KOI CLUB OF SAN DIEGONEWSLETTERSeptember 2024 |
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KOI CLUB OF SAN DIEGO ANNUAL FRIENDS OF KOI AUCTION
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Dive into the Fin-tastic Koi Auction! Get ready to bring some real treasures into your backyard pond without breaking the bank!
Need to say farewell to some of your precious koi? Find them new water haven to call home at the Auction! |
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WE NEED A SECRETARY! Please help your Club by taking notes once a month at our Steering Committee meeting |
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BIOFILTER CLEANING AT JFGM
Join us on Saturday, September 14th, at 8:00 am to help clean the koi pond’s biofilter. We clean the particulate filter once a week but the biofilter gets cleaned annually each fall. Park behind the Organ Pavilion and walk up the service driveway to the back gate of the Japanese Friendship Garden. Wear comfortable clothing and bring a towel. This is an excellent opportunity to give back to your community and view the inner workings of the pond’s filter system. Any questions, call Linda (619-200-4146) and let her know if you plan on helping. |
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LOOKING FOR GIFT TABLE VOLUNTEER AND GIFT TABLE ITEMS
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. Please help our club by participating. We also need a volunteer to take charge of the table to distribute the tickets, read them off at the end of each meeting and take home any leftover items.
Please tell an officer if you’re interested in helping your club in this way. |
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JAPANESE FRIENDSHIP GARDEN VOLUNTEER NEEDED FOR MONDAY MORNINGS AROUND 8:00 AM
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We are looking for a member who can help us at the Japanese Friendship Garden on Monday mornings around 8:00am.
Before there was a koi pond in the upper Garden area there was grass. That’s all. We suggested for years that we would take care of the filter system if they would build a koi pond which would become the central jewel to the Garden (there was no canyon Garden at the time). Norm Meck of our club designed the pond (with a few modifications) and Voila! we have a koi pond. We have been taking care of and cleaning the filter system since 1999 really as a community service to Balboa Park.
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, who has been overseeing the fishes health since 2005
If interested, call me and leave a message at 619-200-4146 and/or email me at lpluth@cox.net. Linda Pluth
Japanese Friendship Garden Liaison
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September Koi Club of San Diego Meeting
September 8th, 2024 |
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OUR HOST WILL BE
Will Vukmanic
Social hour - 12:00 noon - 1:00 pm
Meeting begins at 1 pm
Please bring a chair and a potluck item
4319 Newport Ave, San Diego, CA 92107
See in Google Maps
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ADDITIONAL UPCOMING EVENTS
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STEERING COMMITTEE MEETING
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Wednesday, September 11th 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
by Lenore Wade, photography by Bill Newell
Will Vukmanic |
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Our host for the September Koi Club meeting, Will Vukmanic, was the luckiest kid in the world growing up. His parents owned a candy store, “Joe’s Candy Cottage” in Manhattan Beach. By the age of 19, he was a master candy-maker. He has had a fascinating life that has given him the chance to travel around the world.
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In school, he was headed for pre-med before he de-railed that plan and moved to San Diego in 1984. Will spent 17 years pounding the pavement as a mail carrier. But his true passion has always been healthy living. He is an herbalist, practicing both eastern and western plant
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medicine. By profession, Will is a retired acupuncturist, but he is also a classy chef who appreciates good food. Will has owned his home in Ocean Beach for about 9 years.
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He has done much work both inside and out to make it special. When you first step into his backyard, you can fully understand Will’s love for nature and the good stuff that comes from that. His yard is not exceptionally large, but he has 21 flourishing fruit trees. Everywhere I turned, I saw a new one. There are 3 avocado trees, orange, lemon, lime, grapefruit, apple, apricot, peach, cherry, and pomegranate trees. There are six types of grape vines and a blackberry bush. He also has a 4 in 1 plum tree which, I believe he said, grows four different types of plums on one tree.
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The pond is 6x9 feet, holds 1000 gallons, and is three-and one-half feet deep. It is home to four much-loved fish. They all have names that you must ask Will about. I will tell you that Gleason is “king of the pond” and knows it!
There is a full-sized shuffleboard game in the works. This means that you need to watch where you walk and be very careful not to step into a golf course hole. |
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Parking should be fairly easy along the street, and you need to walk up about 4 stairs to get to the backyard. If needed, there is a street-level access to the yard through an entry off the alley in the rear…no room for parking, but you can drop off passengers.
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Will is busily working on his front yard where he is installing a 3-circuit labyrinth (maze) along with a great variety of plants to invite the butterflies and birds.
