KOI CLUB OF SAN DIEGONEWSLETTERNovember 2024 |
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TIME TO PASS ALONG SOME GOOD NEWS
Our own Scotty Yee bagged up two of his koi and placed them in large cooler transfer containers and drove (roughly 7 hours) to the 44th Annual Central California Koi Society Koi Show in Fresno California on 28/29 September 2024. The results were simply FANTASTIC!! |
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CONGRATULATIONS SCOTTY!!! |
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KOI LOOKING FOR NEW HOMES If you are interested in any of these koi, the Club is accepting re-homing donations. Please contact Matt at lomaponder@gmail.com |
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21" Kawarigoi, 19" Kohaku long fin, 18" Sanke long fin, 18" Hi Utsuri LF |
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EQUIPMENT FOR SALE If you are interested in any of these items, please contact Matt at lomaponder@gmail.com |
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Pentair SuperFlo VS pump
Ultima II 10000 gallon filter -
Height w: base 45", Diameter 24" Min flow rate 5000 gallons, Max flow rate 7500 gallons.
5-7 cu ft of Ultima media
Asking $1500 / OBO
Seller in San Diego
No delivery - you pick up.
Lomaponder@gmail.com |
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VOLUNTEERS NEEDED!
We need a Secretary to take notes once a month at our Steering Committee meeting.
Gift table volunteer to distribute the tickets, read them off at the end of each meeting and take home any leftover items.
Japanese Friendship Garden volunteer to help with filter cleaning Mondays at 8 am. We would appreciate any help even if you can’t commit to every Monday. Being able to lift 35-40 pounds is necessary to open each section of the deck where the filter is located. AND you get to pick the brain of our KHA/Show Entrant Chairman, Koi Jack. If interested, please email Linda lpluth@cox.net.
Item donations are needed for the gift table. Anyone can bring an item, koi related or not, for the opportunity table. It’s so much fun to end our meetings on a positive and fun activity. Plants, books, jewelry, unused wedding gifts, Aunt Millie’s old vase anything that someone else might like. Although we no longer sell tickets, your donations help to pay our monthly bills as well as bills for our auction and annual koi show.
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November Koi Club of San Diego Meeting
Sunday, November 10th, 2024 |
OUR HOSTS WILL BE
Cory and Shannon Burke
Social hour - 12:00 noon - 1:00 pm
Meeting begins at 1 pm
Special Speaker - Michael Evingham from Natural Current
MESSAGE FROM THE HOST
Hello fellow Koi-ers. The November meeting is shaping up to be a good one. It will be at my house (pure coincidence) and we will be having a guest speaker. Michael Evingham from Natural Current will be speaking about and demonstrating the capabilities of one of his solar pond pumps. I, for one, want to know about these as a replacement for my pump when my current one ... um ... expires. Also being that it's the November meeting, I will be smoking a turkey on my Traeger to share. Maybe we can drive the potluck in a Thanksgiving meal direction. I look forward to seeing ALL of you there. There will also be a new game (like the "Who drove the farthest" one at the October meeting).
Cory Burke
Please bring a chair and a potluck item
302 Alpine Trail Road, Alpine, CA 91901
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ADDITIONAL UPCOMING EVENTS
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STEERING COMMITTEE MEETING
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Wednesday, November 13th at 7:00 pm (earlier if you are ordering food) ALL MEMBERS WELCOME!
Dennys
2691 Navajo Road El Cajon, CA 92020
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PONDER PROFILE Cory and
Shannon Burke by Lenore Wade, photography by Julia Schriber |
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Coming to San Diego from Colorado in 1991 changed the life of Cory Burke. Not only did his time in the Navy keep him busy, but he also found the love of his life, Shannon. They married in 1995 and lived in Lakeside for about 19 years in the same area where Shannon grew up. Their daughter, Jada, was born at Grossmont Hospital in 2004. She is currently at Texas A&M studying Industrial Engineering and plans on designing roller coasters (this absolutely fascinated me!).
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They also have 2 dogs who will let you know they are an important part of all that goes on in their hill-top world, and their job is to make sure no one messes with the koi pond. Dublin is a 3-year-old Saint Bernard and Laddie is a 13 year-old German Shepherd. Cory is in Graphic Design and owns his own |
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business, and delights in getting to work from home two days each week. Shannon is a CFO for a construction company.
