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well as newfound friends. "Our
membership has doubled in the
last two years with people either
buying a house with a pond already
installed or who enjoy fish and
want a pond built," says Brannon
Raines, society president.
The society, which stages a tour of
koi ponds every summer, promotes
the entire hobby of koi and water
gardens. "We run the whole gamut,
from those just interested in water
garden plants to members who
collect, breed and show koi," Raines
says. He and others in the group
have also formed an offshoot club,
the Koinetters, whose mission is to
rescue koi and find them homes.
Johnny Massengale, owner of
Ponders in Harrisburg, N.C., is
considered the mastermind of pond
construction in this region. Over
the past 25 years he has designed
and built approximately 1,000 koi