Will also has a live-in tenant named “Miss Jackson”. She is a 23-year-old African grey parrot. She loves her freedom and is not happy to be locked up. She talks and gives kisses and adds great joy to Will’s life.
Don’t forget to bring your chairs and look for the “new” addition to Will’s backyard. See you soon!
Lenore |
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PRESIDENT'S MESSAGEby Matt Rhoades |
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Well; September has arrived and there are many activities on the koi club radar for this month. The month starts off with the club’s general meeting happening on Sunday, September 8 at Will Vukmanic’s house. Then, on the following Saturday, September 14 it’s cleaning of the bio-filter at the Japanese Friendship Garden. Wear old clothes and bring an old towel to wipe your hands on. Come and see yours truly jump into the filter pit and push the wonderful open-cell foam up to waiting hands to be taken out to the grape stomping station. Meet at the back gate to JFG (behind the Organ Pavilion) at 8 AM. This process should be done by 10 AM.
Finally, falling on the next Saturday, September 21st it’s the annual Friends of Koi Auction taking place at San Diego Pond and Garden in Poway. I need a few volunteers to help roll 6-8 tanks down the hill. We’ll be setting up the tanks and filling them Friday afternoon September 20. The tank roll / set-up will take a half hour. I’ll bring the furniture dollies, and I’ll stick around and fill the tanks Saturday. We'll need a few volunteers at 7 AM to help with setting up pop-ups, chairs, and stuff. If you can help with the auction running smoothly; contact me at lomaponder@gmail.com. And if you plan to bring any koi to auction off, please let me know so I can get a koi-headcount for the auction. And when the auction comes around; I’ll probably be asking for a volunteer to help me “car-pool” the koi to the auction.
The August general meeting at Scott Holder’s house in Golden Hill was quite pleasant. It took place under the many shade trees in the back of his yard. His house is a historic house with a wonderful story of the original owner/builder, the different housing set-ups the house took on in the past, and his funny tale of when he purchased it in 2000. Quite the transformation!
His pond was beautiful with a stone bridge cutting the pond in two sections. This pond is home to a good representation of koi, shubunkins, loaches, and water lilies. A very nice pond to view. We had a Q & A session and auctioned off a few pillows designed by Lenore Wade and three koi were brought to be auctioned off from the Jack Story Jr. private collection. I bid and took home a shiro bekko. A great time.
September 8 club meeting will be at a very fun yard of Will Vukmanic’s house.
Until then,
Matt Rhoades |
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Photos from the July Club meeting at the Holder house by Bill Newell
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WELCOME BACK RENEWING MEMBERS!
Ben and Cheryl Adams
Scott Bonelli
Cory and Shannon Burke
Betsy del Pozo
Otto Dobre
Shirley Elswick Jessica Lynch
Tony and Janine Martinez
Bonnie McIlvaine
Demy and Margo Riley
Sherry Tobey
Stu & Brenda Weissman
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KHA KORNERby "Koi Jack" Chapman |
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This is a reprint with minor changes to a 2022 article on this subject. At the end of this article, please see the comment received by me concerning my koi protein article last month from a person I think of as an experienced noted koi nutritionist and koi food manufacturer.
So, last month I started updating my 2014/18/22 koi nutritional series and touched on the number one component of koi food - protein/amino acids. As a reminder, protein provided in the diet is used or excreted from the fish as NH3 or solid waste and never stored within the koi. So to stay with this nutrition theme I figure it’s time to move on to the second most important ingredient in our koi food or lipids, which when ingested and not used can and are stored within our koi in ways that can be harmful to the koi’s overall health and wellness. You also need to keep water quality first in your mind and nutrition somewhat second when it comes to your overall responsibility for caring for your koi. Lipids are considered the most efficient source of energy for fish, period. Per gram, lipids provide a little over twice as much as the energy content of carbohydrates. Lipids (fats & oils) are an important metabolic component of cell membranes and maintenance, essential to certain metabolic processes (hormones to include reproduction), and play a key role in the assimilation of fat soluble vitamins (think A, D, E and K). Studies have shown that carp’s daily dietary requirements are best supported with lipids from the group of triglycerides (fats and oils) and phospholipids that are polyunsaturated in nature and are called Linoleic, Linolenic and the Omega-3’s (EPA & DHA) to support optimum growth and health. Yes, the spelling of the two fatty acids is correct. Note: Saturated fats, such as animal fats, have proven not very useful to koi and fish in general. “Fish oils (e.g., cod liver oil, salmon oil) appear to be the best sources of essential fatty acids, averaging around 25 percent linolenic fatty acids but only around 2.5 percent linoleic fatty acids. In contrast, vegetable oils (e.g., soybean oil and corn oil) are fairly low in linolenic fatty acids (about 4 percent) but high in linoleic fatty acids (52 percent).” Quote from: http://www.fishchannel.com/freshwater-aquariums/fish-food/feeding-koi-and-goldfish.aspx. Articles concerning this specific area for koi supports a 4 to 5 to an 8 to 9 percent crude fat content for koi feeds as does most koi food packaging listing for guarantee analysis (crude fat). Buying commercial brand koi foods that meet the above requirements will certainly meet your koi’s daily dietary needs.
