Schedule

Wednesday, June 11, 2025

8am to 5pm  – Show Room, Rental Room & Vendor Setup

Thursday, June 12, 2025

8am – 4pm – Goliad Farms – limit 56
9am – 5pm – Show Room, Rental Room & Vendor Open, BABES Table
5pm – 8pm – Registration Open
6:30pm – 9pm – KICK Room
7 pm – 8 pm – Mark Pyle – Building a better grow-out system!
8pm – 9pm – Gerald Griffin – Wild Betta Species – Overview of the New Wild Betta Standard!
9pm – 10:30pm – Juan Miguel Artigas Azas – Swordtails of the Panuco!
8pm – 12pm – Hospitality suite Open (by Texas Cichlid Association)

Friday, June 13, 2025

8am -2pm – San Marcos Collecting and Xiphophorus Stock Center Tour
9am – 5pm – Show Room & Vendor Room Open, BABES Table
9am – 5pm – Registration Open
9am – 5pm – ALA-AKA-IBC SILENT Auction
10am – 9pm – KICK Room
1pm – 2pm – ALA-AKA-IBC Board Meeting
2:30pm- 3:30pm – Jose Gonzalez – Catching up with Malagasy Cichlids!
3:30pm-4:30pm – Devin Espinoza – The Wonderful World of Nothobranchius!
4:30pm – 5:30pm – Markita Savage – Xiphophorus Genetic Stock Center!
7:00pm – 8:30pm – Rare Goodeid Auction to support ALA
8:30pm – KICK Auction ( Kids Only)
8:30pm – 10pm Hospitality Suite Open
9pm – ALA- AKA- IBC Show Entry Deadline
10pm – ? – ACA BABES AUCTION

Saturday, June 14, 2025

7am – 9am Show Judging ALA -AKA- IBC
9am – 5pm Show Room & Vendor Room Open, BABES Table
9am- 10am Charles Clapsaddle – BREEDING SYSTEMS (for maintaining species/varieties, improving varieties, and developing new varieties)!
10am- 11:30am Juan Miguel Artigas Azas – Rheophilus Cichlids from North America!
10am- 9:00 pm KICK Room
11:30am – 1pm Swap Meet and Killie Carnival
12pm – 1:30 pm Kids Decorating Contest by Aqueon & Finspiration Aquatics (limited to 15)
1pm – 2 pm Ad Konings – (50 Years) Chasing Cichlids in Their Natural Habitat!
2pm – 3pm Dr Roger Brousseau – Keeping and Raising South American Annual Killifish!
3pm – 4 pm Chris Horsfall – Sustain Nkondwe Island, Lake Tanganyika!
4pm – 5pm (ALA Graduate Student Poster Presentations)
5pm – 6:30pm Wine/Beer Tasting Fundraiser
6:30pm – 7:30pm Reception Bar
7:30pm – 8:30pm Combined Banquet (ACA, AKA, ALA . IBC & FOTAS)
8:30pm – 9:30pm Banquet Speaker – Greg Steeves
9:30pm – 12am Hospitality suite open (by Texas Cichlid Association) & Fish/ Vendor room open
(show fish can be removed)

Sunday, June 15, 2025

8am – 10am Tear Down Fish Show
8am – 10am Show award presentations
10am ACA – ALA – AKA – IBC auction