Koi and Goldfish Together

Are you building a koi pond and thinking of putting koi and goldfish together?

Perhaps you have already built your backyard pond and have goldfish and koi together in your pond. For those of you who have yet to build your fish pond, the good news is that you’re thinking before you act. A great deal of pond problems can be resolved before they happen simply by learning more about ponds and how to properly build and maintain them. 

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Koi and Goldfish Having Babies

At times both your koi and your goldfish just might have babies. The problem with this is that the babies are vulnerable to becoming both koi and goldfish food. The babies need a place to hide from all other hungry predators. Sometimes you’ll find that these babies, at least some of them will survive to grow big enough to no longer resemble a snack for your koi or goldfish. However, most times you’ll probably find they disappear into the fish bellies of your koi or goldfish.

Koi and Goldfish - Perhaps a Single Species Solution

Although koi are a favorite of pond building enthusiasts, goldfish are a wonderful pond pet and can bring a lot of colorful joy as well. They are also less expensive to purchase. Many people discover their feeder goldfish survive to grow quite large in their ponds as well. Another good point of deciding on goldfish instead of koi is that you will not have to worry about the koi eating the fins or bubble eyes of certain goldfish species.

Goldfish and Koi Separate Means Less Stress on You

The simple solution to no worries with koi eating your goldfish babies or bothering the large eyed goldfish species that the koi will many times munch on is to only have goldfish in your pond. The other solution to owning both goldfish and koi together is to make sure your goldfish are as big as your koi. Do not buy the species of goldfish that have big eyeballs as the koi will probably eat them. And lastly, consider any babies born as feeder fish and part of the circle of life. It happens, get over it. ;) Or um… you know, the other suggestion of “not” having both koi and goldfish in the same pond.