Results & Report ITFS Show 2010

Because I don't have the energy for much else today I thought I would sit down and write up some facts and figures about the show. The show was a great success thanks to exhibitors, visitors, volunteers, judges and sponsors. It was the Judges opinion that the quality of fish on display was very high and the highest in recent years. The number of entries was up on previous years, but the number of entrants was down slightly on last year. The usual big classes of African Cichlids and Catfish were well represented and the new novelty class for Inverts was a great success with 17 entries.

The "Pairs of Fish" and "Breeders Team - Egglayers" classes saw a huge increase in the number of entries this year with 36 entries between them, a very positive sign for fish keeping and breeding in the hobby.

It was unfortunate that we had to close four major classes due to lack of entries, J -Rasboras, L-Loaches, X o-t - Breeders Team - Livebearers & U Single tailed Goldfish. Please don't tell me there is no one out there breeding guppies or owns a goldfish!

All of the Livebearer classes. O - Guppies, P - Cultivated Livebearers, Q - Swordtails, R - Platies and S Mollies had to be combined to make a single class T - Any Other Species Livebearers and even then there were only 4 entries. Surely there are more livebearers in our tanks than that. Maybe, incorrectly, some people think that these are "common" fish and don't deserve to be shown, but a good specimen of any fish is worth showing, regardless of class.

It would be great to see many more people bringing along a few fish, rather than relying on the same few people every year to bring half the exhibits.

Attendance at the show was considerably down on last year, I think we have to blame the weather for that, hopefully next year it will be fine, but cold.

Special thanks to Ian(igmillichip) and Justine of The Herpetological Society of Ireland for an excellent display and to our special guest Anton Lamboj who gave excellent presentations on "Western African Cichlids" and "The Victorian Cichlids Breeding program". (separate post to follow).

Personally, on behalf of everyone that attended the show and as Show Secretary I would like to thank all of the volunteers that helped throughout the weekend, some of whom are not even directly involved in the club. In advance if I forget someone no offence intended, it's an exhaustion thing, in no particular order: Paul (Goldy's other half), Peter (Zig), John, Andrew, Dave (Acara), Paddy (Paddytuite), Adrian (Arabu1973), John, (Johnh), Bernard, Ioan (Xeon) and his Dad, Ken (KenS), Daniel (Anotheridiot), Tom and Jo, Andrius, Derek (dclifford), Johnny, Astrid (MrsFishpatrick), Mags, Platty252's Mam and Sister, and of course Darren (Platty252) and Nessa (Goldy) without whom the show would never happen.

Finally thank you to those that travelled long distances, great to see Valerie and Declan from Galway, Mickey, Catherine and David from Drogheda, Donald (Killikid), Chris (Puddlefish), Martin (Duzzy1) from Limerick, Shea (Sheag35) from Galway and I believe we also had visitors from Cork too.

B - Barbs (4 entries)
1st Puntius denisonii D Owens Denisons Barb
2nd Puntius padamya "odessa" Mrs Fishpatrick Odessa Barb
3rd Puntius everetti JohnH Clown Barb

C - Characins (3 entries)
1st Inpaicthys kerri JohnH Blue Emperor Tetra
2nd Hyphessobrycon herbertaxelrodi JohnH Black Neon Tetra
3rd Hasemania nana Goldy Silver Tip Tetra

Special Prize: Perpetual Plaque "Best Characin in Show" - sponsored by Tetra

D - Cichlids - Other (7 entries)
1st Symphysodon discus Xeon Discus
2nd Symphysodon discus Xeon Discus
3rd Symphysodon discus Andrius Discus

Da - Angelfish (4 entries)
1st Pterophyllum scalare JohnH Angelfish
2nd Pterophyllum altum JohnH Altum Angelfish
3rd Pterophyllum scalare JohnH Angelfish

Db - Dwarf Cichlids (3 entries)
1st Apistogramma agassizi Xeon Apisto “Double Red”Agassizi
2nd Dicrossus filamentosa Eric Gasparro Chequerboard cichlid
3rd Apistogramma Cacatuoides JohnH Apisto Cac. “Sunrise”

Dc - African Cichlids (10 entries)
1st Tropheops sp. "Chilumba" KenS
2nd Labidochromis caeruleus KenS
3rd Aulunocara "Rubescens" KenS

E - Labyrinths (9 entries)
1st Betta rubra JohnH
2nd Betta channoides JohnH
3rd Betta uberis JohnH

F - Egglaying toothcarps (6 entries)
1st Aplocheilichthys camerunensis Zig Lampeye Killie
2nd Aplocheilus lineatus goa Platty252
3rd Nothobranchius palmqvisti Platty252

G - Catfish (15 entries)
1st Oligancistrus Sp. L354 D Owens L354
2nd Microglanis iheringi Platty252 South American Bumblebee Catfish
3rd Peckoltia Sp. L134 Acara Leopard Frog

H - Corydoras / Brochis Catfish (12 entries)
1st Corydoras elegans Xeon
2nd Scleromystax Sp. C113 D Owens C113
3rd Corydoras habrosus Daniel

J - Rasboras (2 entries - class closed and entrants moved to class M)

K - Danios (9 entries)
1st Danio kyathit JohnH Orange-finned Danio
2nd Danio margaritatus Daniel Celestial Danio
3rd Danio margaritatus Daniel Celestial Danio

L - Loaches (2 entries - class closed and entrants moved to class M)

