Author: Jeremiah Myers & Latamer P Koi

KOI CLUB OF SAN DIEGO
NEWSLETTER©
March 2019
Volume: 19 Issue 3b
Po Box 22833
San Diego, CA 92192
www.koiclubofsandiego.org

SPECIAL EDITION
SHOW RESULTS AND PICTURES

Ladies and gentlemen and all the koi kichi out there, I present to you the Major Award Winners & Photos from the 32nd Koi Club of San Diego’s 2019 Koi Show

If you would like to view the MAJOR award winners click on the Grand Champion

If you would like to view General Pictures of people at the Show Click on our 2019 KOI PERSON of THE Year GREG RUTH

If you would like to view Vendor pictures and such click on our Major Sponsor Banner

CALENDAR of EVENTS

Committee Meetings

WELCOME NEW MEMBERS

WELCOME RENEWING MEMBERS

General Meetings

http://www.koiclubofsandiego.org/

Upcoming Events 2018

Show time is swiftly approaching

The Original KCSD Koi Club Facebook page is up and running. Just enter Koi Club of San Diego in the friend search at the top of your Facebook page to friend it.

Inquiries concerning our
Treasurer’s report
should be directed to:
treasurer@koicsd.org

OFFICERS PHONE EMAIL
PRESIDENT: Al Pierce (619) 427-9008 president@koicsd.org
First VP-PROGRAM: Vacant program@koicsd.org
Second VP-VENUE: Matt Rhoades (619)517-8270 venue@koicsd.org
SECRETARY: Phyllis Spoor (858) 292-4857 secretary@koicsd.org
TREASURER: Dr. Jessica Lynch (619) 3 70-8045 treasurer@koicsd.org
Koi Person of The Year 2019– Greg Ruth
APPOINTED OFFICERS
SHOW CHAIRMAN 2019: Matt Rhoades (619)517-8270 show@koicsd.org
Webmaster-: Jerry Myers (619)405-8908 webmaster@koicsd.org
MEMBERSHIP: Greg Ruth (858) 395-7882 membership@koicsd.org
PUBLICITY: Mike Poynor (619) 295-5361 publicity@koicsd.org
NEWSLETTER: Jerry Myers (619) 405-8908 newsletter@koicsd.org
AKCA REPRESENTATIVE: Scotty Yee (714)943-3906 akcarep@koicsd.org
CLUB HISTORIAN: Dr. Galen Hansen (619) 440-2035 historian@koicsd.org
PROPERTY MANAGER: Al Pierce (619) 427-9008 property@koicsd.org
LIBRARIAN AND KOI HEALTH ADVISOR:
Koi Jack Chapman (619) 669-0490 health@koicsd.org
FINANCIAL REVIEW CHAIRMAN:
VACANT finance@koicsd.org
CORRESPONDENCE SECRETARY:
Shirley Elswick (619) 222-9825 correspondence@koicsd.org
JAPANESE FRIENDSHIP GARDEN LIAISON:
Linda Pluth (619) 200-4146 jfg@koicsd.org
MEMBERS AT LARGE
Norm Meck John Svelan Bill Thompson Tamsie Pierce
HELPING HANDS
WATER QUALITY: Jack Chapman (619) 669-0490 waterquality@koicsd.org
KOI HEALTH ADVISOR: Jack Chapman (619) 669-0490 health@koicsd.org
PROGRAM SUGGESTIONS: : Matt Rhoades (619)517-8270 program@koicsd.org
TO HOST A MEETING: Matt Rhoades (619)517-8270 venue@koicsd.org
TO SUBMIT AN ARTICLE: Linda Pluth (619) 200-4146 input@koicsd.org

