Specialist Classes

The Specialist Classes have been designed to give additional

incentive to members of the Breeders Award Program to diversify

their efforts into as many interest areas as feasible.  Additional

classes may be added in the future.

To achieve any Specialist Class, an aquarist must breed a group

of organisms whose assigned BAP values total 300 points and

which fulfill the requirements of the particular class.

I.      Catfish Specialist

        The fishes bred must represent five different genera and three

        different families and total 300 BAP points.

II.     Killifish Specialist

        The fishes bred must represent at least ten soil spawners (not

        including switch spawners) and ten mop spawners; at least ten

        Old World species and at least ten New World species; at least

        ten genera; and total 300 BAP points.

III.   Cichlid Specialist

        The fishes bred must represent at least fifteen New World species

        from five different genera including Symphysodon; at least

        fifteen Old World genera including Etroplus and five from western

        Africa; and total 300 BAP points.

IV.    North American Native Fish Specialist

        The fishes bred must represent at least two species from each of at

        least five families (or, the sum of ten reached by computing two

        points for each family in which two or more species have been recorded

        and one point for each additional family); no more than 150 points

        of the required 300 can be from any one family.

V.     Livebearer Specialist

        The fishes bred must represent at least fifteen genera in at least

        four families; no more than 150 points of the required 300 can be

        from any one family.