Koi varieties - How to identify the koi in your pond 

Thanks Suzy 👍👍👍

No problem mate, thank you for watching 👍👍

Thanks Josh, I really appreciate that 👍👍

haha , hi Melissa, it is definitely very relaxing and a little therapeutic. Maybe I should look in to a live feed cctv camera 😁

@@DazzleKoi Very therapeutic! Thank you, as well, for the great information. I am learning all I can and really appreciate your style.

Thank you, much appreciated 🍻🍻

Cheers mate, I appreciate that Sir 🍻🍻 It still amazes me that I film myself with my phone and someone thousands of miles away can watch me. We take youtube for granted now but its only a few years ago that would be the stuff of sci fi 😮

Thanks Harry, I'm glad you enjoyed it 🍻🍻

Thanks Gary, yes its a minefield. And its not going to get any easier unfortunately. All the best mate 🎅👍

Cheers Simon, thank you very much 🍻🍻

Cheers Paul, I appreciate that, all the best Sir 🍻

Thanks Dean, I really appreciate that. It sounds like you have a great mix of koi there. Its really interesting seeing how they change and which fry turn in to which varieties as adults. You can learn loads by tracking them as they progress.

Thanks a lot Mitch 🍻

Thank you very much, I really appreciate your comments and taking the time to watch and reply 👍👍

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Thanks Brian, I appreciate that Sir, good to hear it was useful to you 👍🍻👍🍻👍

Thank you Carol, I'm turning my attention to the next shower video now. Hopefully not to far away 🤞

Thanks Ric, glad it was helpful 🍻

Thanks mate, all the best 🍻

Hi mate, sorry for the delay in replying to you, I've been away on holiday. That's good to hear, glad it was helpful 👍👍🍻👍👍

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Thanks a lot Anthony, I really appreciate that 🍻🍻

Thank you mate, I appreciate that. Expect to get hooked and never have any money ever again 🍻🍺🍻😁

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Thank you mate, much appreciated 🍻🍻

Thanks Adam, all the best to you 🍻🍻

Cheers Aidan, good to hear it was useful for you 🍻🍻

Very good show but one question do they really have blue koi fish

Hi Carlos, yes there are a couple of varieties that have a slight blue hue on them 👍👍

Thank you Dean, much appreciated 🍻

Cheers Michael, its a really interesting subject when you look at how names came about etc. Its a lot to remember though 😲

Thank you very much Graham 🍻

Thank you mate, much appreciated 🍻👍🍻👍🍻

Thanks Jayne, much appreciated 👍🥂👍

Thanks very much indeed. It can be an absolute minefield trying to remember what every variety is called. I struggle like mad, particularly with all the new ones that seem to be coming along in recent years 🍺🍻🍻🍺

Hi mate, how's the build going? Thanks very much for your kind words, I appreciate that 🍻 The only ones I've seen are on ebay but they don't tend tp be very big so check the size. I think the biggest I've seen is A3. I'll have another look around and let you know if I have any joy.

Thanks Al, all the best to you and yours 🎅🎅🍻🎅🎅

Thank you much, glad to hear you found it useful 👍👍🍻🍻👍👍

Thanks Richard, your very welcome 🍻

Thanks mate 👍 Gin rin is very cool. Because its a numbers game you dont seen many BIG gin rin but when you do its even more special.

Thanks mate, good to have you onboard 🍻🍻

Thanks mate, I appreciate that 🍻🍻

Thanks Brendan, much appreciated. Welcome aboard 👍👍🍻🍻👍👍

Cheers Cameron, nice to here you found it helpful 👍🍻🍻👍

Thank you very much mate, I'm just a koi nerd thats all 😁

Cheers mate, thanks for watching 🍻🍻

You're welcome Graham 🍻🍻🍻

Thanks mate 🍻

Hi there, apologies, I missed this comment. Did you get them home? How are things going?

@@DazzleKoi Hello from Ireland yes we got our koi home only 6 of them as the dealer was afraid of the filtration system was not matured enough but we are allowed too add two more in October there all doing really well eating like horses twice a day !!!!

