how much could i get for them?

[RockabillyChick]

my parents have a 150 gallon pond in their front yard with 6 koi and 2 goldfish. they are seriously outgrowing it. we're going to build them a larger pond in the back yard, but our yard is small and i think no matter how big we make it, it will still be too small for all those fish once they're adults.

i am considering selling a couple of the koi. i have a metallic gold and black snakeskin koi that is about 8-10 inches long, an orange metallic koi that is about 10-12 inches long, two butterfly koi, one black and white, one kind of a peachy color, that are i think 6-8 inches not counting their tails, and one blue koi that is a good 12 inches. he's a lighter gray blue with darker blue spekles all over him. and also a little 5" platinum koi.

this is the blue koi, so you can see his color. that is a 6" wide net, and as you can see, he's sticking right out of the top of it. this picture was also taken LAST YEAR.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v65/Celeste_Eden/koi.jpg

these fish were all bought at about 2-3 inches of length at various LFS for about $5 or less. they're not specially bred or anything. i'm just wondering what i might be able to get for them, IF i decide to sell them.

[frloplady]

Depends..someone might pay a bit more for something unusual. Some might pay a little bit more for larger koi. Some may pay $30-$50, some might not be willing to pay much more than what you paid for them. Do something quickly in spring as they are way to big for 150 gallons. For 6 koi probably at least a 1500 gallon pond minimum 1000. 1000 gallons should be the minimum size for koi at all, 6 in 1000 gallons is pushing it. Koi are big water fish..not little water fish as you have found out! They are a lot dirtier than goldies too.

Hope you can build a bigger pond to keep them. A new home with a bigger pond would be worth trying to find for them otherwise.

[Flowerhorn916]

a lfs may give you 10ea for them

[*TJ]

LFS would offer you a store credit not money. Being lowly pond grade of no real variety $15 is the max you could expect, and that is for the largest(12"), the little ogon if it's 'clean' could be of more value but not much for the size.

Try to see if your area has a local koi and watergarden club,... they might be able to help you rehome the koi you wish to get rid of.