Photo Gallery

Looking for ideas for your next koi pond or just fancy having a look around other peoples gardens and filter set ups? What ever you're hoping to see, you'll find the pictures here in our members ponds photo gallery.

Membership

If you're not yet a member but are interested in the wonderful hobby of Koi keeping, then please consider joining, bringing your knowledge and ideas and supporting the Middlesex & Surrey Borders BKKS section.

Articles

As well as the rafts of knowledge held by the club members there are also a large number of stories about how koi keeping has changed over the years, ways to get round common problems, and how people built their ponds.

Latest News

The dates for this years MSB Section closed show have been announced as the 17th and 18th of July.
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Club Meetings

We hold our meeting on the first Thursday of every month and start at about 8.00pm.
You will be most welcome to attend (free for first meeting) and we would hope that you would like to join our club section.

Events Diary

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Articles
Cold Weather Problems
Written by Rod Isted   
Wednesday, 24 February 2010 10:40

During the past few weeks, the enquiries we are getting have changed from the usual warm weather bacterial / parasitic / water borne problems to low temperature related difficulties.

This week, we have encountered a Koi on its side in an above ground vat at Southampton (water temp 2.2deg.C.), visited Milton Keynes with a similar Koi on its side in a shallow pond (water temp measured at 1.0 deg.C) and as we write this article, we are dealing with a 24” ‘sided Koi’ in Cheshire – again almost sub-zero pond water temperatures.

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Spring Preparations
Written by Rod Isted   
Wednesday, 24 February 2010 10:18

This year, we have had a very harsh and severe winter. Unfortunately, some fish, who were in poor condition when they went into the winter, did not survive. Others, who have been weakened by the prolonged cold spell will emerge in the spring with depleted strength and not in the best of health.

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Diary Of A Koi Keeper
Written by Andy Young   

As Chris has been begging the MSB members for articles for the newsletter I thought it might be a good idea to write a koi keepers diary. So I will be writing a month-by-month record of the koi year 2002.

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Flush The Showa
Written by Andy Young   
This is a true story of an incredible Tosai Showa purchased at the dealers show at Milton Keynes in 1996.  The year before we had completed the building of our state of the art all singing all dancing 3200-gallon Koi pond.  The pond was out of level (water never lies!!!) the fact that I had not installed a vortex, and the pond was not heated were all incidentals.
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A Tragic Mistake or Just Bad Luck?
Written by Chris & Deborah Pinchen   

I’m sure you may all remember the last August bank holiday of 2001, the Saturday was a really nice day and Sunday was pouring it down, just typical of the UK Bank Holidays. Well, for myself I shall remember it for a different reason, as you will read on, that Sunday I lost virtually all my beautiful Koi collection, probably my own fault, or was it just a tragic set of circumstances!!!

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