Cheers Alex, much appreciated 🍻🍻

To be honest mate, that would be a lot simpler and easier to remember 😁😁

Hi mate, and thank you. I haven't owned one before so I don't really know what to expect. I don't know how they develop so its all a learning curve. All I really know is you want a very light coloured fish at tosai, which I went for, but it went very dark in my water almost overnight. Interesting to see them change though

Hello there mate and welcome. Sounds like a great pond and some good size koi to 👍👍 I dint realise there where restrictions in Canada like that, it must be very frustrating. Sumi Goromo are not particularly common here, especially not a good quality one, so I can imagine how difficult it is to find one where you are. good luck with the search, it will be all the more special when you eventually find one 🍻🍻🍻

Thanks Chris, all the best Sir 🍻

Thank you very much mate, I really appreciate that. If there is ever anything in particular you'd like to see a video on just give me a shout. I don't pretend to know everything by a long way but if its something I'm not knowledgeable about I usually know someone who is or I can research myself as I'm always keen to learn 🍻🍻👍👍🍻🍻

@@DazzleKoi thanks so much man! If you’re part of the UK koi owners Facebook group I’m sure you’ll see me with many questions there!

No problem, and yes I certainly am. I'll look out for them 👍👍👍

Cheers mate 🍻🍻👍🍻🍻

Thanks John, much appreciated 🍻🍻

@@DazzleKoi Where do you live if you don't mind me asking? I'm in Wisconsin in America, my wife is from Cornwall.👍

Hi John, I'm in a little town called St Helens, its in the North West of England, right in the middle between Liverpool and Manchester. Cornwall is lovely, much nicer than up here 😁

Thank you Tiroshan 👍

Cheers Rob 🍻🍻👍🍻🍻

haha, indeed, its a bit of a minefield 👍👍

Hi Hi, sorry, I only just noticed your comment. I've been on holiday and I'm so far behind with comments its not funny. I'm struggling a bit from your description to be honest. Grey koi are probably soragoi and a soragoi with brown markings is an ochiba shigura but I don't know of a grey koi with yellow markings.

Hi Ian and welcome 🍻🍻 Good to hear it was useful to you. If you have any questions just give me a shout mate 👍👍

Thank you very much Stephan, all the best to you 🍻🍻

haha, I knew someone would mention the robin. I kid you not, it sat on top of the camera for half of that video. It put me right off and i had to redo the 'doitsu' section (you can see the light is different) because I kept looking at the robin instead of the camera and forgetting what I was saying 😁😁

Brilliant 😁😁

Thanks very much Rob, I really appreciate that. To be honest I just really enjoy making the videos but you're right, it would be nice to reach more people with them. Glad you found it useful 🍻🍻👍👍🍻🍻

I’m a total novice so if it wasn’t for people like you taking the time to make the videos I would have a lot of dead fish swimming around or should I say floating 🤦🏻‍♂️so appreciate it

Also I’m just starting my build I’m looking around at testing kits what’s the best one that is easy to use please in your opinion

Hi Rob, I'm currently using the Colombo kit and I'm really happy with it. Once I generate enough ad revenue I'm going to buy the big 4 test kits and do a back to back test and review on them all but it will be some time off yet I think.

Hi Paul, you can send me pictures if you like and I can have a look? Darren-fitzgerald@sky.com

Cheers Fred 🍺🍻🍻🍺

@@DazzleKoi Thanks

Hi Jason, absolutely, I'll add that to the list. I've got quite a long list of requests now but I'm working through them. I'm hoping to do some videos with a koi dealer in the new year so that might be one I can do with him as he would have plenty of different koi to look at as examples 👍👍

