Koi Fish

[australia]

i heard these fish are worth alot of money, around $100 AU to $5000) AU is this correct?

 

[cuticom]

They are illegals in certain states of Aus.

The price all depends on what type they are, whether or not their showable etc. See if you can find a Koi show in your area, they often sell tonnes of 2-4 inch fish for only a couple of bucks a piece. But after that the price starts going up 6-8 inchers are about $25. But if you want show fish, then yes expect to pay way more then $100.

 

[Tokis-Phoenix]

Koi can go for a lot of money, but it depends on a lot of factors, a lot of koi are practically worthless.

Koi change their colours and patterning as they grow from small juveniles to full grown adults, a small juvenile koi with promising colours and patterns may turn into an ugly koi when full grown, while a juvenile koi which does not look particularly special make turn into a real beauty as it grows up etc.
This is one of the main reasons why a lot of juvenile koi are not worth much at all, since the person buying them does not have a great deal of guarentee that they will grow up into beautiful adults when older, it takes a lot of knowledge and experience to pick out really good juvenile koi that will most likely grow into really beautiful adults when larger.

So the koi which go into the hundreds or thousands of ponds/dollars are almost always very large specimens whose patterning and colours are good and the koi has finished the majority of its growing so is unlikely to change its colour or patterning, so the person buying such koi knows that the koi they are buying are going to always look the same.

Most koi sold in petshops and garden centres and such places are almost always D or C grade koi, but every now and then you can be lucky and pick up a real good quality juvenile that grows up into a real stunner.


This sort of stuff is the same for goldfish, since they also have the same problem of changing colours and patterning a fair amount as they grow, which is why the larger attractive specimens are always worth more than the juvenile ones, not because they are large, but rather primarily because their colours and patterns are unlikely to change when the fish is full grown or nearly fully grown etc .

 

[australia]

Koi can go for a lot of money, but it depends on a lot of factors, a lot of koi are practically worthless.

Koi change their colours and patterning as they grow from small juveniles to full grown adults, a small juvenile koi with promising colours and patterns may turn into an ugly koi when full grown, while a juvenile koi which does not look particularly special make turn into a real beauty as it grows up etc.
This is one of the main reasons why a lot of juvenile koi are not worth much at all, since the person buying them does not have a great deal of guarentee that they will grow up into beautiful adults when older, it takes a lot of knowledge and experience to pick out really good juvenile koi that will most likely grow into really beautiful adults when larger.

So the koi which go into the hundreds or thousands of ponds/dollars are almost always very large specimens whose patterning and colours are good and the koi has finished the majority of its growing so is unlikely to change its colour or patterning, so the person buying such koi knows that the koi they are buying are going to always look the same.

Most koi sold in petshops and garden centres and such places are almost always D or C grade koi, but every now and then you can be lucky and pick up a real good quality juvenile that grows up into a real stunner.


This sort of stuff is the same for goldfish, since they also have the same problem of changing colours and patterning a fair amount as they grow, which is why the larger attractive specimens are always worth more than the juvenile ones, not because they are large, but rather primarily because their colours and patterns are unlikely to change when the fish is full grown or nearly fully grown etc .

okay thanks alot