H OW E V E R, as food for thought, I just can’t help myself and I currently employ a couple other concepts from articles I’ve read in the past and practice with my summer daily diet (water temp above 72F) and the second is an augment to the daily diet every 3rd day. I know you’re asking yourself - What kind of crap is he going to try and sell us now???LOL It’s called Protein Sparing (remember last month’s article). This quote comes from when I use to visit Koiphen, and from my printed copy, “Lipids (fats) are an important energy source in Koi diets. Many research studies emphasize the “protein-sparing” effect of lipid supplementation in carp diets. In order to improve the protein-utilization an optimal protein to lipid ratio is necessary. Good results may be obtained when the lipid content is increased slightly over typical inclusion percentages. A diet with higher energy (lipids) brings about lower nitrogen excretion, which is important for maintenance of water quality. Conversely low fat diets force the koi to use some of the protein for energy. Protein used for energy is excreted from the gill as ammonia. So to summarize: if lipids (fats) are available in the diet then they are used by the koi to support its energy needs. This spares the protein from energy maintenance allowing it to be used for growth of bones and muscle. Protein used for growth does not leave the body of the koi; hence lower nitrogenous wastes for the bio-filter to process…” (Posted by: Matt Sklar)
So, how have I increased my koi’s daily lipid intake? My second summer daily diet feeding (sinking) includes edamame beans or soybeans and cooked red yams for Linoleic and Omega-3’s and pellets with spirulina, which has some of all the key lipids for koi. And, yes the red yams at my second daily feeding are a minor source of Omega-3’s. I augment the daily diet every other day to include whole silkworm pupae or Hikari Silkworm Selects for Linolenic and Omega-3’s.
You see there is a sound scientific reason for including silkworm pupae in your koi’s diet. Oh, if you only knew – For the science nerd in us all: There are different breeds of silkworm and what they eat is very important to them and our koi. The larvae of PM and CSR2 breeds when fed on leaves from mulberry trees feed a specific organic based Bio-fertilizer registered higher lipid content 2 and 3 percent respectively. How about this - they (carp/koi and silkworm) have the same lipid requirement for health and growth. (e journal of Biological Sciences, ISSN 2076-9946) And, as a plus the nutritional value of silkworm pupae shows a total protein of 55.6% and a total lipid of 32.2% by dry weight. (J Nult Sci Vitaminoi Tokyo 2010;56(6):446-8). They also are a good source of alpha-glucosidase inhibitors (starch blocker) – if you have type 2 diabetes.
BIG DISCLAIMER- You must be very careful NOT to overdo this as your water quality will suffer as well as your koi’s health. What they eat gets metabolized, stored as fat, or eliminated as waste to the water column, and you could have some conformation issues as in a fat koi and a potential for fatty liver disease!! I will admit I’m happy with my growth and color of most of my koi using the above slightly boosted lipid plan.
ADDITIONAL COMMENT ABOUT LAST MONTH’S KOI PROTEIN ARTICLE
I just never know who might read my articles and find the time in their busy schedule to provide additional information they believe important to add to the subject matter at hand. So not to miss quote, I’ll just pass along the email I got verbatim and a serious thank you goes out to Chris.
Jack – good information, but please remind your readers that protein listed on the package is not always usable. Secondly, lower protein does not necessarily mean less growth and higher protein does not necessarily mean more growth, it’s all about the balance of the overall nutritional package and how the fish can utilize it.
Chris
Chris Clevers
President/COO
Hikari Sales USA, Inc.
As most of you know my KHA Koi Korner Articles are largely a synopsis of my koi hobbyist experiences and a current literature review on the subject matter at hand and are intended to be an informative introduction and encourage the reader’s further investigation.
Along that line, Dr. Eric Johnson DVM has written couple of articles about the protein sources researched for koi assimilation “Protein in Koi and Pond Fish Foods: Function and Favorites” and another on plant protein sources. Bottom line: Fishmeal (types and grades) is the winner and trust me when I say the subject of just fishmeal is for another day and beyond my paygrade as we use to say in the Navy LOL
Everyone stay 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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