As you look at your beautiful koi fish swimming in your pond, or maybe a friend’s pond, have you ever wondered about how the life of a koi began? It is an interesting story, and below is a little history on some estimated dates that koi originated as well as how their family, carp, were bred for food. This then led to coloured carp and then into the pretty koi fish now known as living jewels today.
Natural colour mutations were first recorded in China in 250 AD, but it was in Japan that the first records of coloured carp being selectively bred were kept, in the
