Swap Meet Saturday February 7th 2026
Our next upcoming event will be our first Swap Meet! Tables are available to rent for $40 and then you are able to sell your fish and fish supplies! Guidelines for the event are available here (Updated Feb 2nd). This event will be held at the Highland Park Community Center on Saturday February 7th, with the doors set to open to the general public at 10:30am. Table requests can be made by Emailing Membership@calgaryaquariumsociety.com and all proceeds are kept by the seller!
Aquascaping Lessons Learned: 100 Tanks Later – Sept 26th
The Calgary Aquarium Society is very excited to announce both our Fall Auction as well as a special presentation by Jeff Miotke. Jeff is an award-winning aquascaper with 45 years in the aquarium hobby and more than a decade competing in aquascaping contests. Known for his cinematic storytelling and refined compositions, Jeff blends artistic vision with technical mastery. His work has been featured in international contests, conventions, magazines, and educational platforms. A longtime mentor and community leader, Jeff shares his passion through speaking engagements, articles, and his growing YouTube channel, where he documents builds from concept to final scape. Whether he’s crafting a dramatic layout or guiding others toward mastery, Jeff’s focus is always on creativity, flow, and the joy of the process.
Tickets are available at Showpass for the presentation by Jeff which will also include Pizza / Beverages. As always the fall auction is free of charge to attend and lots can be requested via Email by contacting Curtis at president@calgaryaquariumsociety.com .
A Night With Hans Evers – Concluded
The Calgary Aquarium Society welcomes everyone to “A Night Out With Hans Evers”, a presentation given on the Sulawesi region and its local aquatic inhabitants. Set to take place on Friday October 25th – further details below.
About The Event
Hans will give his presentation on the Sulawesi region, there will be some pizza and pop available for attendees. In addition we will have a Silent Auction during the event and after the presentation has concluded we will announce the winners as well as hold a limited live auction.
A Little More About Hans
Hans – Georg Evers (60) lives in Hamburg, Germany and since his very early days an aquarist by heart. His main interests are catfish, mainly the Corydoradinae and Loricariidae, followed by rainbowfish, characins and all other imaginable freshwater fishes and shrimps. Hans is a busy traveler and photographer, speaks several languages and has visited many tropical countries worldwide, mainly South America, Asia and 15 trips to New Guinea. On his journeys he discovered many new and scientifically undescribed fish species, in recent years mainly rainbowfish. He gives quite vivid lectures about his passion all over the globe.
He has published 15 books, hundreds of articles and co-authored several scientific papers. The Sulawesi Rice fish Oryzias eversi and the South American catfish Hoplisoma eversi are named after him. From 2005 until 2018 he was the chief editor of the international aquarium magazine AMAZONAS and still works as an editor-in-large for the American version.
Only recently he published an “Identification Guide for Corydoradinae” together with senior author and friend Ian Fuller.
Hans Evers simply loves fish – 24/7 – all year round!