The Aquarium and Terrarium Society was first established in 1926.

The club prides it self on being one of the oldest in Queensland and has accumulated a wealth of knowledge, both through hobby experience and the trips into the areas where the creatures we desire for our aquariums come from originally.

Over the last twenty years the hobby has changed a great deal, yet has really remained the same if you can look at it from such a broad pool off knowledge.

The main things that have made the hobby seem so different now is the enormous amount of technological advances with in the aquarium hobby.

(Membership and meetings)

To join our club a donation of $25 for a single and $35 for a family for local residents only is current at this time.

(Contacts) (Danny-President-0733442542) (Phil-vice pres-0417797994) Email

(Post) The Aquarium and Terrarium Society of Queensland-Post office box 976 Slacks creek QLD 4127

We meet at the local member for Woodridge office of Desley Scott at 80 Wembly rd Woodridge at 7.30 pm each second and fourth Tuesday of each month for marines and the third Tuesday for the freshwater group.

The club offers fellow hobbyists, our contacts, marine and freshwater collecting trips, free xmas bbq, a wealth of knowledge and where possible, some help and advice to achieve a very successful hobby.

The club has many contacts in the pet industry as it has been around since 1926.We are also apart of QFAS,(Queensland federation of aquarium societies).

One of the aims of the club is to not just house and contain species, but to understand and learn from them about there natural processes and existence within nature.

Almost all of the people within our society connected with animal studies came from humble beginnings such as a hobbyist and that is what we represent.

When accessing our wonderful natural environment thru our collecting trips, we always recognize the importance of habitat and try to sustain it or increase it.

The club started with humble beginnings, unlike the hobby of aquarium keeping. These complexities can be simplified by us for you, in that we have done the research, we have made the mistakes, so that you don’t have to. There are three ways of keeping you’re hobby, basic, natural and high tech, we promote all three.

Here are two examples of fellow member’s tanks in the hobby we all share.

On occasion members of the club arrange some collection trips.

There are many wonderful snorkelling and dive sites in South east Queensland and through years of private club members trips to collect our own marine aquarium species we have accumulated a lot of knowledge on where to go and for what, for our hobby.

The club members have trips mainly throughout the warmer months, which are more so dictated by the temperature of the ocean not the air temperature.

The trips normally start around early November and really get going from around xmas.

Most of the species we go for are originally part of the plankton that from September to November begin to leave there short planktonic life to find a spot in the reefs for us to see and target from near xmas to the end of march, at this time they are starting to show them selves as they have become large enough to hopefully avoid predation of which accounts for 98 percent of most marine life before it can attain adult size.

The types of marine life we get for our tanks consist of most algae and some other inverts, most common angelfish, tangs, surgeon fish, several varieties of clown fish, butterfly fish,gobies,blennies,lionfish,bascily most of what is available on the barrier reef is found in these waters.

At times we go out on boat trips to collect, but mostly we access our beautiful coastline via shore snorkelling.

We always make sure that where we go and when we go to the ocean, it as safe as possible in relation to predators and adverse conditions.

A few times a year, normally in winter we have trips to some of our spots that are for low tide walks to collect our tank species.

These are very popular as it does not require any snorkelling and can include a trip to the beach and a picnic, mostly incorporated as extra enjoyment on our low tide trips.

These are just two pics of our adventures. Firstly Karl is holding a young leopard shark and Danny and Karl getting ready for some snorkelling in one boat and the other boat with us on the day doing the same.

These are a few of the types of fish we collect for our aquariums on our trips.

These are just few of the lovely aquarium species out off Brisbane we see on our trips.

Firstly a 1.Petrois Antennata 2. Chelmon Rostratus 3. Acanthurus Pyroferus 4. Two Pomacanthus Semicirculatus, to name a few!

On these trips we are so fortunate to be able to do what we enjoy, plus the club emphasises (always) the need for sustainability with in the eco systems we visit and this attitude is in the term we strongly believe in ,(once you have what you want, leave the area the way you found it!)

January-First meeting of the year on the fourth Tuesday.

February-

March-Petacular club display at the ekka grounds.

April-Start of rock pool species collecting trips.

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