2009 British Discus Show

[pcsb23]

Following the success of our debut show last year BIDKA are hosting the 2009 British Discus Show. We have a world class line up of speakers and judges too as well as the best Discus suppliers in the UK.

We already have confirmed visitors from the USA, Germany, Sweden and many other places and the event is supported by many of the top brands within the fishkeeping hobby.

When:
Weekend of 28th and 29th November 2009, benching Friday 27th pm.

Where:
Haydock Park Racecourse
Newton-le-Willows
Merseyside
WA12 0HQ
http://www.haydock-park.co.uk/conference

Show Classes:
We will have at least 72 show tanks this year. The classes for this years show are as follows:

• Class 1 - Solid Colour - e.g. Blue Diamond, Marlboro, Cobalt
• Class 2 - Striped - e.g. Turquoise, Snakeskin, Brilliant Turquoise
• Class 3 - Patterned - e.g. - Checkerboard, Pigeon Blood, Ring Leopard
• Class 4 - Spotted - e.g. Leopard, Leopard Snakeskin, Penang Eruption
• Class 5 - Open - e.g. Albinos, Red Whites
• Class 6 - Wild Caught - e.g. Heckel, Blue, Brown, Green

Speakers and Judges:

Andrew Soh - back by popular demand and is our senior judge, Andrew will be giving a talk on "Creating Designer Discus"
Jörg Stendker - Jörg will be judging and giving a talk on "Diskuszucht Stendker from beginning to now"
Ralf Battenberg - Ralf will be giving a lecture (subject to be confirmed) and will be judging
Jeffrey Tan - Jeffrey will be giving a lecture (subject to be confirmed) adn will be judging
Dr. Peter Burgess - Peter will be giving a lecture on "Parasites of discus and other fish"
Mike O'Sullivan - Mike will be judging.

Supporters at the Show:

• Discus South
• Devotedly Discus
• Daydream Discus
• Interpet
• NT Labs
• Practical Fishkeeping
• Tetra UK
• Underworld Products
• BestLight Productions (Germany)
• Yorkshire Beefheart Producers
• ZM Systems
• Australian Black Worms
• Mars Fishcare Europe
• Premier Morphs (Reptiles)
• The BIDKA Team and members

Other Attractions:

• We have negotiated preferential rates at the four star Haydock Thistle Hotel. http://www.thistle.com/hotels/united...ock/index.html
• Show dinner and auction on Saturday evening at the Thistle Hotel - fun, food, friends and alcohol!

Further Information:

Can be found at the show website here: http://british-discus-show.com/index.shtml

All are welcome

[Elite Aquaria]

Paul,

Congratulations...I wish I could come but that time of the year is tough in the retail world...

[pcsb23]

It is now only 7 weeks to the British Discus Show at Haydock Park. You can follow all the build up on Twitter

http://twitter.com/ukdiscusshow

[Jorge]

Is there a way to see photos of the show entries (a kind of photo gallery) after the show ends?

[pcsb23]

Hi George, the best way will be to go to the show and see them in the flesh

We will be running the live show website again as we did at last years show. I will post the address nearer the time

[pcsb23]

You can now "Fan us on Facebook" too
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Britis...3626900?v=wall

[mmorris]

The show will be held over Thanksgiving weekend so it's a very good reason for those of us in the states with a couple of extra days off to take a most enjoyable trip. I know it will be a very memorable weekend.
Martha

[kaj.p]

I will be there and im really looking forwards to se u guyes/girls again.

[pcsb23]

5 weeks now - looking forward to this

[ShinShin]

Good luck on another great show, Paul.

Mat

[terps]

Excellent website Paul! Good job on promoting the show. You had some great looking winners there in 2008.

http://show.bidka.org/results.shtml