PROFILE OF A GUPPY BREEDER #11 Luke Roebuck

COOL HAND LUKE (The guppy ambassador of the world)

Frank Schulterbrandt 3/5/2016

Luke has been raising and breeding fancy guppies for over forty five plus years, and showing IFGA quality

fancy guppies for twenty plus years. Luke’s native country of Trinidad & Tobago, where he lived all his pre-adult life. In the South Caribbean, He raised wild, store-bought, and imported, show-quality guppies from

breeders such as Lou Wasserman back in the early 1970's.

Luke maintained 200+ tanks of show quality guppies and has won many first place awards around the world. Along the way he has also collected a few Best Of Show awards also here from the states and abroad. Luke was always importing guppies from around the world and he would further develop that line. Many people from around world and the states also obtained various guppy lines from Luke. I always called him Trini-Man for obvious reasons. I really got to know Luke from the 1990’s and 2000’s as he raised black delta guppies as those were my favorites. Luke would only show them once in a while but I always knew that he had them somewhere in his fish room. Never bored in his fish room as he was creating or improving the different lines of guppies that he had. At the IFGA meeting shows and the IFGA Annuals Luke was always a blast. I could always count on him knocking down a cold one with me. Luke Roebuck an IFGA Certified judge, Luke Roebuck winner of many first place awards, Luke Roebuck winner of many IFGA color class championships, Luke Roebuck winner of Best Of Show awards from all over the world, Luke Roebuck MASTER BREEDER (the highest accolade that can be bestowed upon an IFGA exhibitor of guppies). Luke Roebuck “GUPPY AMBASSADOR OF THE WORLD”

SELECTED BREEDER AWARDS

IFGA /USA Grand National Overall 1st Runnerup, Male & Female, 2000

Best of Show female Cleveland, 2000: Moscow Grand Champion Brazil, 2000; L'Association

France Vivipare, Concours International de Guppy

French/European International Guppy Show, Blois, France 1998

Best of Show Delta

IFGA Class Champions: Half Black AOC Female, Breeder Female, 2000

AOC Albino Class Champion, 2000

IFGA Class Champion Red Albino 1999 & 2000

Best of Show Delta

L'Association France Vivipare, Concours International de Guppy

French/European International Guppy Show, Blois, France 1998

Best of Show Delta

IFGA Grand Overall Male Runner-up 1995&1999

IFGA Black Color Class Champion 1995, 1996, 1997, 2nd BOS 1995.

IFGA Snakeskin Varigated Delta Color Class Champion 1997, 1st Runner-up 1998

IFGA Snakeskin Veil Color Class Champion

IFGA Body/Eye Color (Albino) Veil Class Champion 1997, 1998,

Including Five "Best of Shows"

Internationale Guppyausstellung in Wein, Austria 1999 (OGG)

1st Platz Red Albino Delta

Japan Guppy Association(JGA) Guppy Show 1998

1st place Red Albino delta

IFGA Albino Color Class Champion 1999,

Including Four Best of Shows in 1999 and two Breeder Male 1st Placings in 1999

World Class(WGC) Veiltail champion Rio de Janiero Brazil September,1999

IFGA Snakeskin Varigated Veil Class Champion 1997, 1998

Numerous other awards and first place show results in several other color classes 1994-1999

IFGA Grand Overall Male and Female Runner Up

THE MANY FACES OF LUKE

Luke had almost 30 strains available many of them are IFGA Show Quality,

His Favorite strains included the Albino Varieties.

Blues

AOC Albino

Half Black Blues

Black

Red Albino

Luke’s Fishroom

Mister Smooth

International Best Of Show and First Place Awards

Luke save a place on the guppy show bench up in the sky for us… the world’s best guppy show….

You are missed

Luke Roebuck

COOL HAND LUKE

(The guppy ambassador of the world)