Cory has had koi for about 20 years. Before they bought this new house, his pond was in the front yard in a neighborhood where the homes were closely built. In their dream to move, Shannon laid out 3 prerequisites: no neighbors, must have a view, and it needed to be bigger than what they had. Cory’s list was about the same, but needed to include room to build a pond. |
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Their hilltop home fits every one of those! The view is enormous, and although they have neighbors, they are not close. Cory knew the lot had the perfect spot for the pond he wanted built. When they moved in five years ago, he started designing the one that fit his dreams.
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The waterfall cascades down a hill into a 3,500-gallon pond that is the happy home to 26 koi. Like most of us who have ponds, Cory had to deal with problems and lost several of his
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favorite fish to pine-cone disease. Most of the new fish have come from our club auctions these past two years. Be sure to ask him his feelings about a local crane!!!
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Cory gave me directions for the easiest way to find the house in Alpine. I will state them simply and then you can Google them for yourselves.
Take Hwy 8 to Tavern Rd, turn right and go to South Grade and turn right again. In about 1.3 miles you need to turn left onto Alpine Heights Rd and follow that road as it meanders along. Turn left again when you reach Alpine Trails and follow that to 302. BEWARE of the road conditions at the bottom of the hill. The heavy rain took its toll on a section about 200 yards long. There is enough parking at the top of the driveway for 12-15 cars. If necessary, you can park on the right-hand side of the street. Those members using wheelchairs or canes will have no problems, but be sure to park up top. There will also be parking available at the neighbor's directly to the right. I look forward to seeing you on November 10th. |
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PRESIDENT'S MESSAGEby Matt Rhoades |
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Fall has come to our community and my koi are slowing in their movements; except when it comes to their eating frenzy. I have them eating wheat germ feed 2-3 times a day awaiting their Thanksgiving Day of baked yams. They’ll “gobble gobble” them up in minutes leaving just yam chum.
The October meeting at Tony and Janine Martinez’ house had an excellent turn-out of members. Koi Jacks discussion on Goromo/ Koromo got me thinking of searching for that special buds goromo (yes Koi Jack - I have hard water and I’m going to take advantage of it). Tony spoke on his plans on expanding his filtration and on his plans to go to Niigata to purchase koi. Good luck with both endeavors.
The December meeting will be a Christmas party at the home of Frank and Nancy Cannizzaro in Tierra Santa. Usually there is a White Elephant gift exchange. Our resident Santa will be his jovial self-handing out the wrapped surprises. It is a lot of fun. See you then.
Stay koi kichi, my friends.
Matt
Koi mechanic |
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October Meeting Photos by Bill Newell
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WELCOME NEW MEMBERS! Mark Sussman
WELCOME BACK RENEWING MEMBERS!
Mike and Pam Brito
Utpal and Parul Parikh
Colin and Lynda Patterson
Fritz and Christy Hinrichs
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KHA KORNERby "Koi Jack" Chapman |
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Fall
Season in Southern California
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Been a year since I wrote about this subject so as a reminder, I’ve updated the last article from September 2023 So, we are now dealing with fall season and for us the coast area will see lower temps sooner and we inland will still have some warmer days late into fall. Good time to sit with your koi and evaluate what you and your fish have been doing for the past seven or eight months. What were your goals or what were you hoping to see happen during this past spring and summer season? Even if you did not have any goals, it’s a good time to review what has happened with your pond system and your koi (really). Even if you only wanted the status quo or nothing bad to happen – so what happened and what were you doing to maintain your pond and koi??? This is when I put my shameless plug in for you to have a pond journal even if you only write in it a couple times a year!!! It’s even a good time to think about what would you like to see happen next year (pond and koi)??? So now that you’re out by your pond and making notes (past and future) and maybe on your second drink LOL it’s time to get the pond and koi ready for your winter season. Paying attention to your pond and koi during the fall/winter season better prepares your pond and your koi for an uneventful spring. For us with mild winters, I like to advocate that a good filter cleaning (SEP-OCT) is an excellent way to prepare your pond and koi for the winter season. Your koi’s immune system is charged fully with less chance of having sick koi from the unavoidable stuff (bacteria/particulate matter/critters) you will add to the water column from a good cleaning. Good time to have less junk (detritus – decomposing organic compounds DOC) in your filter for the bad bugs to winter over on and explode their populations in early spring with possible resulting sick koi (Aeromonas alley or even parasites). This year proved to be