ALA Class Sponsor

Sponsored by:

Class 1: Rusty Wessel
Class 2: Pet's Palace
Class 3: Keith Kalinowski
Class 4: Greater Akron Aquarium Society
Class 5: Louisville Tropical Fish Fanciers
Class 6: Pet's Palace
Class 7: Keith Kalinowski
Class 8: Keith Kalinowski
Class 9: Karen Haas
Class 10: Curt Bitterling
Class 11: Curt Bitterling
Class 12: Rich Serva
Class 13: Mike Busch
Class 14: Kevin Neves
Class 15: Mike Busch
Class 16: Kevin Neves
Class 17: Keith Kalinowski
Class 18: Louisville Tropical Fish Fanciers
Class 19: Rich Serva
Class 20: Tim Harbiger
Chairman’s Award: Patrick Miller
Joanne Norton Award: Cincinnati Aquarium Society
Frances Hubbs Miller Award: Pat Hartman
Robert Rush Miller Award: Tim Harbiger

The ALA Convention show is a 20-class show. We award 1st, 2nd & 3rd places in each class. Additionally, there are 4 additional Major awards.
Sponsoring a class costs $30, and the Major awards sponsorships are $100 each.

Show Classes
1. Guppy – Male Solid Color Tail, Delta Tail
2. Guppy – Male Variegated Color Tail, Delta Tail
3. Guppy – Male Other Tail Types
4. Guppy – Female
5. Mollies – Domestic Varieties and Hybrids – Color and/or finnage variations of either sailfin or shortfin type mollies
6. Mollies – Natural Species: Poecilia butleri, caucana, chica, gilli, gracilis, latipinna, mexicana, orri, petenensis, salvatoris, sphenops, velifera, etc.
7. Swordtails – Domestic, Common Finnage Xiphophorus helleri
8. Swordtails – Domestic, Fancy Finnage Xiphophorus helleri
9. Swordtails – Wild type: Xiphophorus alvarezi, birchmanni, clemenciae, cortezi, continens, kallmani, malinche, mayae, mixei, montezumae, monticolus, multilineatus, nezahuacoyotl, nigrensis, pygmaeus, signum, and helleri (with collection site information)
10. Variatus & Platies – Domestic, Common Finnage Xiphophorus variatus & X..maculatus
11. Variatus & Platies- Domestic, Fancy Finnage Xiphophorus variatus & X.maculatus
12. Platies – Wild type: Xiphophorus andersi, couchianus, evelynae, gordoni, milleri, meyeri, xiphidium, and variatus & maculatus (with collection site information)
13. Limias: caymenensis, dominicensis, melanogaster, miragoaensis, nigrofasciata, ornata,
perugiae, sulfurophila, tridens, versicolor, vitatta, zonata, etc.
14. All other Poeciliid species: Alfaro, Belonesox, Brachyrhaphis, Carlhubbsia, Cnesterodon, Flexipinnis, Gambusia, Girardinus, Heterandria, Heterophallus, Neoheterandria, Phallichthys, Phallocerous, Poecilia (other than guppies & mollies listed above), micro-Poecilia, Poeciliopsis, Priapella, Priapicthys, Pseudopoecilia, Quintana, Scolichthys, Xenophallus, etc.
15. Goodeids – Torpedo Body Shape Allodontichthys, Allotoca, Ataenobius, Characodon, Girardinichthys, Goodea, Ilyodon, Xenotaenia, etc.
16. Goodeids – Deep Body Shape Alloophorus, Ameca, Chapalichthys, Skiffia, Xenoophorus, Xenotoca, Zoogoneticus, etc.
17. All Other Livebearers: Halfbeaks (Dermogenys, Nomorhamphus, Hemirhamphodon, Zenarchopterus, etc.), Anableps, Jenynsia, Stingrays, etc.
18. Pairs Class – Livebearers, only male and female of the same species
19. Family Class – Livebearers parents and 10 or more fry under three months old. The fishes must have been bred by the exhibitor.
20. Livebearer photography

Chairman’s Award “most points”
Joanne Norton Award “Best domestic”
Frances Hubbs Miller Award “Best Goodeid”
Robert Rush Miller Award “Best Wild-type” (other than Goodeid)