Butterfly Koi vs Regular Koi, What's the Difference?

[@TobiasHolenstein]

Fun Fact! Koi means carp in Japanese!

[@atsuminaoki9910]

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[@yngallila230]

I genuinely enjoy your content an videos , always extremely straightforward an helping ! Thank you for your contribution to the hobby an fans !

[@johnbrydges4803]

Thanks for your research efforts Tobias!

[@TobiasHolenstein]

My pleasure John 🙌

[@anaysdearmas-qr9sv]

Thanks ❤ this video was very helpful!

[@TobiasHolenstein]

You're welcome! Glad it was helpful!

[@elizabethr2908]

Love your video Tobias! Really well done! I have 6 butterfly Koi now , still working on my second pond build for them. I think the people into buying really expensive Koi from Japan don’t realize we can get equally beautiful koi from the US and Israel breeders! Butterfly Koi are exactly that, koi but more beautiful because of those spectacular long fins! 🥰❤️

[@baba-vh7hb]

butterfly koi originated in Taiwan, japan failed for the process of regular koi's mutation, but regular koi mutated in Taiwan's environment and becomes butterfly koi, the first successful reproduction of butterfly koi was in Taiwan in the year 2006. In Mandarin, the name is actually Dragon-Pheonix koi.

[@nubijikodong]

Indonesian successful breed the butterfly koi at 1970's. So butterfly koi still originated from Taiwan?

[@vertigoone-one-722]

Thanks for adding the picktures and the shout out bro, I apriciate it! Great vid as always, learned some great things today. Did you know that in some regions / countries they call butterfly koi, dragon koi...

[@TobiasHolenstein]

No problem bro! and thank you! I've heard dragon koi before but I never knew it was a regional thing

[@NaiemCoolzest]

I have 2 butterfly koi in my aquarium and silver arowana as tankmate..

[@TobiasHolenstein]

Nice Arowanas are cool

[@constancejosephinedots]

Butterfly koi are my favorite. They are so elegant.

[@TobiasHolenstein]

Same here I love butterfly koi

[@partyinthecloudkingdom]

even if standard koi were domesticated from a different species, i dont see how that would make butterfly koi "not koi" just because the longtail gene would have been introduced from a hybridization. you dont see people running around saying cat breeds like savannahs and bengals aren't actually domestic cats just because the breeds were founded with hybrids between domestic cats and other feline species. most savannah cats and bengals are very distantly related to their f1 hybrid ancestors, and only resemble their wildcat family members in the fact that both have rosettes and spots, but nobody's running around cat fancier associations and cat shows discoursing that they arent really domesticated cats. it should be the same with butterfly koi. if standard koi were domesticated from the same species of carp than the one that introduced the longtail gene at places like blue ridge, then there should be no problem since theyre the same species. if standard koi and the carp that introduced the longtail gene were different species, hypothetical hybrid butterfly koi have been bred with standard koi for so long that any undesirable hybrid traits have been bred out and the longtail gene remains, making them just as much koi as bengals are domestic cats

[@mikeeljahosafats3231]

Excellent!!

[@courtneyjones-xxxxx1716]

Do you find that there's a size difference with domestic butterfly koi and foreign ones?

[@budiawan1784]

Butterfly koi looks better from side views. Please try keep (and watch) in glass/acrilic tank. (Consider upgrade to massive BIG tank😁)

[@idellbrown1825]

Wondering if there are fish competition for butterfly koi ? When and where. Please address this, very interested and curious. My thoughts are; why not! Thank you for all your great information.

[@aspopulvera9130]

They are like the ones mentioned in the myths which would turn into a dragon

[@morphergaming0531]

They all originate from carp so they are all koi. Differentiating them as not koi is like saying a Chow, Malinois, or Irish Wolfhounds aren't dogs because the weren't breed from the same dogs genetics of the most dog country. While I wholly respect Japan's commitment to advancing the genetics of koi they need to get over it, and by the way many of their have gotten over and are producing long fins.

[@sylar20070]

Great video.. May I ask, what is the best substrate we can use for koi fish in a aquarium? I have 7 koi fish in a aquarium size 4x2x2 (feet), and as for now my floor is empty.. Planning to add some substrate but not sure which is the best for koi fish

[@TobiasHolenstein]

So I think larger stones will be good, like maybe some river pebbles or river rock. I would stay away from smaller gravel or pebbles because from what I have read online, they can be a choking hazard for the fish. I calculated your aquarium water volume and its about 119 gallons. Try to check your parameters as often as possible. I'm guessing this is probably a temporary setup for your koi fish and they are probably still very small right now, but from my experience they will outgrow it pretty quick

[@HaliPaka-pz2yz]

Can butterfly koi live with common goldfish ??

[@eduardowongnunez6732]

Great video

[@TobiasHolenstein]

Thank you! 🙂

[@pradippaul771]

Can I keep regular koi with butterfly koi in a same tank?

