Toledo Goldfish Butterfly Fin Koi, Variety of Colors and Patterns - Perfect for Ponds or Aquariums - 4-5 Inches, 5 Count

The media could not be loaded.  Ordered over weekend, received a message to confirm a good shipping date either sunday or monday, I forget. Shipped monday, arrived Tuesday and the fish are in fabulous condition. They look so energetic and healthy. Theyre stressed out with the adjustment to a salted QT at low pH- my water is extremely soft- comes out of tap like RO.I did make some basic requests to the seller- obviously at this price you cant describe the exact fish you want- but I did tell them Id very much like a platinum, that my pond has shubunkin and a black bottom so Id prefer to avoid dark fins that wont show in my pond and avoid busy calico that will look just like the shubunkin. I thought even going to 3 criteria was a lot when buying fish at this price point... but they did a great job accomidating my request. There are at least 3 platinum, there are some calico, but not many and not as busy as a shubunkin and zero black fins. Impossible to ask for better.Im doing a happy dance - and it seems so are the fish in quarantine, so make sure you cover the quarentine container. They are grazing, picking up everything off the bottom. They were prepared properly for shipping, there was ZERO excrement in the bag AND when opened had no fish smell- thats how you know they care about the fish they ship and spend a couple days preparing them for the journey. None of the fish are skinny- these are fat health babies fasted just for this weeks orders.Some, a small #, are questionable as to whether they can be called butterfly. They are all at least 3+ inches.I could not be happier- a lot of the iffs/butts Im posting are to keep people who are impossible to please or have unrealistic expectations away from this excellent shop. Ive been keeping and breeding tropical fish for 40 years, Ive shipped and recieved a lot of fish - these guys know what they are doing and they are doing it right.If anything goes wrong in QT, Ill update. I planned a 4-6 week quarentine- but right now, if nothing looks wonky, theyll be in the pond in 10 days.80 hour update: since theyre in a QT with an uncycled filter Im not feeding- but I am adding huge quantities of hair algae from the pond with a grow light, to assit in cycling and ammonia uptake between daily water changes.They eat all the hair algae every day. No stringy poop, no clamped fins, no flashing. There is nothing that makes me nervous even a little about any fish.There are more than the 20 I bought. maybe 22, maybe 24- Theyre so active its nearly impossible to count. Extras are so that buyers dont complain about expected losses. I happened to get lucky with perfect temperatures and a literate fedex handler who was gentle with the package marked "live fish".Update May 12- All fish in pond. No reason to continue Quarentine.I now get up with the sun so I can have my coffee with their breakfast, best part of my day.

First time ordering live fish online. Such a great and easy experience. Ordered twenty. Upon arrival one was a little lethargic which was expected, but it made a full recovery! They were packaged well. I have had them for about a month now and they are all doing great and have noticeably increased in size. Definitely would purchase again if and when I need more!

All the fish arrived healthy and all are still going strong except for one that met an unfortunate demise in the skimmer. I’ve also noticed 2 little additions - tiny fry! One is brown and the other has some color coming in but based on this and their size the only conclusion is that they hitched a ride with the others. Curious to see if there are any others yet to make an appearance.

The media could not be loaded.  We had no idea when we got these fish how beautiful and big they would get! It was hard to see them for a long time because they looked like grey skeletons and blended in with our rock. Since we got them at 3-4” they are already 6-7” and the colors are starting to come out. A blue one!?! A little more pricey but worth it.

We have conducted three orders from Toledo over the past few years, which are fabulous. They always deliver earlier than expected, and the fish are in great shape—healthy and swimming. We will order again.

Lori seem like a very nice person. They had shipped very quickly. Fish came looking very good and healthy. Also received 3 extra fish on top of my 20 fish order. If anyone needs fish, I would highly recommend these people if I ever need something for my pond they will be my first place to look for it

Great quality koi plus request specific colors their team try their hard to look what they have in stock try their best to get what I want and they are super healthy except for first few days a bit stress but they all survive shipping extreme fast within 48 hours they will email you

Well, we decided to add a few fish to our well-established 23-year-old koi pond. The mature fish are getting old and they haven't had babies in 2 years. I ordered 10 4-5 inch butterfly Koi from Toldeo. The fish arrived and after floating the bag for a few hours we released them. They all seemed pretty healthy. The next morning, 2 new fish were dead. I wasn't too concerned as it's a stressful thing they just went through. It's understandable. The next day our other fish stopped eating and developed an unknown condition in which they are lethargic and list to one side. No obvious infections. Our koi pond has been illness-free for over two decades. We've lost two mature koi so far and others are sick. The fish I lost today I've had for 17 years. It's sad. I've emailed Toledo for assistance with no response. They do not publish a phone number, which I feel is somewhat irresponsible when you deal with live animals. I feel foolish for trusting them with my pond. I think the thing I'm upset with the most is I can't contact them and they probably have the knowledge to save my fish. If they just cared....