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GregBickal
03-16-2005, 10:13 AM
Saturday, March 12th, Tom Graham from Koi USA Magazine was in Cedar Rapids. He was doing a presentation in Ames on Monday, and came up and did a presentation for our pond club.

A few of from the pond club gave him a tour of some of the ponds in the area (most were frozen over of course), and also a visit to Kloubec's Koi Farm.

The in-flight entertainment (DVD in my minivan) was Koi2Kiche CD.

Here are some photos taken at Herman's pond. Which was the only one thawed out. This pond was build in 2004 by Blade Mullinex (who owns a buisness called Hooked on Fish).This pond is 18,000 gallons (as filled with a water meter). And run by a Sequence 7200 pump.

First picture from left to right: Blade Mullinex, Jackie Alsup, Jamie Beyer, Herman, Michelle Mullinex, Tom Graham.
GregBickal
03-16-2005, 10:15 AM
More pictures of Herman's pond and koi.
GregBickal
03-16-2005, 10:26 AM
This pond was out back at Culvers Nursery. They also have a very large garden pond and waterfall in the front of the store, but it was still frozen over, so it wasent worth getting pictures of. Boy, I could hatch out a lot of koi fry in a pond this size :roll:
GregBickal
03-16-2005, 10:27 AM
Another frozen over pond.
GregBickal
03-16-2005, 10:28 AM
Thats it guys. Sorry I didnt get more pictures. It was a very cold day, and I was also the driver. Hopefully we'll see some pictures of Tom's trip in an upcomming issue of the magazine.
Busy B
03-16-2005, 11:03 AM
That must of helped to tide you over till the warmer weather comes:-o


Nice ponds...the huge one with the brick...is that lined?!wow!

No sorry there needed...lots of pics to drool over;)
GregBickal
03-16-2005, 11:16 AM
The big pond is a mud pond. Drool alot !!! :-?
Jackie Ramo
03-16-2005, 11:17 AM
Wow Greg, thanks for sharing. Sounds like you have a good strong club going there. Make sure its listed in the clubs listings please.


Spring is well on its way there, we still have a foot of snow...
Terri
03-16-2005, 03:19 PM
Thanks for sharing Greg :-) put a smile on my face. What was Tom's presentation on/about?
GregBickal
03-16-2005, 04:14 PM
Its was kind of a mini-presentation. He spoke on his history with koi, and touched a little on koi appreciation.

Here is a link to the program that he was presenting on the Monday (as a part of) for the club in Ames Iowa:
http://www.ciwga.org/2005symposium.html
Terri
03-16-2005, 04:26 PM
I was gonna say have you posted your club in the Koi Club forum but I see you have already :-)