especially bad for both internal and external bacterial infections (Aeromonas – hole in the side infections) with several club members losing one or more koi to include the Japanese Friendship Garden (JFG). With winter comes leaves and you want to always keep them out of your pond and filter system as their decomposition are the hotels - for the bad bugs. This mass of DOC also erodes water quality. If you have water plants this is when they die back so work at removing the dead plant material!! Time to think about reducing the quantity of food and going to an all season or wheatgerm based food. When my pond water hits 55F I’ll begin feeding every other day and at 52F twice a week and quit at 50F. Koi articles recommend stop feeding at 50F and I have a friend with nice koi who stops at 55F. Water temp down equal’s koi metabolism down (cut in half for each 17 degrees Fahrenheit) - so the koi do not have the capability to process high levels of protein. Unprocessed food passes out the vent and provides high value nutrition for the bad bugs during winter giving you a larger base population come aeromonas alley in the spring (BIG TIME). A lot of our local area ponds do not go below 47/48F during winter and aeromonas does not go dormant until around 39F. Koi get larger each year and we have been known to add koi from time to time so it’s a good time to review filtration and bio-chamber capacity to keep up with the ammonia/nitrite pollution demand. Don’t forget DOC adds additional ammonia to the water column. Remember we have recirculating systems that have to refresh the water our koi pollute with each breath and poop. NO – twice the size does not = twice the pollution. Think 3 to 4 times the pollution due to body mass. Adding bio-filter capacity in the fall is a good idea as it will be on line (up and running) for spring or you could consider a reduced fish load (no joke). Just because it’s wintertime does not mean your pond maintenance goes on vacation.
For your consideration - Nicholas Saint-Erne DVM and author of “Advance Koi Care” has recommended that autumn (pg119) “A 2-week course of 0.3% salt is a good preventive treatment against protozoal parasite.” He also offers a 3-dose preventive treatment of formalin/malachite green solution. Erik Johnson DMV has also supported the use of salt against certain koi parasites in his book “Koi Health and Disease”. And I would add you review the use of potassium permanganate and yes, I use it on day 1-3 and 5 after I complete the fall cleaning of my bio chamber. While not wanting to get my butt caught in controversy and I’ve not talked to Doctor Nick or Erik but due to publishing date of their books and several later anecdotal remarks from Japanese breeders and dealers in USA regarding increasing resistance to salt from parasites coming out of Japan – I have gone to 2 or 3 weeks at 0.4% for preventive salt treatments in the spring (Feb/Mar) for both my pond and the Japanese Friendship Garden for the past several years. My salt pond treatment is normally done AFTER our annual koi show as salt results in additional slime coat which can DULL the sharpness in the appearance of color and reflection of Gin Rin YUK. Our 2025 koi show is at the end of January so my 2025 salt treatment will begin about the last week of February or first week of March around a pond temp of 57/58 (F). Lastly, I would only remind you that the more serious treatments for koi parasites are in my opinion reserved for microscope confirmed infections of specific identified parasites.
To end on a fun note - fall is the time to review your koi collection and if pond space/koi count available it is the perfect time to review the fall season (Oct/Nov) new koi arriving at your favorite koi dealership. Remember red is considered best as a primary color when viewing your koi population as a group in your pond. It does not matter if you want a $20/200/2,000-dollar koi or just a fun day with a few koi friends you just can’t beat the excitement of looking at all the new koi each year. Looking forward to seeing everyone at our next backyard club koi meeting, but in the interim be safe and healthy.
r/koi jack |
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PLEASE VISIT OUR APPAREL SHOP!THANK YOU JAMIE KANES FOR YOUR BEAUTIFUL DESIGNS! |
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Koi Person of The Year 2024 Dean Strasser
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First VP-Program: Cory Burke |
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Second VP-Venue: Ben Adams |
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Newsletter editor/ Webmaster: Julia Schriber |
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Membership Chairman: Jill Leach |
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Koi Health Advisor/
Librarian: Jack Chapman |
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Club Historian: Dr. Galen Hansen |
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Property Manager: Al Pierce |
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Correspondence Secretary: Shirley Elswick |
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Japanese Friendship Garden Liaison: Linda Pluth |
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Koi Health Advisor/
Water Quality: Jack Chapman |
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To Host a Meeting: Ben Adams |
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To Submit an Article: Linda Pluth |
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Program/Activities Suggestions: Cory Burke |
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