Hi Sonja and thank you very much 🍻🍻 Koi are valued based on many different things. A young koi will have a value in its potential. So it may be expensive because it has the potential to be a very high quality fish when it grows. However, if you don't go on to realise that potential then that value is lost. Value comes from a koi having the body shape and signs that it will grow big, good skin quality, good colour and lustre, proportions, confirmation, good balance to the pattern, size at a given age etc etc etc , so many things. When it comes to graded koi, these tend to be lower quality fish such as from garden centres or low end koi outlets and to be very honest with you, they don't mean a lot. There is no standard, no rules for it. Its just down to the people selling them and their interpretation. They may use good quality parents and so grade the offspring as high grade but in effect this is no indication at all of the quality of an individual fish. When you are starting out I wouldn't place any emphasis on anything other than what you are comfortable to spend on a koi and picking something that you like. If the hobby grabs you and you become obsessed (like most do 😁) you will learn from these first koi and by the time you are ready to invest in better quality you will know what to look for 👍👍👍

@@DazzleKoi Thank you very much for one getting back to me and two for letting me know. I would love to show you my koi that I currently have. I'm really interested in doing the photo shows and have looked into buying a measuring tub. I currently have a Blagdon Half moon pond with Common Goldfish and a large pond in the front with my Koi I However, I have also now decided on getting a large standing pond built up similar to your one that you had In the back of your video, Digging is out the question as we have underground pipework as I sadly found out when trying to build the pond there two years ago. 🙈 Do you have any tips on how to maintain this type of pond? I'm curious you drain the pond and just stand in it as this is what I do with my large pond at the front. I will be using insulation and carpet to protect the pond liner and help keep the heat in for during the winter.

Hi Sonja, my pond does go down in to the ground as well. Its not really possible to go deep enough with it all out of the ground as it starts to look odd if you go higher than say 3ft and koi really need 4ft+ to be comfortable, particularly over winter. Have you looked in to re-routing the underground pipes? Its often not as difficult as you might think. In terms of maintenance, I have a bottom drain in which feeds to my filter by gravity so there is no maintenance. The pond is fibreglassed and the drain keeps the bottom spotless. The air helps to push any waste straight to the drain in the middle and out to the filter. I flush the filter out every night which involves turning a couple of valves and takes about 3 minutes. But it could be done once a week, its just that I like to get the waste out of my filter every day rather than leave it in there longer.

@@DazzleKoi Ok Thank you for your reply. ☺️

You're welcome 🥂👍🥂

Thanks very much, good to hear it was useful mate 👍🍻👍

@@DazzleKoi I'm enjoying all your videos. I'm on a steep learning curve. Currently enlarging my small 500L goldfish pond to a 4500L Koi pond. So all your information is really helpful. Keep posting and I'll keep watching. Thanks.

Cheers Jeremy. My top tip would be to try and keep it simple. Its easy to get overcomplicated and then all the fun is replaced by stress. It doesn't have to be complicated or expensive, especially at first. Thanks again 👍👍

Hi there and thank you 👍👍 Butterfly, or longfins as they are also called, fall in to the same categories. They are basically koi that have been crossed with something else to give the long fins. So in theory you could have a long finned version of any koi variety although that's not the case yet.

@@DazzleKoi oh my. So they’re hybrids then. Been on this planet for quite awhile now (won’t say how many years), had koi for many of those years….never woulda clued into that one lol. Interesting. Thank you very much for the amazing info.

Your welcome, and thank you for your kind words. Yes I guess they are hybrids, I haven't really thought about it to much, they aren't really common in the UK. Are you in America?, they are more popular over there. Now I think about it though, I wonder what other traits they inherit from the process. They could be more/less hardy depending on what other fish are involved. I do know they don't tend to grow as big.

@@DazzleKoi I’m in Canada, so fairly similar to the US. They are quite common/popular here. They’ve been around and popular for at least 30 years. I think they’re mostly bred in the states and shipped around but we definitely have domestic breeders. Although koi in general are a bit more hard to find here these days. They don’t get as big and are more slender, but they do seem to be a bit hardier. My short research on it just now suggests they are hardier, but I’m sure that depends on the quality in lines being bred. I’m sure not all the breeders have the highest of standards for them unfortunately. They’re stunning to look at though.

