Win tickets to upcoming show Koi Show
We will be choosing 20 lucky winners to attend the annual popular Koi Show taking place in Shongweni in July.
PRIZE winning koi keeper and chairman of the KwaZulu-Natal Koi Society, Gerard Loumeau plans to enter at least 25 koi in this year’s Koi Show.
“My biggest koi is about one metre long,” added the koi enthusiast. Loumeau has been keeping koi for more than 25 years at his Umgeni Park home and even has a generator installed to keep his pond’s filtration system running smoothly during bouts of load shedding.
“I have to monitor the pond carefully. If the power is out for longer than six hours then I connect a generator to pump and circulate oxygen through the water. The koi can die if you leave the pump off. I would say they would die within approximately 12 hours if there was no filtration, depending on the temperature of the water, the number of fish in the pond and the quality of the water. If there is a lot of debris in the water, that lowers the water quality. I have a fully automated system but prior to that I used to backwash every weekend,” he said.
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While keeping koi can be a pricey business, Loumeau said there are ways to keep koi on a budget.
“It’s not always expensive, you can keep reasonably cheaper commercial koi or more expensive fish imported from Japan. You don’t really need a lot of space either, you can build a smaller pond of 2000 litres. Obviously the bigger the pond is, the bigger sized pumps you need to keep the water circulation going. The ruling is that you can keep a fish up to one metre per thousand litres, even if that is a collective length divided by a few fish,” he said.
Koi keepers who are keen to enter the Koi Show to be held at The Durban Shongweni Club on Saturday, 20 July and Sunday, 21 July. Contact Loumeau: absoluteasphalt@vodamail.co.za.
A total of 20 lucky Northglen News and koi enthusiasts readers can each win a pair of tickets to the show.
To stand a chance of winning fill in the simple form below:
Winners will be chosen via random draw.
Competition Closes 9 July 2019 at Midnight.
Winners will be contacted by telephone on Wednesday, 10 July.
Prizes will need to be collected from The Highway Mail at 115 Escom Road New Germany.
Terms and Conditions – https://www.citizen.co.za/north-glen-news/competitions/