[@TobiasHolenstein]

Yes you can keep them together

[@pradippaul771]

& Can I keep Butterfly koi with fancy goldfish in same tank?

[@pradippaul771]

Pls reply me

[@TobiasHolenstein]

@@pradippaul771 So the thing is a lot of people will say that you can not because when you have a long bodied fish like a butterfly koi and a short bodied fish like a fancy goldfish, the long bodied fish will outcompete the short bodied fish for food and the fancy goldfish may not get enough food

[@pradippaul771]

@@TobiasHolenstein thank u

[@pennythatcher1306]

Dude is that a Cozy??? I have one too. I love it!

[@TobiasHolenstein]

It is! Aren't they great?! I wear it all winter haha

[@gourabdas4119]

Sir I'm from india... I'm facing a problem with colour dullness of my butterfly koi carps...they are blackspotted on orange in colours.... their colours becoming fade day by day...so can you give me how to enhance their colours?

[@AnimalsandInfotainmentTube]

Bro, I had the exact same coloured koi like you had. It's colour slowly started fading away, and then, it died 😔

[@jhazzard314]

I learned a lot from this good video!

[@TobiasHolenstein]

Awesome! Thanks so much!

[@pennythatcher1306]

I appreciate your video. And ty for not pulling the fish out of the water to show us. ❤️🐠

[@TobiasHolenstein]

You're welcome! I hate when people pull the fish out of the water

[@jayrockstv255]

can i breed regular koi and butterfly koi together? what is the result??? can anyone answer it,

[@TobiasHolenstein]

Good question! Yes regular koi and butterfly can breed, as for what you will get, I'm not 100%, but I think it is possible to get a variety of regular koi and butterfly koi

[@rajumaulana9334]

yes you can do it, to breed 2 varieties together

[@dartdom]

@@TobiasHolenstein - I hear you can cross-breed Koi and goldfish (or Shubunkin), too, but they are sterile and cannot breed afterwards. I don't think that's the case with reg Koi and Butterfly Koi however.

[@TobiasHolenstein]

@@dartdom yeah I've also heard that with the goldfish and koi

[@AnimalPapaStudios]

Like 12! How are you Tobias? Congratulations on your growth! You are growing like a weed! I'm very happy for you! The pool pond and fish look great! Great information as well! That is some beautiful fish! I actually remember seeing those big ones in your video! I actually really love koi! I agree with you 100%! Keep up the great videos my friend! Have a great weekend! Take care, happy fish keeping and God bless! Animal Papa and Junior! 🐾👍🐠❤️🙏

[@TobiasHolenstein]

Hi James! Thanks so much! I am well, how are you guys? I really love koi as well, I think they are probably my favorite fish 🙂 Take care as well! Happy fish keeping! 🙂

[@joshperry7164]

To be honest I’d say koi are most closely related to mirror and common carp in Europe they are the main fish in most lakes and my local lake that I fish on has koi in it and they are no diffirent whatsoever to mirrors or commons apart from colour

[@NielsTichelaar]

I still dont get why people ask for a like before the video even has started. ask @ the end.

[@beatatarczon1402]

butterfly kois are kois so what is this all about?

[@primieramalantutada2194]

I think butterfly koi swims much slower than the regular one...

[@TobiasHolenstein]

Yeah that may be true, although mine seems to swim pretty fast haha. I had to move him into a new pool pond earlier in the year and he was really hard to catch lol

[@cloudcastle338]

Butterfly koi fish AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH I like butterflies I like koi fish so I guess I like butterfly koi fish

[@TobiasHolenstein]

Haha yes! Butterfly koi are awesome

[@trillionbones89]

i thought "koi" is just the japanese word for karp :D

[@bangxuevang7683]

It is believed that the term “koi” came from the Japanese word “goi”. Koi can be more formally called nishikigoi. In Japan, the “common brown carp” is called “magoi”. When breeding these koi. Breeders will use other breeder’s koi as spawning parents or “oyagoi”. Some breeders such as Matsunoske have included magoi into his nishikigoi bloodline to achievement darker rich sumi(black) our of his gosanke. Other terms such as tategoi can be used as “future koi”.

[@Riley095]

Overstocked

[@angrypotatoez]

Karp eh dium

[@TobiasHolenstein]

hehe

[@MrSamurai137]

Fish racism 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@TobiasHolenstein]

Pretty much 😂

[@MrSamurai137]

@@TobiasHolenstein some times the Japanese can be a bit protectionist especially with the national treasures. Though can’t we all (I’m in 🇬🇧). This can be for some good reason I.e protection don’t ruin a good thing! Though you can lose out of enrichment of Evolution and development. This is a natural order of things Natural koi vs butterfly koi all winners in my book . Amazing fish thanks for Sharing.

[@reymartbayotas6989]

can you give me some of your koi?

[@MrDon967]

butterfly koi, the African males of the koi race hehe :D

[@JC-cv4ut]

Man or woman???