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There are many things you put on your holiday koi keeping wish list for yourself or your favorite koi kichi. (Oh no, he said the "kk" words).

Of course there is always new pond test kits (Lamott or Hach) and meters (highly recommend getting and using an ORP meter that you can calibrate such as the Pinpoint model). For a high end gift, you can also give a seat to a multiday koi keeping health seminar. (www.koihealthseminar.com).

I would also suggest folks build up their own personal library of koi keeping refernce materials. I have complied below a list of available reference materials. Most of the books should be listed in Amazon book department. A few may be out of print or out of stock. If you do a search in Amazon books for koi, you will get many hits.

Here is a new book by a collection of authors in the UK that are highly respected. They do regular articles in Koi and Koi Carp magazines plus product koi keeping videos. It is on my wish list.

http://www.amazon.com/Essential-Boo...95996897&sr=1-1

Two other new books on my wish list are Koi 1 and Koi 2 released by Evolution Aqua. They should be available via an EA dealer.
http://www.evolutionaqua.com/displa...id=4&class_id=4

Books
Koi Kichi
Koi 2 Kichi
Koi Living Jewels of the Orient
Tetra Encyclopedia of Koi
AKCA Pond construction
AKCA Prefilters and Filters
AKCA Koi Nutricition
The Completely Illustrated Guide to Koi
Koi Appreciation: The First Step
Kokugyo Volume 1
Kokugyo Volume 2
Manual of Koi Health
Koi Health and Disease 2006 Reload
Step by Step Advanced Koi Diagnosis & Treatments
Advanced Koi Care
The Koi Doctor
Koi A Handbook on Keeping Nishikigoi
The Cult of the Koi
Koi for Dummies
Textbook of Nishikigoi
Manual of Nishikigoi
Modern Nishikigoi
Nishikigoi, Fancy Koi
Koi for Home and Garden


Magazines
KOIUSA (magazine of AKCA)
Koi Nation
Koi (former Koi Ponds and Gardens)
Koi Carp (magazine of BKKS)
Nichirin (magazine of ZNA)
Nishikigoi International

DVD magazines
KoiFixx (excellent series by Brady)

On-line koi magazines
Koi-Bito
Rinko

DVDs and Tapes
Living Jewels series (10 volumes plus a "Best of")
Koi Keepers series (5 released)
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Koi
Pond Construction
Koi Carp Master Class: Starting Out
Advanced Koi Keeping (oldie but goodie by Brady)
Project: Koi Pond


Note on the DVDs and tapes: Many of the above titles are in PAL format from Europe. So your computer should be able to play them. But for you to see them on your DVD player and TV, the DVD player may need to be both "region free" and be able to convert PAL to NTSC (North American video standard).



Whatever you decide, I wish you and your koi a healthy 2008!