BAP Classifications and Points

Class A: 8 POINTS 

  1. All livebearers not listed in other classes 
  2. All Oryzias (ricefish) 
  3. All snails 
  4. Danios and Brachydanios 
  5. Cichlids: Convicts, Firemouths, Blue Acara, Jewels, Ports, Similar species. 
  6. Killifish: A. gardneri, Australes, Aplo, Lineatus, Apl. Panchax, Epiplatys, Dageti. 
  7. White clouds & Australian Rainbows. 

Class B: 13 POINTS 

  1. All barbs 
  2. All Colisa species, Bettas, and Paradise Fish 
  3. All goldfish, Koi & Carp 
  4. All halfbeaks 
  5. All other Mop Spawning Killiefish not listed in Class A. 
  6. All other Rainbows not listed in Class A & D. 
  7. Cichlids: All not listed elsewhere (Aequidens, Angelfish, Tilapia, Cyanoguttatum, Severums). 

Class C: 15 POINTS 

  1. All Goodeids, Zoogoneticus 
  2. Anabantoids: Kissing, Moonlight, Pearl & Croaking Gouramies, Osphronemus Goramy, Belontia Species, Anabas species. 
  3. Catfish: All corydoras 
  4. Characins: All except those listed in Class D. 
  5. Cichlids: All not listed elsewhere (Geophagus, Dwarf Cichlids, Africans, Tretocephalus, Tropheus Species, Cichlasomas) 
  6. Killifish: All soil spawning except those listed in Class D 
  7. Livebearers: Belonesoxs 
  8. Marine: Fairy Shrimp, Seahorses, Pipefish 
  9. Other: Bumblebee Gobies, Glassfish, Sun Fish, Sticklebacks, American Minnows, Leaf Fish
  10. Rainbows: Featherfins 

Class D: 20 POINTS 

  1. Anabantoids: Chocolate Gourami, Combtails, Ctenopoma Species 
  2. Characins: Neons, Cardinals, Black Neons, Hatchet Fish, Silver Dollars, Piranahs, Pencilfish, Rasboras 
  3. Killifish: Rivulus Rectidallus, Heteromorphia, Saberfins 
  4. Marine: All not listed in Class C 
  5. Livebearers: Anableps 
  6. Catfish : All not listed elsewhere. 
  7. Others: Badis Badis, Algae Eaters, Lamprichthys, Scats, Arrowanas, Butterfly Fish, Mudskippers 
  8. Cichlids: Discus, Uarus, Crenacara, Green Chromides, Cyathopharynx, Furnifer, Frontosa, Lamp. Compressiceps, Lamp. Sexfasciatus