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Kohaku Koi for sale 紅白

How to identify a Kohaku Koi

White body with red (hi) markings — the foundational koi variety and the most prized in competition. Judges look for snow-white ground, deep even red with crisp edges (kiwa), and balanced step patterns down the back.

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336 currently listed across 11 dealers, from $18 to $24,999 — updated daily.

What kohaku koi cost

Grade Typical price (6–10″ unless noted)
Pond / garden quality $50 – $1,025
High grade / import up to $2,000
Show grade $5,000+

Top Japanese-bred kohaku from lines like Dainichi and Sakai regularly sell for five to six figures.

Size, body conformation, and breeder line move prices more than variety alone — see the full koi price guide.

Dealers that carry kohaku koi

ATX Koi

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Austin, TX Local pickup only $ $$ $$$

ATX Koi is an Austin, Texas koi retailer run by Rajat and Lisa Agarwal, offering a rotating inventory of Japanese and domestic koi alongside pond consulting, maintenance, water testing, and non-veterinary koi health services. The business sells online but is local-pickup-only by appointment at its Austin property, with no shipping or delivery currently offered.

  • Kohaku Koi
  • Showa Koi
  • Sanke Koi
  • Shiro Utsuri
  • +14 more

Catharpin, VA Local pickup only $$$ show

Blue Ribbon Koi & Marine is a family-owned aquatics shop in Catharpin, Virginia that traces back to 1986, when its founders were among the founding members of the Mid-Atlantic Koi Club. Originally a koi-focused hobbyist business, it expanded into marine livestock in 2005 and broader freshwater fish and aquascaping supplies in 2022. The shop sells individually priced, photographed WYSIWYG Japanese koi — Showa, Sanke, Kohaku, Shiro Utsuri, Doitsu, Gin Rin, and Ochiba Shigure lines running roughly $800 to $1,800 each — for in-store pickup only; koi are not shipped, unlike the store's coral and dry-goods inventory.

  • Showa Koi
  • Sanke Koi
  • Kohaku Koi
  • Shiro Utsuri
  • +3 more

Cali Koi

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North Hollywood, CA Ships nationwide $$$ show

Cali Koi is a North Hollywood, California dealer, founded in 2004, that imports Japanese nishikigoi through relationships its owner built directly with breeders and agents in Japan. Alongside retail koi sales spanning pond-grade to high-end show fish, the business also offers pond and lake management consulting, koi rescue, and pond maintenance and installation services.

  • Kohaku Koi
  • Sanke Koi
  • Showa Koi
  • Goromo Koi
  • +5 more

ChampKoi

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San Jose, CA Ships nationwide $$ $$$ show

ChampKoi (Champion Nishikigoi) is a San Jose, California online koi dealer founded in 1998 by hobbyist-turned-importer Tom Lai. It sells premium Japanese koi hand-selected directly from named Niigata- and Hiroshima-area breeder farms, ships nationwide overnight, and publishes individual breeder profiles so buyers can see which farm produced each fish before purchase.

  • Kohaku Koi
  • Showa Koi
  • Sanke Koi
  • Asagi Koi
  • +5 more

Ocala, FL Ships nationwide $ $$

Chevy's Quality Koi is a small, owner-operated breeding farm in Ocala, Florida run by Brad, who has built a stable of breeder koi to sell quality, affordably priced fish. The farm ships nationwide on a Monday/Tuesday schedule with shipping cost based on box size and destination, and also welcomes appointment visits to hand-select from its Butterfly and Standard Fin koi, including Kohaku, Kujaku, and Matsuba varieties.