Hi Juanito, we are all different in our preferences. I only ever had Go sanke in my previous pond (plus a Chag of course) but now I'm starting to appreciate the other varieties to. I really like Goshiki at the moment 👍👍

Hi rex, now the varieties vid is done I'm turning my attention to the shower. I'm just waiting on some bits arriving but they should be here tomorrow. I just hope its worth the wait 😁

@@DazzleKoi very nice, looking forward to the build.

Indeed, when culling for showa only the black fry are kept. Unlike other varieties you can confidently use this to cull out none showa towards the end of the first week.

Thank you very much Jen, much appreciated 🥂🥂👍👍🥂🥂

Thank you my friend, I have noted that 👍👍

​@@DazzleKoi Thanks for your understanding. NISHIKIGOI read but you guys never call KOI a GOI, right? Take a look at this American teacher's video! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-XtpZzbvh5pY.html よろしくお願いいたします！！

Thats great mate, really interesting, thanks very much 🍻

@@DazzleKoi Ｙｅｓ！！　あいai＋ころもkoromo＝あいごろもaigoromo 　 ｎｏｔ　あいころもaikoromo　こko⇒ごgo

Thanks Peter 🍻👍🍻

Hi Peter, Matsuba was one of the varieties on my list that didn't quite make it in to the video. I had to decide which to drop as there are so many and it wasn't easy. Matsuba translates as 'Pine cone' so the reticulation effect on the scales is said to resemble the needles on a pine cone. Matsubas are metallic and single coloured (not counting the dark colour in the reticulation). And come in 4 colours. Kin, Gin, Ki, and Aka (golden, white/silver, yellow and red) They also come in doitsu varities of the same 4 colours. They come under Kawarimono. Thats interesting, I've never heard that about the mouth before. I'll have to have a look at my sanke 👍👍

Hi Graeme, there is a chance it could be a shusui, does it have any red on it anywhere?

Hi mate, I've never owned one but they are cool. I like the fact they can change so much.

Hi mate, the new white koi you have is a shiro muji. Unfortunately this just happens sometimes. It is in the genetics and was destined to happen all along but there are certain water conditions or even stress etc that can trigger it at different times. It is a sign that the koi is what people deem 'low quality' in that the red is weak and unstable. The koi experts will have been able to pick up on signs that this would happen from a very young age

Hi there, sorry for the delay in replying to you. Matsuba come under the Hikari Muji group, so metallic and single coloured. This is because the dark scalation that they have is not actually a second colour, but instead is a scale pattern.

Hi Paul, you honestly can't have to much air. Its vital for all aspects of koi and pond health and function. I have an EA 70 on my spindrifter bottom drain. I would never recommend throttling back an air pump as the back pressure just reduces the life of the pump. Air does so many things, it creates vital water movement and circulation, in the case of a bottom drain it pushes waste to the drain, it provides oxygen for koi, bacteria etc, it disrupts the surface so that predators can't see your koi so easily, it speeds up gassing off etc etc etc.

@@DazzleKoi many thanks Paul 🙏

Hi Danielle, yeah I hate trying to pronounce names in front of people, its a minefield 😁😁

Hi mate, yes they are really cool. You don't see many big ones but when you do they are amazing. Yes I'd classify it is hikarimoyo. Metallic koi with a pattern

@@DazzleKoi brilliant info thanks for that 😁

Hi Peter, yes its absolutely fine to give them some wheatgerm if they are looking for food. Just take out any food they haven't eaten after 5 minutes. I did a winter feeding video if it is any help to you ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ZUmfHiKRlWE.html

Hi Daz yes seen your video on feeding in the colder months just that my koi are eating well for the time of year just thought I ask you thanks cheers 👍

No problem mate, mine are a bit colder than that and they are still eating once a day. It seems like a lot of people are finding their koi eating better in colder water this year. Still, spring cant come soon enough 🍻

Hi Tony, yes mate, he actually landed on top of my camera at one point 😁

Good to know it was helpful Sir 👍👍