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Our next meeting will be Sunday, November 1, 2026 at 1pm after the GCCA Swap Meet.

Hilton Northbrook 
2855 N Milwaukee Ave,
Northbrook, IL, United States, Illinois

Speaker: Mike Hellweg

Our meetings are followed by a "Rare Livebearer Auction", plus some domestic Livebearers. 

Let us know what you are bringing and we may list them here.

Sunday, November 1, 2026 Auction will include:

 

Upcoming Dates are:
Sunday Nov 1, 2026 Mike Hellweg
Sunday Dec 6, 2026
Sunday Jan 17, 2027
Sunday Feb 28, 2027 Rare Livebearer Auction
Sunday Apr 4, 2027
Sunday Sep 19, 2027
Sunday Nov 7, 2027
Sunday Dec 5, 2027

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The Chicago Livebearer Association is happy to report that our recent Rare Livebearer Auction enabled us to make a substantial donation of $3000 to the American Livebearer Association's North American Goodeid Working Group (NAGWG).

The NAGWG works on habitat conservation and species maintenance and helps to fund the Fish Ark in Morelia, MX at the University de Mihoacan.

2023 Rare Livebearer Auction raises funds

CLS's fund-raising auction featured over 250 lots of fish, plants and other items. There was a huge variety of livebearers and even a few non-livebearers.

Forty-two bidders from all over the USA participated in the opportunity to bid and buy rare livebearers. One bidder traveled from NYC to obtain rare goodeids.

Thanks for the donations!

Many thanks to Patrick Miller, Bob and Teresa Sturnfield, Steve Hopman, Mike Hellweg, Chuck Bremer, Andy Piorkowski, Mike Schadle and many others who helped run the auction and donate fish.

We probably missed some folks, so apologies in advance . . .

We received donations from Imperial Tropicals (Discount Coupons for their website), KJE Aquatics, Select Aquatics, Cobalt, Sera and Swiss Tropicals. We had some great goodie bags which generated good revenue for us.