  • Kohaku Koi
  • Kujaku Koi
  • Matsuba Koi
  • Butterfly Koi

La Center, WA Ships nationwide $$ $$$ show

Children of the Sun Koi, doing business as Cots Koi, is a Washington State importer founded in 2004 that sources exclusively from named Japanese breeders including Dainichi, Ikarashi, Maruyama, Izumiya, and Torazo Koi Farms rather than breeding its own stock. It carries Gosanke varieties, Shiro Utsuri, and Ginrin koi across a wide price range, with a live-arrival guarantee that applies to air-cargo shipments but not to UPS shipments. It is included in this Northeast/Midwest research batch even though it is West Coast-based, per the assigned task scope. Note: it competes in the same national import-focused segment as some larger East and West Coast dealers.

  • Kohaku Koi
  • Sanke Koi
  • Showa Koi
  • Shiro Utsuri
  • +1 more

Conroe, TX Ships nationwide $ $$

Crystal Creek Koi Farm is a small, family-owned koi farm based in Conroe, Texas (Houston metro) that raises its own hand-selected koi from Japanese bloodlines and also carries its own Blackwater-brand koi food line. It is an online-only business with no public retail storefront or walk-in visits, shipping live koi nationwide via UPS Next Day Air every Wednesday under a live arrival guarantee.

  • Kohaku Koi
  • Hi Utsuri
  • Shiro Utsuri
  • Kumonryu Koi
  • +6 more

Genki Koi

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San Jose, CA Ships nationwide $$ $$$ show

Genki Koi is a San Jose, California koi importer founded in 1997, run by owner Kevin who travels to Japan several times a year to hand-select fish from more than 50 Niigata and Hiroshima breeders including Dainichi and Isa. It sells a broad range of traditional and metallic varieties online with nationwide shipping.

  • Asagi Koi
  • Bekko Koi
  • Doitsu Koi
  • Gin Rin Koi
  • +8 more

Grand Koi

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Douglasville, GA Ships nationwide $$ $$$

Grand Koi is a Japanese koi importer based near Atlanta in Douglasville, Georgia, describing itself as one of the largest US stockers of imported koi and citing preferred-buyer relationships with Japanese breeders including Dainichi, Sakai, and Momotaro. The company screens, quarantines, and acclimates koi at its Georgia facility before shipping to customers across the continental United States.

  • Kohaku Koi
  • Showa Koi
  • Sanke Koi

Spring, TX Ships nationwide $$ $$$

Infinity Koi Farm is a Spring, Texas-based online koi retailer serving the Houston area and shipping nationwide. It sells premium Japanese-bloodline koi (including fish from named Japan farms like Shinoda) alongside more affordable domestic stock, quarantines every fish for 5-7 days before shipping, and backs orders with a 100% live arrival guarantee. The business currently operates without a public retail storefront, shipping via UPS/air cargo Monday through Thursday.

  • Kohaku Koi
  • Sanke Koi
  • Hi Utsuri
  • Shiro Utsuri
  • +5 more

Amana, IA Ships nationwide $ $$

Kloubec Koi Farm is a family-owned Iowa hatchery, started in 1981 and focused on koi since the early 1990s, that breeds all of its own stock from Japanese-blooded parent fish on 80 acres of ponds rather than importing live koi. It ships nationwide with a live-delivery and USDA health-certification guarantee, and also allows Saturday, appointment-only farm visits during the season.

  • Kohaku Koi
  • Sanke Koi
  • Showa Koi
  • Shusui Koi
  • +7 more

Mililani, HI Ships nationwide $$ $$$ show

Kodama Koi Farm has been farming koi in Mililani, Hawaii since 1969 and operates as both a breeder and a major importer, running weekly online auctions of fish sourced directly from top Niigata breeders such as Dainichi, Isa, and Marudo. It ships nationwide by air cargo from Hawaii and runs an additional retail location, Kodama Koi Garden, in New York.

  • Kohaku Koi
  • Showa Koi
  • Sanke Koi
  • Shiro Utsuri
  • +9 more

Koi Fish USA

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Enola, PA Ships nationwide $ $$

Koi Fish USA is an online-only koi and butterfly koi retailer operated by Cumberland Valley Koi, LLC out of Enola, Pennsylvania. It focuses exclusively on live fish, offering next-day nationwide delivery, a 14-day live-arrival guarantee, and over 100 standard and butterfly koi varieties, though it does not publicly disclose whether stock is bred in-house or sourced from other farms.

