competition is KittyKat with this photo of a Frogfish:

Winner of October's Photo Competition is mbunafishkeeper with this photo of a 4" male managuense:

Winner of September's Photo Competition is Jos:

Winner of August's Photo Competition is kim with this photo of a Giant Danio: