Posted by MidnightMu on September 01, 2002 at 16:45:46:
In Reply to: Koi are graded by quality and size and posted by Michele on August 31, 2002 at 21:50:59:
:there are some characteristics that are highly prized....what you spend is going to depend on what you get and who you are getting them from...and what you are going to do with them.
:For people who are going to show or breed, you really need the top quality. If you want a few in your pond and have no desire to show, you only want some color, and some nice fish, then you won't be spending as much.
::howdy, i'm kinda baffled at the amazingly high prices for koi. how many of you here are buying koi for like a thousand dollars? or even just hundreds? please respond i'm very curious.
I'd like to share some pictures we just took of our fish. This picture shows a bunch of them feeding ...
I'm pretty much a newbie - have had a pond for a little over a year (though we had to rebuild it this spring, after damage from excessive run-off from the hills). My husband and I just wanted pretty fish in our "water garden" (pond is now about 11' x 22' and water is 24-30" in depth).
We bought most of our Koi last summer, but bought more this year, in addition to the baby Koi born this year. (And we had no losses over the Missouri winter.) We bought most of ours at 5-6", some at 6-8", a very few at about 10". We paid between $12.95 and $35 for our fish, and they're beautiful and doing very well. In fact, we've been very happily surprised at just how well they've done and how quickly they're growing.
