BAP

The Breeder Award Program (BAP) recognizes the achievements of MAS members’ endeavors to breed fish.  The program encourages members of MAS to:

  • breed fish.
  • share knowledge about the spawning and growing fish.
  • distribute fish between club members
  • become active in the club, expanding the experience of membership
  • recognize the achievements of program participants

MAS members breed fish for points, which are accumulated to reach individual achievement levels and for annual awards.  Point values for each species vary depending upon the difficulty of spawning and raising the fry.  Fish that are submitted for BAP points are donated to the club for auction at the general meetings, and the proceeds from those auction sales support MAS programs.

Rules

A full set of BAP rules can be found here:  BAP RULES

Here is a synopsis of the basic system for participating in BAP:

  1. To be a BAP-eligible spawn:
  • There must be five healthy fry of at least 45 days of age.
  • The member must own the parents of the fry and their spawning must occur under the direct care of the member in their home.
  • A spawning report must accompany the fry when they are submitted (link to spawning report is below).
  • Higher level species require a breeding article to be submitted to the Splash editor before points will be awarded.

BAP Spawning Report (submission form) :  Spawning Report

Data Tables

Species Point Values

Members’ Spawns List

NEW IN 2009

The MAS Demanding Dozen

There are many species of fish that are considered difficult, but not impossible, to spawn.  The goal of this new BAP incentive is to encourage MAS members to work with some of these species that have never been submitted to the MAS BAP.  Each year 12 species of fish will be placed on the Demanding Dozen list.  During that year the first person to submit a spawn of that species will earn double the point value of the species as a bonus.  Any other person to spawn the same species, but submit the spawn after the first submission, will a 10 point bonus.  At the end of the year all of the Demanding Dozen that were not spawned will roll over to the list for the next year, and new species will be placed on the list to replace those that were spawned.

Any species that stay on the list for three years will be removed from the Demanding Dozen list and placed onto the MAS Most Wanted list.  The first successful spawn of a species on the MAS Most Wanted list will earn the breeder 50 bonus points.

A complete set of rules can be seen here:  Demanding Dozen Rules

The Demanding Dozen for 2009 are:

Phenacogrammus interuptus (Congo tetra)

Acarichthys heckeli (Threadfin ciclid)

Betta coccina (Red Wine betta)

Corydoras robinae (Bannertial cory cat)

Fundulopanchax sjostedti (Blue Gularis killi)

Anableps anableps (Foureye livebearer)

Sturiosoma aurem (Royal farlowella)

Crenicichla compressiceps (Green Dwarf pike cichlid)

Pantodon buccholzi (African Butterfly fish)

Puntias denisoni (Rose Line barb)

Sewellia lineolata (Tiger hillstream loach)

Cyathopharynx foai (a Lake Tanganyika featherfin cichlid)

Also New in 2009…

MAS members may now turn in different color forms or geographic variants of the same species for partial points.

The first spawn of a species that a member submits earns the point for that species.  Each subsequent spawn of the same species, but of a different variety, will earn the breeder 5 points, regardless of the point level of the species.  A complete description of this new rule can be read in the BAP Rules.