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Koi Fish For Sale
Koi Fish For Sale
The Fish Works has Sydney’s largest range of premium healthy koi fish for sale. From 5cm babies to 60cm show-grade adults, we stock all of the big varieties such as Kohaku (red and white), Sanke, Showa and Ogon as well as the beautiful butterfly and Doitsu koi fish.
We import all of our Japanese koi into NSW from a single breeder in WA, meaning we can guarantee that they are healthy and disease-free.
This gives you the peace of mind to just enjoy them!
To see our current koi fish stock please scroll to the bottom of this page, where you will find a video panning over all of our ponds, updated weekly.
Japanese Koi (sometimes spelled coy or koy) are different to common carp which are the pest fish found in our rivers. They have been selectively bred for thousands of years in Japan to exhibit beautiful colours and patterns that are truly a sight to behold!
The oldest koi in Japan is meant to be 226 years old! Whether this is true or not is up for debate, but there is no doubt that koi have been a beautiful part of Japanese culture for many hundreds of years.
Commonly, koi fish have a lifespan of around 20 years old or so.
Japanese Koi Carp require a pond of at least 800 litres with a good quality pump and filter. We reccomend no more than 6 koi per 1000L of water.
Koi Breeding
Breeding koi fish is not difficult if you have the space. They tend to breed in the spring time, especially after rains of water changes. Koi produce thousands of young and many of them will not show the patterns and colouration of their parents.
The colours displayed in a Japanese koi fish come from the parents, but the pattern of the markings is mostly random. This means, that even if you bred two “champion koi” together, many of the offspring will have a scattered, speckled pattern, with only a select few having a few blotches of even, symmetrical, high-contrast colours.
Although all fish are beautiful, this is how one makes the distinction of a quality koi. Our koi we sell have been carefully selected from our trusted breeders in Western Australia. They have a strong bloodlines, vibrant colours as well as being healthy and disease-free. We just buy the top 10% of all of the koi fish, based on their patterns and colouration, meaning that you just get the best!
Although beauty is something that is strved for during the koi breeding process, the most important factor is happiness and health.
Our Koi fish
Colour, pattern and size are the key factors that will determine the price of a koi fish for sale.
At any given time we should have koi ranging upwards from $10, meaning we have the fish to suit any budget, whether you’re looking for a prize-winning show prospect, or just a friendly backyard pet.
All of our koi fish are in in tip top shape! Sourcing koi interstate does cost a bit more for shipping, but we find that the NSW market has been plagued by uncurable diseases such as ulcers (a koi herpes virus). We pay for quality because we both enjoy the beauty of the fish more, but we are also a business and cannot afford to have diseased fish.
The spreading of koi ulcer disease is likely due to poor practices and the mixing of stock at koi auctions. It’s difficult to be certain with these fish if they are safe to add to your pond (A lesson we have seen many people, and even ourselves, learn the hard way!). It’s much better safe than sorry.
Our Japanese koi are only fed quality fish food, including floating and sinking pellets, organic vegetables, and fruit and worms grown on-site. This diet, combined with the genetics of the stock we purchase makes for healthy and beautiful fish.
Variety of Koi we stock include:
Kohaku, Sanke, Showa, Sanshoku, Bekko, Utsuri-Mono, Kawarimono, Hikari-Moyomono, Asagi, Shusui, Koromo, Ogon, Kinginrin, Hariwaki Doitsu, Hi-Utsuri and Ki-Utsuri.
We have much more than just these varieites too! To see all of our different sizes, colours and types of koi, come and visit our Sydney store.
Butterfly Koi fish for sale
The Fish Works is one of the few places in Australia to stock the majestic butterfly koi. Butterfly koi have the long flowing tails and fins of some of the goldfish varieties but have the same colours and patterns that people love in
Japanese Koi carp. A definite crowd favourite, these koi are hard to miss as they gracefully move around your pond!
Some of the premium koi for sale we have had in the past:
