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Koi Scale Patterns

With dropsy the scales stand out due to the fishes body swelling to the degree it pushes the scale outward and gives this open pine cone affect.

Koi scale patterns. Seamless blue river fish scales. Two shells attached at one pivot point. Among scaled koi there are further ways to differentiate scale type.

Seamless pattern from fishes. Tancho showa are black koi with white markings and a red spot on the head only and silver scales. Wagoi is a term used to describe any fully scaled koi one with normal scales like any other fish species that most folks are used to.

Also known as a pine cone pattern matsuba consists of black markings in the center of the scales that give the koi a pine cone like appearance. The body of a goromo koi fish is white colored with a red orange pattern on the body just like a kohaku koi fish. A reticulated pattern achieves a net like visual effect.

Hand drawn black and white doodle seamless patterns set. Fish carp koi scales seamless pattern set. What makes it different from the kohaku is the blue colored net like pattern of the scales on each of the red colored scaly patches that are present on the body of a goromo koi fish.

Matsuba is one popular scalation. Tancho goshiki are five colored koi with red spot on the head and silver scales. Much like the typical mirror carp the shusui has a singular lining of koi fish scales on the dorsum bringing it closer to its carp ancestor.

Kujaku are koi with a solid white base accented by a black net pattern along with patterns of red orange yellow. Showa is a black koi with red and white patches named for its development in the showa era whereas kohaku and taisho sanshoku have red and or black markings on the white ground showa sanshoku have red markings on white patterns formed on the black background. Well a fish scale is similar but they are flat and hollow in the center.

Set of reptile skin seamless patterns. The peculiar koi scale patterns and the contrasting rare koi colors made the shusui koi an instant hit among koi fish hobbyists. Koi fish scale x2 eelgrass strand x2 lilypad wax x2 silk rope x3.

Vintage pattern of shells. The net pattern is created by a black edging on each individual scale. Scale patterns koi also come in various scale patterns which also are given particular names and used as adjectives when describing a certain fish or variety breed of fish.

Tancho kohaku are white koi with red spot on the head only and silver scales. Variations of kujaku include doitsu kujaku tancho kujaku and maruten kujaku. Think of a scale like a flat clam.