Breeder: Suda
Suda Fish Farm (須田養魚場) is in Katakai, Ojiya, Niigata, run by Suda Kazutaka across roughly 100,000 square metres. Most of what they produce leaves Japan.
Suda is a metallics and longfin farm. On the Hikarimono side that means Platinum Ogon, Yamabuki Ogon, Doitsu Hariwake, Kikusui, Kujaku and Kin Matsuba. They are also one of the relatively few Japanese farms seriously breeding Hirenaga — longfin koi, which most people know as butterfly koi — along with Tamasaba goldfish. This is not a show Gosanke farm and does not pretend to be.
Butterfly koi divide opinion, and it is worth being straight about why: they are not recognised in traditional Japanese show judging, so you will not see one take a prize at the All Japan. What they are is a different thing to look at — long trailing fins that move constantly, which reads beautifully in a pond and particularly well in a shallow one where the fish is seen from above. On a metallic base, the effect is hard to beat.
Suda koi available now
Everything here was imported by House of Koi. We chose almost every older koi individually at the farm, and those are one-of-a-kind: each listing carries video of that exact fish with its size, sex and year born, and closes when that fish sells. Tosai are bought both ways: we pick many out of the pond ourselves, and others come as a mix we chose at the farm, in which case the listing covers a group of young koi rather than one named fish.
Our Suda selection is exactly the farm's own ground: a Butterfly Goshiki, Ginrin Yamabuki Ogon, Yamabuki Ogon and a butterfly koi mix.
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