New Member from South Africa

[Collin Nel]

Hi Everyone

My name is Collin Nel I am co-owner of Orient Koi Farm north east of Pretoria in South Africa. I am also the current national Chairman of the South African Koi Trade Association (SAKTA) in Short. If you have any questions about the koi trade in SA or Koi Farms in SA I would happily try and answer them for you to the best of my ability.



Best regards

[dinh]

Welcome to the KB board Collin!!! This is one of the best koi forum. Enjoying....

--Dinh

Quote: Originally Posted by Collin Nel Hi Everyone My name is Collin Nel I am co-owner of Orient Koi Farm north east of Pretoria in South Africa. I am also the current national Chairman of the South African Koi Trade Association (SAKTA) in Short. If you have any questions about the koi trade in SA or Koi Farms in SA I would happily try and answer them for you to the best of my ability. Best regards

[KoiCop]

you're most welcome here and I look forward to you sharing your perspective on the hobby.

[Nancy M.]

Welcome to Koi-Bito

[dick benbow]

interested in learning the type of water there in So Africa. hard /Soft? How does the better japanese fish acclimate to it?



Welcome!

[Steve Nguyen]

Welcome Collin!!

how about add some descriptions to the picture? looks like there a many big ponds? are they mud ponds?

Steve

Quote: Originally Posted by Collin Nel Hi Everyone My name is Collin Nel I am co-owner of Orient Koi Farm north east of Pretoria in South Africa. I am also the current national Chairman of the South African Koi Trade Association (SAKTA) in Short. If you have any questions about the koi trade in SA or Koi Farms in SA I would happily try and answer them for you to the best of my ability. Best regards

[dinh]

Quote: Originally Posted by Steve Nguyen Welcome Collin!! how about add some descriptions to the picture? looks like there a many big ponds? are they mud ponds? Steve

Yes, that is a good start ;-))

[aquitori]

Quote: Originally Posted by Collin Nel Hi Everyone My name is Collin Nel I am co-owner of Orient Koi Farm north east of Pretoria in South Africa. I am also the current national Chairman of the South African Koi Trade Association (SAKTA) in Short. If you have any questions about the koi trade in SA or Koi Farms in SA I would happily try and answer them for you to the best of my ability. Best regards

Collin welcome to the board, where we absorb knowledge like a sponge....Welcome again...

[jnorth]

Welcome to Koi-bito! Please give us a description of the photo. Looks like some nice mud ponds.

[Collin Nel]

Hi All

Thank you for making me feels so welcome here. The water in SA is hard and soft it depends on the area. Our water is all from boreholes. We have 2 boreholes the big one is 45m deep and deliver 41000l p/h and it supply the mud ponds. There are 27 mud ponds 24 of them have a capacity of 1200000l and then there are 3 that are about 10 million l of water. We are currently busy completing the last one.

The small one is 35m deep and delivers 5000l p/h and it supply the hatchery. The hatchery have 45 cement systems, 4 systems of 45 000l, 17 systems of 12 000l and 24 round work ponds of 2 500l per pond. The work ponds do not have any filtration the rest of the systems have over and under chamber filter systems.

So to summarise we have a combined mud pond water capacity of 58 800 000 l and cement systems water capacity of 444000l.

Our water is soft but very hi in nitrogen due to the depth of the boreholes so we have to air rated it over night be for we could use it.

The 2 new photos are of the hatchery and the 10 mil mud pond that we are completing hopefully to day if it does not rain.

Japanese koi adapt well in SA water but it all depends on your self how well you could maintain the water for them and that go for any koi from any where in the world. I would not say that Japanese koi is that much better then ours have a look at our quality.

Goshiki 2 years 40cm, Kohaku 30 days 5cm and Sanke 2 years 38cm.