  • Kohaku Koi
  • Sanke Koi
  • Showa Koi
  • Tancho Koi
  • +17 more

Laguna Beach, CA Ships nationwide $$ $$$ show

Laguna Koi Ponds is an Orange County koi retailer in Laguna Beach, California that has operated since 1982. The business maintains roughly 35,000 gallons of display ponds stocked with imported Japanese koi hand-selected from breeders including Koshiji, Ikarashi, Sakazume, and Otsuka, alongside pond design, filtration, and equipment services, with inventory ranging from a few hundred dollars to show-quality fish priced up to $30,000.

  • Kohaku Koi
  • Sanke Koi
  • Showa Koi
  • Asagi Koi
  • +5 more

Las Vegas, NV Local pickup only $ $$

Las Vegas Koi & Water Gardens is a Las Vegas, Nevada pond and koi specialty business that sells only koi fish (no other livestock), offering varieties including kohaku, sanke, showa, bekko, tancho, asagi, gin rin, and butterfly koi. Fish are quarantined before sale, and the company personally delivers koi to customers' ponds in the Las Vegas area rather than shipping nationally.

  • Kohaku Koi
  • Bekko Koi
  • Tancho Koi
  • Sanke Koi
  • +5 more

Miami, FL Local pickup only $$ $$$

Miami Koi Farm is a South Florida koi dealer at 18900 SW 232nd Street in Miami that imports Japanese koi and pairs fish sales with pond design, build, and tiki-furniture services. The business emphasizes personal consultations and in-person selection rather than an online storefront, and displays Sanke, Kohaku, and Showa varieties among its stock.

  • Sanke Koi
  • Kohaku Koi
  • Showa Koi

Upland, CA Ships nationwide $ $$ $$$

Mystic Koi & Water Gardens is a family-owned shop in Upland, California that has operated since 1996 as, by its own description, the largest Southern California specialty retailer of imported Japanese koi and water-gardening supplies. The three-quarter-acre property carries an unusually wide range of named varieties sourced from Japanese breeders including Sekiguchi, Omosako, and Sakai Fish Farm, alongside plants, filtration, and pond-care products.

  • Kohaku Koi
  • Sanke Koi
  • Showa Koi
  • Shiro Utsuri
  • +16 more

Next Day Koi

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Kernersville, NC Ships nationwide $ $$

Next Day Koi is an online koi and goldfish retailer, shipping since 2006, that sources primarily from Aquamade, an Israeli breeder cooperative, rather than Japanese farms. It ships nationwide via UPS Next Day Air with a point-and-click ordering process, volume discounts, and a 14-day live arrival guarantee, though its own site does not disclose a public storefront address.

  • Kohaku Koi
  • Showa Koi
  • Sanke Koi
  • Asagi Koi
  • +2 more

Play It Koi

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Bothell, WA Ships nationwide $ $$

Play It Koi is a pond supply and koi retailer based in Bothell, Washington, founded in 2014, that imports hand-selected Japanese koi from breeders including Kodama and Dainichi and ships live fish nationwide via express overnight service, alongside a full line of pond equipment and appointment-only in-person visits.

  • Kohaku Koi
  • Showa Koi
  • Sanke Koi
  • Butterfly Koi

Las Vegas, NV Local pickup only $ $$

Pond Builders Las Vegas is a Las Vegas, Nevada pond construction and maintenance company that also sells live koi fish, listing about twenty varieties including kohaku, sanke, showa, asagi, shusui, bekko, goshiki, tancho, chagoi, ogon, doitsu, and kumonryu. The site directs buyers to call for current availability rather than purchase online, indicating local, in-person sales rather than nationwide shipping.

