Koi Nets & Handling

How you move a koi matters as much as the water it lives in. Fins split, scales shed and slime coats wipe off in the wrong net, and every one of those is an infection route. The Japanese method keeps the fish in water the whole way: corral with a flat pan net, transfer in a water-holding sock net, and the koi never hangs in mesh or takes its own weight.

Everything on this page serves that method. Pan nets in 12" to 24" for close work at tanks, telescopic catch nets to 40" for reaching a jumbo mid-pond, sock nets in wood and stainless for the actual move, and PondMAX telescopic nets for goldfish and daily debris. If you only buy one net for handling good koi, buy the sock net.

Not sure which sizes fit your fish and your pond? Tell us what you keep and we will spec the set. We net and move koi every working day at our San Jose facility.

Japanese koi pan net, viewing bowl and sock net on a stone ledge at the edge of a koi pond.

Worth knowing before you buy

Ground rules and answers from the ponds we run every day in San Jose.

Common questions

I am not sure what I need. Can you just tell me?οΌ‹

Gladly, and this is genuinely the fastest route. Send us your pond volume, your depth, roughly how many koi you keep and how big they are, your plumbing size, and the height from the pond surface up to your filter return. That is everything we need to size a system properly.

We have been building and maintaining koi ponds from San Jose since 1998, and we run this gear on our own systems. We would rather talk you into the right pump than sell you the biggest one.

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