M - Any Other Species Egglayers (10 entries)

N - Pairs of Fish (15 entries)
1st Danio mrgaritatus Daniel Celestial Pearl Danio
2nd Poecilia reticulata Xeon Guppy
3rd Corydoras pantanalensis Acara

Classes O - Guppies (1 entry), P - Cultivated Livebearers, Q - Swordtails (2 entries), R - Platies, S - Mollies closed, entries moved to class T

T - Any Other Species Livebearers (4 entries)
1st Characodon lateralis JohnH Rainbow Goodied
2nd Xiphophorus helleri D Owens Swordtail
3rd Xiphophorus clemenciae Platty252 Dwarf Swordtail

Classes U - Singletail Goldfish & V - Twintail Goldfish (1 entry) closed and moved to Class W

W - Any Other Species Coldwater (3 entries)
1st Fantail Goldfish Goldy
2nd Misgurnus anguillicaudatus Dimitri Weather Loach
3rd Tanichthys micagemmae JohnH Vietnamese White Cloud

X o-t Breeders Group - Livebearers (1 entry) closed and moved to class X b-m

X b-m Breeders Group - Egglayers (21 entries)

1st Synodontis petricola Derek Doyle
2nd Corydoras elegans D Owens
3rd Limia melanogaster D Owens Blue Bellied Limia

Class Prizes: 1st Plaque and goodie bag of food and water treatments
2nd Trophy and goodie bag
3rd Trophy and goodie bag

Novelty Classes

U12 - Any species from U12 entrant (5 entries)
1st Danio choprai Robert Duffy Glowlight Danio
2nd Aplocheilichthys camerunensis Ian Kirwan Lampeye Killie
3rd Misgurnus anguillicaudatus Amy Duffy Weather Loach

All entrants received a medal for taking part.

INV - Any aquatic invert (Shrimps, frog, snails etc) (17 entries)
1st Crystal Black Shrimp D Owens CBS
2nd Blue Pearl Shrimp Mrs Fishpatrick Blue Pearl
3rd Red Cherry Shrimp Andrius Cherries

Judged by special guest Anton Lamboj.
Prize: Betta cube tank.

Best in Show:Tropheops sp. "Chilumba" KenS

Prize: Perpetual cup & medal.

Entrants: 21

Top entrants: JohnH 28 entries in 17 classes
Xeon 20 entries in 11 classes
D Owens 19 entries in 8 classes
Acara 15 entries in 8 classes
Platty252 12 entries in 7 classes

Entrants Draw winner: Andrius. Prize: Bucket of Tetra food.

Damn when I typed this out the results were in easy to read columns, any techy out there please tell me what I did wrong??

They read. Position / Exhibit / Winner / Common name (f any).


Daragh

Daragh great Show had a cracking day and i will wear the T Shirt thanks Johney

Great report,many thanks.
Congrats to all the winners,and anyone who showed their lovely fish,but didnt place.Don't think they're 'no good',there were some cracking fish there that didnt 'place',especially some of mine:laugh:
I thought the standard was pretty dammed good,and was delighted to see more of a variety of species,particularly favourites of mine eg betta,corys and L-nos.
I picked what was probably my 'favourite in show',and he got 2nd in his class,Class Db.
Congrats to the 2 greedy boys,KenS and JohnH:laugh:
I'm backwards and forward to the shed all night,already sorting out next years winers!

It was a great show and thank you all for the hard work ye put in . really enjoyed it . and congrates to all the winners . lookin forward to next year

Dargh,
That was a great write up, great to see all the different varietys of fish and inverts folk keep.
Also amazed at the amount of work and time it must of taken to pull the show off. It was nice to put some faces to the name on here.
It was my first show and enjoyed it immensely.
I will get more involved next year and i will enter several categories and help out where possible.
Well done to one and all involved with the show
Regards to one and all,
Denis

well said John, gotta fet my best fish in shape for next year so the usual suspect have a run for their money brilliant to meet up with older forum members as well as new ones, cant wait till next year when hopefully i'll have no exams and can bench fish

JohnH wrote:

sheag35 wrote:

well said John, gotta fet my best fish in shape for next year so the usual suspect have a run for their money brilliant to meet up with older forum members as well as new ones, cant wait till next year when hopefully i'll have no exams and can bench fish

I cannot imagine who you might mean there?

John

ok Johnh, shall i say the more established forum members before i get accused of ageism

great report daragh and very well put john. It is a good run down of proceedings for everyone. I know I was there and even presented the awards but it was a bit of a blur at that stage so to see it in plain english is good. Well done again to Kens for best fish in show. Its a beaut.

One or 2 things to add: Thanks to the judges who worked really hard to get the judging finished in time to open the doors. We had 2 Senior 2 newly qualified and 2 trainee judges this year which was fantastic. Well done to you Derek, Phil, Daragh, Darren, Dave and Adrian. Hopefully we will be able to have more people interested in training and taking the Judges exam for future shows.

And lastly just to say that we have kept our record of not 1 fish lost at a show and this was the 4th in recent times (and I dont mean misplaced.) This is really important to all of us as they are our pets at the end of the day and we all sepnd a lot of time and effort looking after them. I know mine are part of the family and the kids insist on funerals so it would be very distressing if bubbles had to come home with a plaque for 1st place and then go to the big fish tank in the sky. (yes I know I am mad)

I should be ok by next years show I think...

Nessa