August 2008 Photo Contest Winner:

2007 Photo of the Year Contest Winner:

The purpose of the Breeders Award Program (BAP) is: to promote the keeping and breeding of aquarium fish, to recognize and motivate achievement in the hobby, to encourage research into the spawning of more difficult species, to share knowledge about breeding techniques, and to publish accounts of spawning techniques. Points are awarded for the following classes of fish:

• Class 1: Livebearers
• Class 2: Anabantoids
• Class 3: Barbs
• Class 4: Rainbowfish
• Class 5: Rasboras and Minnows
• Class 6: Characins
• Class 7: Cichlids - Old World
• Class 8: Cichlids - New World
• Class 9: Killifish - Mop Spawners
• Class 10: Killifish - Soil Spawners
• Class 11: Catfish
• Class 12: Sharks, Eels, and Loaches
• Class 13: Marine fish
• Class 14: All other fish
• Class 15: Native Fish
• Class 16: Freshwater and Saltwater Invertebrates

Members receive a specified number of points and a certificate for each species they spawn successfully. Once a class is completed, the member receives a plaque. Members may also receive a plaque for spawning hard to breed species. Achievement titles are awarded based on total points earned, classes completed, and number of 20 point and target species spawned.

Current BAP Standings and Cumulative list of all BAP submissions.

BAP materials:

• Current BAP Rules and Regulations (Word format) Last modified June, 26 2006
• Previous BAP Rules and Regulations (pdf) Last modified March, 2005
• Personal BAP Log (pdf) or (xls)
• Spawn Report Form (pdf) or (xls)
• Auction Seller's Form (pdf) or (xls) and Instructions.

BAP articles:

• Spawning Nichols’ Dwarf Mouthbrooder, Pseudocrenilabrus nicholsi (pdf) by Earl Blewett. How Earl spawned Pseudocrenilabrus nicholsi. New!
• Pseudomugil signifier The Pacific Blue-Eye (pdf) by Kyle Osterholt. How Kyle spawned Pseudomugil signifier. New!
• Captive breeding of Fundulopanchax puerzli (pdf) by Richard Atwood. How Richard spawned Fundulopanchax puerzli. New!
• My Attempts at Spawning Betta pi (pdf) by Gerald Griffin. Getting Betta pi to spawn is not a problem, the problem was obtaining fry from these fish.
• Nothobranchius patrizii (pdf) by Earl Blewett
• My spawning of Neolamprologus brichardi (pdf) by Richard Atwood
• Another Shot of Tequila, Please! (Zoogoneticus tequila) (pdf) by Gerald Griffin. Protecting the Tequila goodeid.
• Rivulus marmoratus the Mangrove Rivulin (pdf) by Earl Blewett. The only species of internally, self-fertilizing, hermaphroditic vertebrates in the world.

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