Koi Angelfish

We've been perfecting our Koi Lines

and selling tens of thousands of them to breeders and hatcheries all over the world since 1983 - longer than anyone else! We pioneered the development of Koi and hope to continue many years into the future. The color on our breeding stock is unsurpassed! In addition, most also have a percentage of wild blood in them. 

Enter quantity desired in each box

Juvenile Select Koi $22.00 ea   - very intense color! Quarter+ size
Number of above juv. Select Koi with veil fins - add $3.00 ea

Juvenile Premium Koi $12.75, 6 or more $11.75 ea   - very intense color - Qtr size.
Number of above Premium Koi with veil fins - add $2.00 ea

Juvenile Premium Koi $8.75, 6 or more $7.75 ea   - very intense, just not as high of a percentage of orange. - Qtr+ size
Number of above Regular Koi with veil fins - add $1.50 ea

We price our Koi angelfish based on the amount of orange on them. Our Regular Koi have approximately 30-40% orange coverage on their bodies. Our Premium Koi have approximately 40-75% orange, and our Select Koi range from about 75-99% orange on the body.

The above video (taken 7/10) shows some nickel/quarter sized fish that are currently in stock, for sale. The color is good, but no where near as intense as it will get as they age (in the right conditions).

The below photos are of fish that are not for sale - just examples of the stock.

Adult Male Koi	Male from #1 Pair	25% Wild Female from #1 Pair
Male from #2 Pair	Female from #2 Pair	Select (90%) Juvenile Koi
Adult Female Koi	Select (100%)Juvenile Koi	Adult Male Koi
Adult Male Koi	Koi Breeding Pair	Adult Female Koi
2010 Young Adults	2010 Young Adult	2010 Young Adult

Koi Color Genetics

(Gm/g S/S) or (Gm/Gm S/S) This is a fish with a very complex color genetic makeup. The only known gene interactions are from Gold Marble and Stripeless alleles. There is great variability in the expression of orange pigment. The requirements to get good expression are not completely understood. A non-stressing environment is very important and foods containing carotenoids are also effective in developing and maintaining color. Don't worry too much about the foods, since most contain a good amount of these carotenoids. We recommend freeze dried plankton, freeze dried brine shrimp, and a good color flake.   It appears that orange coverage is controlled primarily by genetics. The intensity of orange is influenced more by environment. Koi with great orange intensity are not as likely to get as intense in water conditions that are not ideal.  Our extensive tests have shown that great coverage of orange comes from good genetics and high intensity is more a matter of luck - having good water and discovering which foods tend to work best. There are probably some breeders feeding a color enhancing substance that is not natural in foods. You will find it difficult to replicate their results. We only feed our own products available in our Supply Store - with all natural color enhancing foods.

Cautions:  Keep these things in mind when looking at photos of Koi on the internet. Representing the color on Koi is a very tricky thing. First, camera hardware and software that interprets color, varies greatly. Camera flashes can both wash out color and in some instances, greatly enhance it. Un-calibrated monitors show colors in many different shades and photo editing software can manipulate photos to look tremendously different from real-life appearances. Also, the light spectrum of the light source on the aquarium will greatly affect the look of the fish. Overall, internet photos can be very deceiving.  We do our best to represent our fish the way we see them in our tanks. When preparing photos, we do it on calibrated monitors, but it doesn't mean that your monitor will reproduce it the same way, or that your aquarium lighting will reflect the colors in the same way as ours.

In addition to the above problems, the color can fade under stress.  The younger they are, the less intense the color will be, even on very well cared for fish in ideal water. It fades somewhat just catching them in a net. Shipping causes it to fade, aggressive fish chasing them, overfeeding, a tank that frightens them, too many plants that deplete oxygen at night, breeding stress and many other stresses can cause the color to fade. When you received shipped Koi, the color when you receive them, won't be as intense as when they were shipped. Also, some people are just unlucky. They have water, that for whatever reason, Koi simply will not color up well in.  They can receive fish with great intensity and will themselves never be able to reproduce it in their own fry.

In general, the color gets more intense as the fish age. At the same time the percentage of coverage generally goes down a bit as the fish matures. Adults that are 100% orange (except where there is black) are still fairly rare at this time.

Koi are not the easiest fish to work with in regards to color. For those who do everything right and have great water, they can seem simple. For the unlucky and inexperienced, it can seem as if the color is artificial and they're being duped by the seller. This is why we recommend buying fish that show good color at the time you get them. If they're tiny and you are the one who must put the color on them, you may find out that they never color up.