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We are all
students in the Koi world. It seems that you find out some bit
of information that leads to a lot more questions than may be
answered by what you find in print or on the web. (Beware...you
will find the best and worst
information on the internet...) Here are some web forums
where you can pose a question and get answers from many experienced
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Koi Club Information
There are several local Koi Clubs that we can recommend:
There are several local Koi Clubs that we can recommend:
Santa Clara Koi & Water Garden Club
Camellia Koi Club (Sacramento area)
San Francisco Bay Area Koi Club
for those not in the SF Bay Area:
Assoc. Koi Clubs of America (all USA)
International:
Koi Health
PSK is Certified in the BHP Program by Project KHV
On Tuesday, December 23, 2008 we were certified in the dealers Best Health Practices program. We are the third dealer in the US to be certified in this program, sponsored by the AKCA's Project KHV. The BHP Certification program, spear-headed by Spike Cover, was formed by Project KHV to help dealers and hobbiests alike. This certfication requires dealers and wholesalers to follow strict bio-security protocols in order to minimize the risk of spreading the Koi Herpes Virus (KHV) to hobbiests.
Dr. Scott Weber, DVM from UC Davis Aquatic Veterinary Sciences came to our store to examine our compliance with the required protocols, and determined that we are certifiable (OK, we knew that, but now we are truely certified by the BHP program).
Here is a photo of the Certificate that is in the mail for Dr. Weber's signature.
New Online Store - www.pskoistore.com
We have opened a new online store and we have Koi available to purchase!
Russell in Japan Fall 2008
PSKoi
specializes in carrying high quality Japanese Koi at reasonable prices.
We buy our Koi from well-known breeders, such as Toshio Sakai, Masaru Hosokai, Futoshi Maruyama
and Tsuyoshi Kawakami, who take pride in providing beautiful, healthy fish.Our retail store is located in Martinez, CA, and we provide an online store for our customers that can not easily come in person. In our store you will find gorgeous Japanese Koi, pond construction materials, Koi medications, Koi and Goldfish food and pond construction materials, as well as pond supplies.
We
place Koi health as one of our highest priorities. We continually strive
to educate ourselves by studying current Koi health practices.
We are pleased to be a part of
Project KHV's dealers Best Health Practices program.We have been privileged to study Koi quality and health practices with Mr. Toshio Sakai, of Isawa Nishikigoi Center, and we will continue to learn from our trips to Japan as we visit breeders.
We also believe it is important to help our customers learn as much
about the Koi knowledge we are acquiring, and we provide them with
educational seminars, information sheets, club information, and we post
on various Koi forums to show people what it is like to travel to Japan
and see the beautiful Koi and generous breeders that we have come to
know and love.
Standards of Practice
At PSKoi, we quarantine all of our new Koi for 3 weeks. We take
100% of our new shipments from each breeder and heat to 74 degrees F for
3 weeks to check for any symptoms related to KHV. We also scrape
and view the samples under a microscope to check for exterior parasites.
Although we have never had fish that have shown symptoms of KHV, we have
the equipment and capability to draw blood from Koi, a centrifuge to
separate the serum, and the ability to send for a whole blood test at UC
Davis.
All of our Japanese Koi come from Breeders that have been certified by the Japanese Government to be KHV and SVC safe for 2 years.