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Classification of a fish koi

Fish koi have many different colors. Some of the major colors are white, black, red, yellow, blue, and cream.

If you have seriously decided to get at yourselves which, the good management necessarily is required to you to understand complex classification koi will learn to look after them. The basic breeds differing on painting, are shown on this village; besides WHICH differ on a structure of a surface of a body. The majority of breeds does not have metal shine, but at popular breed last years Ð¾Ð³Ð¾Ð½ the scales has metal shine - golden or silvery (Platinum ogon).
The version deduced in Germany Doitsu at all has no scales, except for several strips from large scales on each side or on a back. Transparent fish koi have imperceptible brown or grey painting.

Kohaku - a white-skinned Koi, with a red pattern
Taisho Sanshoku (Sanke) - a white-skinned Koi with a red and black pattern
Showa Sanshoku (Showa) - a black-skinned Koi with a red and white pattern
Tancho - Any koi with the only red being in a circle on its forehead. The fish can be a Tancho Showa, Tancho Sanke, or even Tancho Goshiki
Asagi - a Koi with light blue scales on its top and red scales on its bottom
Shusui - the partially scaled version of an Asagi
Bekko - a white, red, or yellow-skinned Koi with a black pattern
Utsurimono - a black Koi with a red, white, or yellow pattern
Goshiki - a mostly black Koi with red, white, brown, and blue accents
Ogon - a Koi that is one solid color, can be regular or metallic; known colors - red, orange, platinum, yellow and cream
Kin Gin Rin - a Koi with shiny scales. The name translates into English as "Gold Silver Scales" There are also Gin Rin versions of almost any other type of koi.
Kawarimono (kawarigoi) - Miscellaneous types of Koi
Koromo - Koi with areas of blue-edged scales aligned neatly
Hikari-Moyomono - Koi with coloured patterns over a metallic base, and koi in two metallic colours
Ghost koi - "Hybrid" of Ogon and wild carp. Not Nishikigoi.
Butterfly koi - Long-finned version of all others. Not Nishikigoi