  • Kohaku Koi
  • Sanke Koi
  • Showa Koi
  • Asagi Koi
  • +8 more

Glynn, LA Ships nationwide $$ $$$

Purdin Koi Farm has bred American-bred koi from Japanese Gosanke bloodlines since 1990 on a former plantation property in southeastern Louisiana, about 30 minutes from Baton Rouge. The farm focuses on Kohaku, Sanke, and Showa, ships koi domestically within the US with a defined live-arrival credit policy, and also welcomes farm visits and hosts judging events for the koi community.

  • Kohaku Koi
  • Sanke Koi
  • Showa Koi

Rocklin, CA Ships to 49 states $$ $$$

Sacramento Koi is a family-owned importer of Japanese koi based in Rocklin, California, operating since 2000. It sells hand-selected imported koi online and through a storefront, runs new arrivals through an extended in-house quarantine before sale, and also manufactures its own U.S.-made pond filtration equipment under the Sacramento Koi / Advantage brand.

  • Kohaku Koi
  • Showa Koi
  • Ochiba Koi
  • Hi Utsuri
  • +3 more

Marietta, GA Local pickup only $$ $$$

Splendor Koi & Pond is a full-service koi and water-garden store in Marietta, Georgia, established in 2007, offering what it calls the largest koi selection in the Southeast alongside pond design, installation, and maintenance. Koi are sold in-store or by phone consultation rather than shipped, spanning varieties from Kohaku and Sanke to Kujaku and Goshiki.

  • Kohaku Koi
  • Sanke Koi
  • Showa Koi
  • Asagi Koi
  • +5 more

The Koi Tank

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Wales, WI Local pickup only $ $$

The Koi Tank is a Wales, Wisconsin storefront stocking exotic Japanese, Philippine, South African, and domestic koi year-round, including doitsu, butterfly, and metallic varieties. The shop has temporarily suspended shipping due to high freight costs, so all koi purchases currently require in-person or local pickup from its Wales location.

  • Doitsu Koi
  • Kohaku Koi
  • Butterfly Koi
  • Bekko Koi
  • +2 more

Utah Koi

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West Jordan, UT Ships nationwide $ $$

Utah Koi is a West Jordan, Utah dealer founded in 1987 by owner Robyn Kasteler, one of the state's earliest koi retailers. The business sells imported Japanese koi and fancy goldfish alongside pond filtration equipment and design consultations, operating primarily by appointment out of its West Jordan location.

  • Kohaku Koi
  • Hi Utsuri

Mount Croghan, SC Ships nationwide $ $$ $$$

Waterwheel Japanese Koi Farm is a family-run koi farm in the Sandhills region of South Carolina (Mount Croghan) that sells three distinct tiers of koi: Japanese imports sourced from named Niigata breeders including Hiroi, Maruhiro, Marudo, Suda, and Otsuka; homebred F1 koi bred in-house from its own Japanese broodstock; and more affordable domestic pond-quality fish. The farm quarantines every import, ships nationwide to the lower 48 with a live arrival guarantee, and offers free local pickup and by-appointment farm visits.

  • Kohaku Koi
  • Sanke Koi
  • Showa Koi

White Marsh, MD Ships nationwide $ $$ $$$

Webb's Water Gardens is a family-owned pond and koi supplier based in White Marsh, Maryland, operating since 1981 and now run by its third generation. It sells both American-bred koi across Standard, Premium, and Premium Select grades and koi imported directly from Japanese breeders, in standard and long-fin butterfly forms, plus skeleton and metallic Hikari mixes. Individual fish and bulk lots ship nationwide with free shipping on orders over $49, with prices ranging from roughly $16 per fish in bulk standard lots up to $500 for a single 10-12 inch Japanese import.

  • Kohaku Koi
  • Showa Koi
  • Ogon Koi
  • Platinum Ogon
  • +2 more