23rd Aug 2009 - Sales of 5 x 3.5 x 2 ft Fibreglass Tank! (SOLD)

As some of you have already know, I am taking my part-time study and has limited time to take care of my koi.
I will be selling my 5ft(L) x 3.5ft(W) x 2ft(H) fibreglass tank including a 2ft canister pre-filter, filter box, pump and filter media as a whole package.

You just need to set them up and you can run this system 6 months WITHOUT cleaning (Condition - 12 small koi up to 20cm, feeding 1 table spoon per day). Contact me at 96375028 if you are interested.

10 April 2009 - A Free Classified ads for us to Buy and Sell!

Time flies! It's almost 3 months I have not updated this webpage.

I just have a lesson on E-commence and that reminds me of the Classified Ads of the good old days.
We used to surf in 2 very popular free classified website. 1st one is Pacific Internet Classified and the other one is SingNet Classified Ads.
Unfortunately, Pacific Internet Classified Ads stopped providing this service and SingNet Classified started charging users for advertising in their Classified website for a very low fee and limited to only SingNet subscriber. I still posted some of my koi for sales ads during those time.
But after sometime, SingNet also close down their Classified Ads service.
Therefore I hope to create this Classified.nskoi.com to bring back the good old free classified ads service to the community.
Pls feel free to register and help me to spread the words so that this website will be a success.
Pls also give me some feedback through email so that I can improve on it.
Thanks!

17th January 2009 -  Budget Showa Grow-out Event Auction and Judging

After 6 months of grow-out, we have finally come to the end of the event.

It was a bright and sunny afternoon and about 6 hobbists turn up for this interesting event.
We started off with the Koi Auction starting from $1.
4 of the 5 kois were auctioned away with price from $5 to $40. Congratulation to the winners.
After the auction, we proceeded with the koi judging. Each hobbist is given 6 points to vote for 1st (3 pts), 2nd (2 pts) and 3rd (1 pt) place of their choice.
It was a close fight between SG2 and SG13. But at last, SG2 wins by a margin of just 1 point ahead of SG13 (10 pts vs 9 pts). Congratulation to the winner - Wang.

Finally, thanks again to all the hobbists who have supported this event!
Wishing all a very Happy and Fruitful Lunar New Year!!
Click on the picture on the right to see more pictures of this event.

4th January 2009 -  End of Budget Showa Grow-out Event on 17th Jan 09

>Wishing all Koi hobbists a good year ahead!! Time flies and we have come to the end of the Showa Grow-out event.
We'll judge them together on 17th Jan 2009, 2.00pm. Address will be sms to all participants.

Those who wish to be judges are also welcome to join us.

There will be an auction for those 5 koi not taken up with starting bid at only $1, so pls sms me at 96375028 for address if you wish to participate.
We'll do the auction first, so that those auctioned koi can also be in the competition.

Lastly, thanks to all who participated in this event especially my partner Mr Tay for letting us to use his pond for this event!

22nd July 2008 - Budget Showa Grow-out event for beginners !

Yishun Koi House is glad to bring you the Budget Showa Grow-out event.
These baby showas (12cm~16cm) are carefully selected from off-springs of Dainichi parent kois.

There are 20 babies selected for this event. Each koi will cost $100 include 6 months stay in our partner's concrete pond.

Pictures of the 20 Showa are posted in this link.
Reservation can be done through sms on 1st come 1st served basis. Pls read the Terms and Conditions by clicking the link.

Limited stock, start ordering to avoid disappointment !!

3-4th May 2008 - 1st Asia Cup Koi Show 2008

The 1st Asia Cup Koi Show 2008 will be opened to public at Singapore Expo, Hall 3 on 3rd May 2008 (9.00am-9.00pm) and 4th May 2008 (9.00am-6.00pm).
This will be the largest Koi in Asia outside of Japan ever organised. Visitors will be able to see top quality world-class koi from Japan, Taiwan , China, Hong Kong, Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia Indonesia, Brunei and Singapore.

There are about 300 vinyl tanks to be placed in the show ground for the 1500 koi. This will be the highest number of koi and tanks that the Koi Club of Singapore has ever organized since its inception in 1989.

For those who missed the show, you can click on this link to see the slide show.

03 Mar 2008 - 4th Grow Out Event in Singapore

There is a Grow-out event happening now in Singapore.
This event is organised by a die-hard koi hobbist.
It would like very interesting for those who want to see how koi with good potential grow out in 6 months time.

I am not participating but my top picks are the 3 on the right.
Selection date is 9th Mar 08(Sunday) 3pm.
Detail of the event can be found in this link.

7 Feb 2008 - Koi in 5 Ft Glass Tank

A Happy and Prosperous Lunar New Year to all the Koi hobbists!!

Majority of us in Singapore stay in highrised HDB flats or Private Condo. Keeping Koi in flats can be quite difficult as fibretank can be quite unsightly unless you have a becony.

What about keeping Koi in a glass tank? This could be a viable alternative. Check here on how I set-up a 5 Ft glass tank to keep these gracious creatures!

9th Dec 2007 - Vitamins for Koi

Some Koi hobbists fed back to me that they add different fruit juice to the koi pellets and observed very positive effect. Most observed that their koi are more active. One of them even mentioned that his koi completely recovered from fin rot after adding different type of fruit juice to the pellets. Here's the original article on how to prepare koi pellets with Barley green juice. You can apply the same procedure with using fruit juice instead.

25th Sep 2007 - Constant Dripping with Membrane Filter

Constant Dripping is a common practice among koi hobbists in Singapore.
It has many good effects but also come at a cost.
Click here to read more about it.

7th Aug 2007 - Download Free Koi Video Sample !!

>Nishikigoi.TV is a new online video Koi magazine that brings approximately 40 minutes of high quality downloadable Koi videos to your PC each month. It covers major Koi shows in Japan, the UK and Europe, featured Koi ponds and Koi collections, interviews with hobbyists, dealers and breeders, Koi appreciation and judging and much more. Each monthly issue will also include accompanying text and photographs. Register here for free and click on "View Video Sample here" to download 2 free Koi Video !!

10 May 2007 - News from Pan Intercorp - USA

Saturday, May 12, 2007 ~ Starts @ 1:00pm pst

Join Pan Intercorp's 20th Anniversary celebration on May 12th @ 1:00pm with an in depth Seminar featuring guest speaker Kentaro Sakai from Sakai of Hiroshima. Mr. Sakai will be giving intimate insights on Jumbo Tosai and the Rose Kohaku Bloodline that have come to dominate koi shows the world over.

Participants will have the opportunity to obtain one of the Certified Offspring of the Grand Champion of the All Japan Show that Mr Sakai has personally selected for this occasion.

Seminar attendees will also receive a complimentary copy of the Sakai Fish Farm 2005-2006 bloodline book that charts the genealogy and performance of these phenomenal Kohaku.

6 May 2007 - Koi Pond Filtration System - Updated

I had written an article on Koi pond filtration system quite some time back. You can find this article in the "Links" page.
Some of you had fed back to me to improve on this article by adding some photos.
So I had re-work on this article and added some photos to make it easier to understand.
I hope this short article will help those who are begining on this interesting journey of koi keep and those who want to strt but hesitated due to the lack of understanding in this topic.
Click on the picture on the right to access this article.
Pls give me your feed back so that I can further improve on it. Thanks.