Notes from the Board
February 2019
Phyllis Spoor
Fun Filled Koiing

Vice President of Venue — Matt Rhoades reported that the February meeting would be at the home of Victor & Linda Valadez. Parking will be tight, and it is recommended to park on adjoining street (Carolina).
Vice President of Program position is still open, but Matt reported that Galen Hansen will be giving the program at the February meeting on how to select koi to bring to the show, and to include the judging process itself — how koi are judged, what judges are looking for.
Membership — Greg Ruth reported that there are 112 currently active members and suggested we repeat the special deal we had last year at the show for new memberships and renewals.
Newsletter — Jerry Myers reported that the March Newsletter will be coming out early because of the show date, so please expedite your column submissions.
Webmaster — Jerry reported that he is still playing catch up on the website. John Svelan and Greg Ruth both have admin access to the Website. Jerry distributed copies of the show booklet in a draft form. It was requested that the $ amounts of donations to each award be eliminated, leaving only who sponsored.
AKCA Rep — Scotty Yee reported that AKCA is soliciting a host for the 2020 AKCA Wet Lab and business meeting. Since we hosted in 2018 with a wet lab the general feeling was to have another club take the offer. Perhaps Inland Koi Society.
Publicity — John Svelan has printed up show posters and mailed 10 to local and Orange County Koi Dealers.
Japanese Friendship Garden — Linda Pluth reported nothing new to report.
KHA — Koi Jack reported that he has been receiving calls for a few more sick fish this winter. He also reported that there are infected fish coming out of Japan this year even though they have been treated.
Show report — The Walk through at the Activity Center, Friday, February 15 at 12 noon. Friday night dinner sponsorship was brought up. Nijikawa is donating $3,000 to be used where desired. Dr. Bob Adler will pick up the tanks from Inland Koi Society. The pins have arrived and trophies are ordered. The insurance for the fairgrounds will be done once Del Mar is contacted to confirm wording. There are adequate numbers of fish bags on hand. Jack Chapman will take care of the chemicals. Buck Buckles will pick up Oxygen. At this moment, 48 show tanks are proposed, however only 20 sold as of February 6, with 10 more probable. It was suggested that we might run the show with only 30 tanks. It was pointed out that the wooden ramp protecting drain lines from vehicle traffic between show tanks and building exterior would affect how the tanks are laid out if there are fewer tanks. David and Debbie Young contacted the club and volunteered to help during the judging. Proposed and passed to provide 2 tickets to the banquet to thank them for their assistance. The Flowers will help out with the second benching team, run the backup computer program and banquet slide show. They too will be provided two free banquet tickets. Hikari will provide the chemicals for tank treatment. Signs will be generated to label tanks “treated” and NOT treated” for the vendors’ tanks. The late arriving fish from Hawaii on Friday night will not be admitted unless we have pictures and sizes of the fish before 5 PM Friday, February 1 for benching and computer entry.
Adequate award bags, tissue and labels will be on hand. There were concerns about KHV infection from visiting clubs. They will be observing our sanitizing procedures between benching and judging — sanitizing both hands and equipment. We will be demonstrating to the visitors so they may take the procedures back to their home clubs for their own shows. John Svelan has been following up on obtaining the six judges biographies and has submitted them to Jerry for the booklet. If we cannot find drivers to pick them up, it was proposed and approved to reimburse them for an Uber ride from the airport to the hotel. John and Buck have reserved two 26’ Trucks to pick up for set up and return equipment to the shed and transport hard tanks. The order for show booklets will be for 400 this year. The show hotel, Holiday Inn Express has no more rooms available for the show price of $109. Our contract was for 20 rooms and we maxed out at 23.
New Business —The March Steering Committee Meeting will be held on Wednesday, February 27 as the regular date in March would be immediately after the show.
Proposed and approved to purchase 6 friendship awards for our members to use when they visit other clubs’ shows.
Questions on Judges’ gifts from the club.
Purchase of Items for the general meeting drawings from Cindy Bader of Koi International Organisation.
Talk of treatment for flukes that will not kill hi fin sharks.
Meeting was adjourned at 8:30 PM
(Submitted by Tamsie Pierce in the absence of Phyllis Spoor)

