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Southern California Koi Rescue Non-profit animal rescue serving CA, NV, and AZ, specializing in large Japanese koi fish, turtles, and other pond pets | 909-255-0692

If you require a large koi rescue within the greater San Francisco Bay Area, we can help! A registered non-profit organ...
14/07/2025

If you require a large koi rescue within the greater San Francisco Bay Area, we can help! A registered non-profit organization, Southern California Koi Rescue has completed hundreds of large koi rescues since 2008 while successfully finding new forever homes for literally thousands of precious living jewels. We offer free onsite koi rescue services throughout California, Arizona and Nevada. Please submit your free koi rescue request today...

https://socalkoirescue.com/koi-fish-rescues/

If you require a large koi rescue within the greater Southern California Orange County area we can help! A registered n...
14/07/2025

If you require a large koi rescue within the greater Southern California Orange County area we can help! A registered non-profit organization, Southern California Koi Rescue has completed hundreds of large koi rescues since 2008 while successfully finding new forever homes for literally thousands of precious living jewels. We offer free onsite koi rescue services throughout California, Arizona and Nevada. Please submit your free koi rescue request today...

https://socalkoirescue.com/koi-fish-rescues/

If you require a large koi rescue within the greater Los Angeles metro area we can help! A registered non-profit, South...
14/07/2025

If you require a large koi rescue within the greater Los Angeles metro area we can help! A registered non-profit, Southern California Koi Rescue has completed hundreds of large koi rescues since 2008 while successfully finding new forever homes for literally thousands of precious living jewels. We offer free onsite koi rescue services throughout California, Arizona and Nevada. Please submit your free koi rescue request today...

https://socalkoirescue.com/koi-fish-rescues/

If you require a large koi rescue within Riverside or San Bernardino Counties we can help! A registered non-profit orga...
13/07/2025

If you require a large koi rescue within Riverside or San Bernardino Counties we can help! A registered non-profit organization, Southern California Koi Rescue has completed hundreds of large koi rescues since 2008 while successfully finding new forever homes for literally thousands of precious living jewels. We offer free onsite koi rescue services throughout California, Arizona and Nevada. Please submit your free koi rescue request today...

https://socalkoirescue.com/koi-fish-rescues/

What is KHV?Koi Herpesvirus, commonly known as KHV, is a highly contagious viral disease that affects both common carp a...
13/07/2025

What is KHV?

Koi Herpesvirus, commonly known as KHV, is a highly contagious viral disease that affects both common carp and ornamental koi fish. KHV infections can often lead to significant mortality, quickly wiping out entire ponds. This explains why KHV is such a serious concern for fish farmers and hobbyists, as it greatly impacts both commercial fisheries and ornamental ponds.

Common symptoms of KHV include gill damage, sunken eyes, and skin lesions. These symptoms can be especially problematic in warm water conditions, but it is also possible for KHV to cause mortality for koi that show no symptoms. Koi that survive an outbreak can become lifelong carriers and transmit the virus to others.

There is currently no treatment available for KHV in the USA, however, some “active immunization” efforts are ongoing in Israel. The only way to confirm presence of KHV is via a lab test. Since it is not practical to test every new koi addition for KHV, new koi additions should be quarantined for at least 30 days at 75°F to monitor for signs of KHV before introducing them to your pond.

https://socalkoirescue.com/koi-quarantine/

Every once in a while we receive an angry comment from someone upset about our sharing our honest assessment regarding A...
11/07/2025

Every once in a while we receive an angry comment from someone upset about our sharing our honest assessment regarding Aquascape design water features being woefully unfit for longterm koi health. Almost without exception, these negative comments tend to originate from “certified” landscapers who rely on the Aquascape business model to earn a living.

As a registered non profit organization, we do not sell any competing products nor services. Our sole agenda is to help ensure the beautiful living jewels entrusted to our care are placed into suitable new forever homes. For this reason alone, we strongly prefer to make our rescued koi fish available to proper koi ponds only. While both can be aesthetically appealing, a water garden (typical Aquascape water feature) and a proper koi pond are not the same.

A proper koi pond design can achieve and maintain optimal water quality at typical koi stocking rates while requiring a minimal maintenance workload for the pond owner. In addition, a proper koi pond design also offers virtually zero ongoing service costs, because annual pond clean-outs are not required and you’ll never have to buy a pond vacuum nor hire your contractor to come back to replace the gravel and rocks left on your pond floor.

If you are planning to add a pond to your own backyard, we highly encourage you to do your own research. Be sure to speak with leading koi breeders, koi dealers and pond builders then form your own opinions…

https://socalkoirescue.com/unfit-for-koi-assessment-of-aquascape-ponds/

Prices for large Japanese koi fish purchased from a traditional koi dealer are not cheap. But as avid koi collectors ou...
11/07/2025

Prices for large Japanese koi fish purchased from a traditional koi dealer are not cheap. But as avid koi collectors ourselves, we believe these beautiful living jewels are well worth every penny — if you can afford it. Unfortunately, these prices can be a bit out of reach for some. So for hobbyists seeking large koi on a limited budget, koi adoption can be a great option worth considering.

Our special hosted koi adoption events provide a unique opportunity for many koi keepers to add gorgeous fish to their ponds which they might otherwise be unable to afford. The minimal rehoming fees charged during these events are a tiny fraction of typical koi dealer wholesale cost. The available selection to choose from during these events also rivals what you are likely to find when visiting many local koi shops.

