RAFFLES: You can help keep us our show growing and win some great prizes at the same time. You need not be present to win (except for fish), non-present winners will be notified and responsible for shipping costs where applicable. Proceeds go to help pay cost of the Show.
RAFFLES: You can help keep our show growing and win some
great prizes. You need not be present to win (except for live fish),
Winners will be notified and responsible for picking up your prizes within
seven (7) days after the event or prizes will revert back to club for future
use.
General Raffle: $1.00/tickets. Again this year we will hold our general raffle with drawings every 30 minutes from 10:30 am - 4:30 pm on Saturday and 11:00 am to 1:00 pm on Sunday. We have a large array of items including fish and pond related products and services as well as non-pond-related prizes. Donors at the time of printing are: Aquarium Pharmaceuticals, ABI Inc,. Aquatic Eco-Systems, Calvert Engineering, Novalek Inc., Performance Pumps, PMI Nutrition International, Odyddey Systems, E.G. Danner MFG., Ecological Labs, Environmental Bacteria Corp, Hai Feng, Hikari, Jungle, Koi Kennel, Koi USA, Kordon, Pattigrafix, Purina Mazuri, Tetra Pond, Texas Koi & Fancy Goldfish Soc., and Water Garden Gems,
Special Raffle: $5.00/tickets.
We will have our special raffle prize drawings Sunday afternoon at 1:00pm. You can specify which special prize you want your tickets drawn from. Discounts for purchasing five or more tickets. Special raffle items are llive fish or generally valued at $100 or more.7 CF PolyGeyser Bead filter from international Filter Solutions – $2,750 value
Show quality Koi donated by Brett Rowley – $250
Long Fin Koi donated by Vance Schultze – $50 daily value
Koi/Goldfish donated Ornamental Pond Fish – $50 daily value
Scarecrow donated by Contech electronics -$79 value
1/6 hp Sequence pump (3,000 gph) donated by MDM– $420 value
If you have a product or service you would like to
donate to our raffle please contact Kathii or Barry Tackett at (210) 822-9820
or email ktack1@grandecom.net
SHOW BANQUET: 7:00
pm Historic Menger Hotel, 204 Alamo Plaza, in
downtown San Antonio Prepaid reservations are required.
Cost is $50 per person for Menger Hotel at 204 Alamo Plaza.
(210-223-4361) Event signs will be posted inside the hotel to guide you to the
banquet room. Parking at the hotel is $25 valet only. Several cheaper self
parking lots are with 1 block of the hotel. Menu: Black bean soup, choice of
three salads, BBQ ribs, Roasted Chicken, Smoked beef brisket, Smoked country
sausage, Spicy pinto beans, Roasted pine nut rice, Seasonal Fresh vegetables,
Bread pudding with Whisky sauce or Fresh fruit cobbler, iced tea and coffee
included. Please do not delay as
we have limited seating available. This is a casual fun dinner party not the
awards ceremony. Make checks payable to TKFGS and send to Ray Jordan, 15514 Elm Park San
Antonio, TX 78247.
AUCTION: We will conduct an auction of show and pond quality fish Sunday afternoon at 1:30pm. We are very grateful to everyone donating fish for this event. We need to have all donated auction fish delivered in individual sealed fish bags with water and oxygen delivered to the auction site approximately about 1 hour before the auction begins. Anyone may bid and buy fish at the auction, however, only TKFGS members or show vendors may donate fish to help insure only healthy fish are offered for auction. Here is a sample of baby koi donated by tank Hollow Farms to the auction. They will be bagged and sold in lots of about six koi per bag.
TKFGS members that donate fish to the auction will receive 50% of the proceeds. The other 50% of proceeds will be donated to the AKCA - Project KHV.
WATER QUALITY: Jennifer & Tom Walker of the Dallas club will be in charge of our water quality again this year. We will have thirty (30) koi show tanks set up for the show this year. This includes ten (10) eight foot tanks reserved for larger koi. Our specially plumbed tanks use a unique flow through fresh water system supplied by pure well water. (water is constantly replaced every six hours) This system greatly reduces the chance of ammonia build up and the need to add chemicals to treat the show tank water and is the state of the art for fish safety. We will have two air stones supplying aeration for each koi tank. Also, we will have thirty - 20 gallon aquariums set up for goldfish. The goldfish aquariums are not on a flow through system so the water will be closely monitored and treated with Amquel to neutralize any ammonia excreted by the fish.
TANK Reservations: Show Competitors please read very carefully! Because of the “English” style show system we need to know in advance how many koi tanks and goldfish aquariums to set up. Fee for the koi tanks will be $100 for an eight foot tank, $75 for a six ft. tank. If want to share a tank with someone that is fine also. Find your own tank buddy or we will try to find one for you. Fee for goldfish will be $5 per fish. Please call Ray Jordan with the following information: (1) The number and size of koi tanks you want, (2) The number of 20 gallon goldfish aquariums you want. There will be a limit of three (3) koi tanks per family and only one can be a eight foot tank unless all ten are not reserved. A waiting list will be utilized. We will strictly enforce the following tank stocking rules. Please use the following system as a guide to determine how many fish can be placed in each tank. Plan on 2-4 small to medium goldfish per aquarium. With larger goldfish plan on 1-2 per aquarium. With koi use the following formula: Multiply the size class (1-8) of your fish (see registration form) by the number of fish you are showing in that size class. Do this calculation for all your koi. For example if you bring one-size 5 = 5 points and two-size 4 = 8 pts, and 3 size 3 = 9 points. If you brought these six fish to the show they would total 5+8+9 = 22 points. The show guidelines for the six foot tank capacity is 25 points and 40 points for eight foot tanks. Since your point total is “22” in this example you would need a single six foot tank. We have 10-eight foot tanks and 20-six foot tanks for the show. We recommend that unless you have several size 7 or larger koi that you use the six foot tanks. This is intended to be a guide only. We do not want to over crowd anyone’s fish. If your fish load is too great for the tank/s reserved we will require you take another tank if available. Koi show entrants need to bring a standard koi net and koi tub appropriately sized for their koi for each of their reserved tanks. A single koi net can be utilized for two tanks if necessary. In order to keep everyone’s fish quarantined from other fish we need dedicated nets and tubs for each tank. If you do not have your own nets & tubs you can rent them from the club for $5 during the show. Once you have determined your tank requirements please call Ray Jordan at 210-494-2034 to reserve your koi tanks and goldfish aquariums. We have already received a number of tank reservations and predict a complete sell out of available tank space again this year. We require that you send your tank payment as soon as you make your reservations. Deadline for tank reservations/payment will be Tuesday October 9th. Make checks payable to TKFGS and mail to TKFGS, 15514 Elm Park, San Antonio, TX 78247. This procedure will insure that we have enough tanks set up to handle everyone’s fish. Fish will be monitored routinely for any problems and show tank water will be tested for ammonia as needed. All koi show tanks will be covered with netting except during the actual judging. Security will be provided. A separate quarantine tank will be available to hold any disqualified or over capacity fish not allowed in the show.
TO SEE 2007 SHOW TANK RESERVATIONS FOR KOI - CLICK HERE