KHA KORNER by “KOI” Jack Chapman
RAIN WATER

So I was at a loss for a subject to talk about this month and was working inside due to the heavy RAIN – So guess what I decided to write about: Yes RAIN WATER.
Before I do that – I’m told this will be sent out just before our 32th Annual Koi show and I hope to see you all as much needed volunteers and or as entrants bringing your favorite koi to share with us all. And in advance - I want to thank all of you who contribute to this year’s show.
So what about rain water and your pond?? Got some general thoughts and not in any order of importance.
You do not want rain water to run into your pond in any way--off a roof or from a hill side especially for what it may pick up on the way to your pond. Good way to have a toxin introduced to your pond and can affect water clarity. Change to water clarity may be first sign that you got something other than just the rain water.
Remember the smaller the volume of pond water the larger the possible negative effects of copious amounts of rain water could be to your water quality.
You should have a pond journal with your past water quality parameters recorded.
Rain water normally has a pH of 5 to 6 so it’s soft water (acidic) depending on where you live in the good old USA. SO – at 2PM on 2/14/19 in El Cajon CA with a heavy rain falling collected in a big clean koi tub the pH was 6.21. I also checked the GH or hardness of the rain water and got little green at 2 drops or 35.8 – can you say very soft water. So one could expect a drop in pH depending on the volume of rain water.
Now don’t forget rain water is devoid of calcium carbonate as the KH was zero at one drop and this will affect your water chemistry and further lower your pH to a point it could affect your biofilter bacteria – stops working around 40ppm and want pond to not be less than say 80ppm. Oh, guess I should remind you your KH reading is the pond alkalinity measurement but you knew that.
As one might expect ammonia NH3, Nitrite NO2, and Nitrate NO3 were all zero.
The oxygen levels were a nice 11.9 to 12.1ppm, which brings me to the unknown, as rain water forms and falls through the air it picks up the STUFF present in the air which it is falling through – so the existing air pollution becomes part and parcel to the rain falling into your pond. The pH is a direct result of this not to mention any nearby industry air pollution or agriculture spraying that can be found in rain water. A club member who will remain nameless lives a little uphill and directly across the street from a large cement plant – the normal air currents passed directly over his home –you could on occasion taste and smell the cement components in the air and his KH and GH were CRAZY high. SO solid roof cover (no run off issues) over pond as shade cloth would have worked until the first rain (I’ll let you figure that out LOL) and increased water changes and chose not to do continuous water changes.
After a hard rain or over an inch do some water quality testing and remember the solution to pollution is dilution – love it!
Lastly, when you have a pond liner you have to make sure rain water or yard water does NOT collect between the wall and liner as it will cause bubbles and collapses. They’re no fun to deal with.
Just a few random thoughts as it is raining hard and my pool has started to overflow to the patio drain. Overflow drain in pond working great, thank you.
r/koi jack

SHOW
SUPPORTERS

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Entrant Package (PDF Format)

Vendor Packet (PDF Format)

Click the picture for their web site

Interesting links

Click poster for ZNASOCAL info

Pictures of Koi Ulcers

https://www.kodamakoifarm.com/doitsu-variety-beauty-no-scales

https://cafishvet.com/2018/03/20/mycobacteria-in-fish/

https://cafishvet.com/tag/dr-jessie-sanders/

http://drjohnson.com

http://www.koivet.com/a_koi_pond_nitrites.html

I have decided to link both the SmugMug accounts of Bill Newell & Phyllis Spoor to the newsletter and the website. Both of our club members take fantastic pictures of everything you can think of all over the world. For Bill’s SmugMug click his picture. For Phyllis click her picture.

On behalf of the Koi Club of San Diego I want to thank both of these extraordinary photographers for their continued effort to capture the spirit of club members during our gatherings. From the Ponder Profiles, to monthly meetings, Koi Rescues and special events, Phyllis Spoor and Bill Newell are always ready at a moments notice and we thank you!

Bill Newell Photography People, Places & Social Events

San Diego Pond & Garden is
NOW OPEN at their new location.
This is your one stop shop for all pond related items. Filters, pumps, lights, fittings and of course fish. They have way to many items for me to list them all so stop by and check out the new digs.
Club members get a 10% discount
This is also going to be the new home for our SHOW TANK storage.
A BIG THANK YOU to San Diego Pond and Garden
12257 Old Pomerado Rd, Poway 92064.

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