KOI COMMUNITY Koi Whether your club is UK-based
ednesday April 21 saw the Crouch Valley Koi Club have their monthly meeting. The night was scheduled
for a members’ open chat. These nights are Community or international, please send in your club and society news, reviews or great days out
to: Mark Nuttall, Koi Carp Magazine, Alexander House, Ling Road, Tower Park, Poole, Dorset BH12 4NZ Email:
mark@koi-carp.com or tel: 0800 048 8882
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always a good favourite with the club as it gives the members another good opportunity to discuss various items related to their koi, ponds and gardens.
The basis of these open forum chat nights is to have a top table panel which usually consists of willing club members to answer a variety of questions that the general members ask. The great thing about this is the variety of the questions that appear from club members and it is great to see such a variety of knowledge from the panel. With a packed hall once more of over 60 members in attendance, the night was non stop, with questions about the dreaded blanket weed appearing once more, items on koi health were discussed, along with protein issues and DOC build up. It was also good to hear a very good debate about the various bamboo varieties that are appearing in gardens around the UK. My thanks go to the panel of ‘experts’ and to all that turned up. I look forward to seeing all the members again soon at the Crouch Valley Koi Auction on May 9. For more details visit
www.crouchvalleykoi.co.uk. Graham McCartney
BKKS & Crouch Valley Koi Club member
17th InterKoi (KLAN) Koi Show T
he 17th InterKoi, aka the Koi Lovers of the Lower Rhineland (KLAN), Koi Show took place on
April 24 and 25. No less than 780 koi in 122 vats made for their largest show to date. In addition another piece of history was made with a combined Japanese and European team of judges. Although InterKoi has always assisted in the training of European ZNA judges they normally reserve the judging for Japanese judges from ZNA HQ. This year those judges’ appearances were threatened by the flight ban caused by the volcanic ash cloud and so KLAN invited European judges as back-up.
Fortunately the flight ban was removed
and the Japanese judges made it and both teams presided over the event. This year’s Grand Champion was a
Maruten Kohaku named Cleopatra II – a six-year-old Kohaku bred by Sakai Fish Farm of 87cm, owned by hobbyist Andre Verpoucke from Belgium. It was the first time that Andre had showed his koi at the InterKoi. Supreme Champion was another
Sakai Kohaku, which was five years old and 89cm and owned by Harry van der Hout who is also from Belgium. InterKoi has two Jumbo Champions, one from the Go-Sanke classes (Jumbo A) and the other from the remaining classes (Jumbo B). Jumbo A was won
by an 84cm Sakai Sanke entered by Jean Hoorne, a regular InterKoi exhibitor and also from Belgium. And Jumbo B was awarded to a German hobbyist, Thorsten Nagelsky, another first timer with a huge HikariMuji measuring 101cm long. This koi was bred by Marusei (Niigata), often just referred to as Hirasawa. Our Japanese judges, Tomio
Motada, Sadayuki Suzuki and Katsuyoshi Saka are familiar faces in Europe having judged in Belgium and Holland already. European judges Louis Vanreusel, Dirk de Witte and Toen Feyen are familiar faces in the UK, judging here at Swanley and Hayling Island.
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