The sole purpose of our hosted koi adoption events is to help us find suitable new forever homes for some of the precious living creatures entrusted to our care. For this reason, an approved koi adoption request form is required for all private hobbyists wishing to schedule an appointment to attend. Dependent on sufficient interest amongst approved hobbyists wishing to attend, these events are typically scheduled once every 6-8 weeks.

https://socalkoirescue.com/hosted-koi-adoption-events/

If you require a large koi rescue within the greater San Diego area we can help! A registered non-profit, Southern Cali...
09/07/2025

If you require a large koi rescue within the greater San Diego area we can help! A registered non-profit, Southern California Koi Rescue has completed hundreds of large koi rescues since 2008 while successfully finding new forever homes for literally thousands of precious living jewels. We offer free onsite koi rescue services throughout California, Arizona and Nevada. Please submit your free koi rescue request today...

https://socalkoirescue.com/koi-fish-rescues/

While there are several steps you can take to help maintain optimal koi fish health, in the end koi fish are still livin...
09/07/2025

While there are several steps you can take to help maintain optimal koi fish health, in the end koi fish are still living creatures. Sometimes even if you follow the strictest of quarantine procedures and provide exceptional water quality, koi can still become ill and koi losses can still occur. Why? Because in the end koi fish are not household appliances, and therefore they do not come with a factory warranty.

This fact remains true whether you spend thousands of dollars to purchase high quality Japanese koi from a reputable koi dealer or if you are given a small koi fish as a gift from one of your trusted friends. While all koi losses hurt, these losses also tend to feel exponentially worse the higher the price paid. So if you’ve already had this experience, then perhaps koi adoption might be a good fit for you.

Koi adoption provides private hobbyists a unique opportunity to add some truly beautiful living jewels to their ponds at a tiny fraction of typical koi dealer wholesale cost all while supporting a true nonprofit animal rescue. If you would like to attend one of our special hosted koi adoption events, please submit a completed koi adoption request today…

https://socalkoirescue.com/koi-adoptions/

As a registered animal rescue, our sole mission is to find suitable new forever homes for the beautiful living jewels en...
07/07/2025

As a registered animal rescue, our sole mission is to find suitable new forever homes for the beautiful living jewels entrusted to our care.  In addition to large koi fish rescues, we also consistently receive a very high volume of turtle rescue requests.  Unfortunately, we have been unable to accommodate all these requests due to a lack of resources and insufficient room available in our dedicated turtle pond habitat. 

Our dedicated turtle pond habitat is intended to serve as a temporary home for our rescued turtles while they await permanent placement through adoption.  Due to extremely high demand for turtle rescues, in October 2023 we invested significant resources to completely rebuild our dedicated turtle pond habitat. This upgrade allows us to safely care for significantly more turtles awaiting new forever homes. 

Unfortunately, the demand for turtle rescues will continue to far exceed our capacity.  Therefore, effective January 1, 2024 a fee of $20 USD per turtle will be required for all turtle rescues/surrenders.  This donation will help to offset some of our costs for caring for your turtle(s) while we diligently work to find them suitable new forever homes…

https://socalkoirescue.com/turtle-rescues/

We often receive inquiries from fellow koi keepers asking which koi medications and pond treatments we recommend. Two o...
07/07/2025

We often receive inquiries from fellow koi keepers asking which koi medications and pond treatments we recommend. Two of the koi health treatments we both highly recommend and commonly use ourselves include KOI PRAZI and KOI NITRO.

Flukes are among the most common koi parasites and can be found during routine scoping in virtually any established koi pond. KOI PRAZI, “the fluke destroyer” is both the freshest and the purest praziquantel powder available on the market. We have used this product ourselves for many years and consider it to be a critical MUST-HAVE treatment for any serious hobbyist.

Tissue damage caused by flukes and other koi parasite attacks can quickly lead to bacterial infections. And if left untreated, these bacterial infections can quickly spiral out of control, often resulting in fish losses. This is exactly where KOI NITRO, “the bacteria buster” comes in. While being both extremely safe and easy to use, KOI NITRO quickly removes deadly anaerobic bacteria which often causes infections leading to ulcers in koi and other pond fish.

Besides being of much higher quality than competitor products on the market, these products are also available at a far more economical price. While we often have both KOI PRAZI and KOI NITRO available for purchase during our hosted koi adoption events, you can also buy them on Amazon, eBay, or from our friends

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Many years ago we had a very candid conversation with one of our mentors in the koi pond world. Being a well-known and ...
07/07/2025

Many years ago we had a very candid conversation with one of our mentors in the koi pond world. Being a well-known and respected koi dealer and direct koi importer, this mentor still regularly travels to Japan to purchase top quality Japanese koi fish for resale. And while many of these imported koi are listed for sale at prices in the thousands of dollars, to us they are well worth every penny — if you can afford it.

Despite this mentor’s long-standing reputation in the hobby, we will never forget the time when this mentor once told us that if he never sold another koi in his life that it wouldn’t matter to him at all. This comment took us by surprise, because back then we had only recently caught the “koi bug” ourselves. And at the time, nothing sounded better to us than getting gorgeous koi fish direct from the breeder.

But back then we were also naive, because we didn’t yet understand all the work, time, and cost required to keep all those beautiful living jewels healthy. And unlike our mentor, we had also never risked a small fortune to acquire Japanese koi wholesale only to watch them ravaged by parasites and infections in quarantine long before they could be resold to retail customers.

Today many of our on-site rescues are actually referred to us by Southern California koi dealers, many of whom we consider to be close personal friends. In the end, what we do is all about the hobby. We have the upmost respect for koi dealers and continue to support them any way we can. In fact, many of the koi made available for adoption during our events were originally purchased from these very same dealers.

If you would like to help save a life while also saving money by adding some beautiful fish to your pond, we hope to see you at one of our special hosted koi adoption events…

https://socalkoirescue.com/hosted-koi-adoption-events/

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