Past Events

C.O.A.S.T. Fish Club has been meeting ever since 1977, and has continued our mission of passing on the knowledge of breeding & fish-keeping to freshwater aquarium hobbyists for nearly 5 decades.

In April 2024, C.O.A.S.T. Fish Club hosted it’s first inaugural AQUASWAP event! With the goal of producing a larger-than-usual turnout event, we successfully coordinated with local fish stores, hobbyists, and C.O.A.S.T. guests and members to trade, sell, and buy tropical fish, equipment, fish tanks, and more!

We had such a great turn-out event, thus it will be very likely that C.O.A.S.T. Fish Club will host the AQUASWAP event annually, so please stay tuned for future news and updates for 2025!

Check out this video highlight recap from Dave of Aquarium Thoughts on YouTube for AQUASWAP 2024! We’ll see you in 2025!

Shout out and thank you to Dave of Aquarium Thoughts Youtube channel for the recap!

For the month of September 2024, we hosted Rob McLure at Verdant Vivariums in Fountain Valley, CA. Rob was gracious enough to allow us to record and share this presentation with fishkeepers across the world. Thank you again Bonnie at Verdant Vivariums for hosting us on short notice! For all lovers of corydoradinae fish, you won’t want to miss this video. Please like the video and subscribe to our YT channel for more BTS footage at events like this in the near future, thanks!

Thank you to Rob McLure for allowing us to record this presentation for our YT channel!


In October 2024, C.O.A.S.T. Fish Club & Friends hosted our first inaugural C.O.A.S.T. Holiday Food Drive event, running from October 2024 through December 23, 2024. In this initiative, we partnered with our local fish stores to serve as drop-off locations for food donations from guests and members of our club, in support of Second Harvest Food Bank and OC Food Bank. In December 2024, we raised over 325 lbs, with a stretch goal of 500 lbs of food donated from our club.

During November 2024, we attended Verdant Vivariums Fall Frog Fest 2024 event! You can check out the tour of Verdant Vivariums in Fountain Valley, CA and check out interviews with some vendors here:

Thank you to Bonnie Person of Verdant Vivariums for hosting a spectacular frog fest!