Washington Koi and Water Garden Society

Welcome to the Washington Koi & Water Garden Society. We are a group of koi keepers and water garden fanciers who enjoy getting together on Zoom, pond tours, field trips, and summer outdoor meetings, including last year’s Koi Fest. Prior to the Covid outbreak, we put on koi shows for 28 years. We share ideas and help one another and provide a monthly newsletter with relevant articles to members.

During membership meetings, we have educational programs on koi health, pond construction, koi varieties, aquatic plants, nutrition, filtration, and water quality, among others. We are a non-profit hobbyist organization, and we are affiliated with the Pacific Northwest Koi Clubs Association and Koi Organisation International. Our Executive Board meets regularly to plan a variety of activities for our membership.

We suggest that if you are even thinking about constructing a koi pond, join a koi club such as ours and get as much information as possible before taking that first shovelful of dirt. Also, it isn’t necessary to have koi to enjoy ponds. Beautifully planted ponds or ponds with goldfish, or even pondless waterfalls provide pleasurable moments to WK & WGS members, even though our focus is on koi, our “living jewels.”

We are a koi community, and we are here to help.

Upcoming Events and Important News

Our February Meeting is on Zoom!

February 18th 7pm

“My favorite koi isn’t coming over to eat. Should I do something?” Or “Is it normal for my koi to leap? Is he catching mosquitos?” These may be familiar questions for koi keepers, especially beginners in this hobby.

We can learn more about what’s normal and what isn’t when Kelvin Davis, our speaker on February 18th, presents Understanding Koi Behavior to Diagnose Problems.

Kelvin Davis, working on his MKK (Master Koi Keeper) credentials, is an instructor for Koi Organisation International, coordinating students in the program who are working on their Certified Koi Keeper credentials. We had the privilege of hearing him last year when he delivered the Nutrition program to our club. He’s a member of the Dayton Koi Club and Greater Louisville Koi and Goldfish Club; he started with a little preformed pond with goldfish and like many of us, moved on to koi and koi ponds, and water gardens once he got hooked.

In addition to keeping koi, Kelvin raises two breeds of sheep for competition and for sale as breeding stock, lambing close to 100 per year at his farm in Ohio.

Join us on Zoom at 7 p.m. February 18th. The Zoom code will be sent out prior to that date. Think about any “weird” behavior you have witnessed so you can ask Kelvin about it.