July/August 2010, Volume 35, Issue 1
Setting the Standard for 34 Years!
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Wakagoi Koi Show by Steve Gibbins
Join Steve Gibbins as he takes our readers along on his journey to Tosu in the Saga prefecture, home of the location for the All Japan Nishikigoi Promotion Association Young Nishikigoi Show, more commonly known as the Wakagoi Show.The following is just one of the many descriptive passages ...
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Koi Hawaiian Style
Steve Childers, our KOI USA editor, and his wife, Cheryl, sacrificed attendance at a popular southern koi show to go to Hawaii instead for their 25th wedding anniversary. Go figure? For a couple of folks wanting a break from things and a real getaway, the koi hobby seemed to follow them th...
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Pond of the Year – Large DivisionBy Ted Blair and Harvey Filister
Our readers will enjoy this article which is really an account of the journey that we know koi hobbyists make as their interest in koi develops over a period of time. The pond and landscape tend to change along with the...
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Dale Gingerich, AKCA Candidate Judge, presented this excellent paper on the topic of koi skin quality at the judges training session at the AKCA Seminar in Nashville. Dale devised some unique visual...
Tim Waddington provides a description and account of the development of the Matsunosuke bloodline most notably associated with Toshio Sakai of Isawa who is the younger brother of Yamatsu in Mushigame
Artist's Corner appears in many issues of KOI USA. These articles over the years have introduced our readers to artists whom we appreciate for their koi and pond artwork. Linda Montgomery has helped i
Ben Soedjono shines the spotlight on Bill Story, a fiber optics technician by trade, whose is a long-time aquarist, Koi Health Advisor, and pondkeeper. In response to one of Ben's many questions Bill 
One of the highlights each year at the AKCA seminar is the Pond Tour. We wish to thank the Middle Tennessee Koi Club for a wonderful seminar and to its members who so grraciously opend up their yards ...
Those of you who have been fortunate to attend one of Bryan Bateman's "Hoosier Daddy" talks know that there is a lot of humor that goes along with Bryan's accounts of the origins of the many varieties...
