Breeder's Award Program

Breeders Award Program

The Breeders Award Program (BAP) is open to all members in good standing. Participants whose membership lapses will be ineligible but shall have their points reinstated upon renewing their membership.

The purposes of the Potomac Valley Aquarium Society (PVAS) Breeders Award Program (BAP) are:

1. To promote the keeping and breeding of fishes and other aquatic organisms.

2. To recognize outstanding achievements in breeding, rearing, and sharing of fishes and other aquatic organisms.

3. To encourage research into the spawning and rearing of the more difficult species and share successful spawning techniques.

I purchased a group of these fish from a seller at the Keystone Clash in September 2025.

Placed the fish in a heavily planted 40 Breeder with dirt capped with sand as the substrate. Filtration by a sponge filter and a box filter.

I put a variety of pleco caves scattered around the bottom.

Water is 90% RODI water and 10% montgomery tap water, with periodic 25% water changes.

Initially I was feeding canned string beans and then blanched fresh string beans but these fouled the water, so I switched to frozen Edamame which I cook briefly and then remove them from their pods, and pop the beans out of their husks.

I also feed various types of algae wafers from various vendors.

Grace Doyle

Ivanacara adoketa

Zebra Acara

Egg depositor (flat rock)

Ratio: 1 male, 1 female

Matt Hendrichs

Ivanacara bimaculata

Egg depositor (flat rock)

Ratio: 1 male, 1 female

Unknown if both wild caught (male was wc and female was possibly hobby bred)