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KOI NET

THE ON-LINE KOI MAGAZINE

With The All England Koi Show having taken place
on the 24th/25th of September and the Show Season
drawing to an end in the UK – there’s one more Koi
Show, the Birmingham and West Midlands Koi Show on
1st and 2nd of October, then we all have to look forward
to next year. But there are other Koi Shows taking place.
In Australia it’s Spring and their Koi Show Season is just
beginning, I’ll try to get some details on that one.

The UK Koi Shows may be over but there are other
events going on, I attended the Koi Water Barn’s two
day event the ‘Festival of Koi’ a couple of weeks ago
and Avenue Fisheries will be holding their annual
Growing on Competition and BBQ which takes place on
Koi Net is published by 1st and 2nd of October and Koi Water Barn is holding
Buzz Digital, Fircroft House, their ‘Feed The Fish’ Auction on 30th of October.
Fircroft Way, Edenbridge,
Kent TN8 6EJ In this issue I wanted to let you know about the Italian
Email: david@buzz-digital.com
Koi Expo which took place in May. The dedicated team
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I was contacted by Koi Net readers in Sri Lanka who are
building up the Ceylon Koi Society and recruiting Koi
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magazine may be reproduced keepers to develop our hobby there.
in whole or part without the
written permission of the One thing on everyone’s mind at the moment is the
publishers. The publisher, rocketing energy costs and Koi Dealers have told me
editor and authors accept no
responsibility in respect of any they have customers who are seriously thinking about
products, goods or services closing down their ponds due to rising energy costs. I
that may be advertised or
referred to in this issue or for know many people will be turning their heating either
any errors and omissions. down low or off during this winter to save energy. Are
The views expressed are not we in for a few power cuts, like the 1970s? Do we need
necessarily those of the
publisher, editor or anyone battery powered back up air pumps?
else, but the author of the
editorial. I have included an article by Evolution Aqua, giving
some examples and ideas of how we can perhaps
Cover photograph
courtesy of KoiQuestion. manage these high energy costs more efficiently.
David Brown
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