The Texas Area Killifish Organization (TAKO) presents the Fourteenth Annual
TAKO KILLIFISH SHOW AND AUCTION
JULY 10 & 11, 2004

PLACE: La Quinta Inn - Houston Wilcrest, 11113 Katy Freeway, Houston TX
(713-932-0808)

SPEAKER: Jack Heller
Topics: Keeping Killies in the fish room
& West African collecting trips.

Jack Heller has been in the aquarium fish hobby since he was ten years old, and has collected killifish for thirty years.

Jack's primary focus is in West African killifish of the genera Aphyosemion, Fundulopanchax and Epiplatys. The most exciting experience during his years in the hobby was a collecting trip to Cameroon, West Africa with Professors Nevin Aspinwall and Tomas Hrbek in 1998. Fish from that collecting trip bear the collection label "HAH 98". Jack has written articles for JAKA and Aquarium Fish Magazine, and is currently serving his second term on the AKA Board of Trustees. Jack lives in Chesterfield Missouri, a suburb of St. Louis, and maintains a basement fish room with sixty tanks.

SHOW: Saturday July 10th
Morning - room set-up and fish loading, working session.
9:30 am - all fish must be benched, fish room open for visitors.
Free admission to show. This is your chance to see hundreds of beautiful Killifish.
10:00 am - judging begins.
2:00 pm - speaker and awards presentation.
SHOW CLASSES
This will be an all killifish show. Class winners will receive certificates.
1. New World Non-Annuals 9. Mesoaphyosemion (ex. Calliurum)
2. Rivulus 10. Mesoaphyosemion (Calliurum)
3. New World Annuals - Cynolebias Group 11. Chromaphyosemion
4. New World Annuals - All Others 12. Archiaphyosemion
5. Nothobranchius 13. Aphyosemion (All Others)
6. Fundulopanchax - Blue Gularis 14. Epiplatys
7. Fundulopanchax - (ex. Paraphyosemion) 15. All Other African/Eurasian
8. Fundulopanchax - (Paraphyosemion) 16. Matched Breeding Pairs

Free admission to show and auction. Contact for information on entering fish into show or auction.

AUCTION: Sunday July 11th
Morning - fish bagging for auction and room break down, working session, volunteers welcomed.
11:00 am - room open for fish viewing, make your list for the auction!
Free admission to auction. This is your chance to bid on hundreds of beautiful Killifish.
Noon - auction start, check or cash only

FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL DOUG (713) 725-9851
www.tako.daelarue.com

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