Metallic Koi

Comprised of varieties from the hikarimono and hikarimoyo families you will find nothing but bright and shimmering colors in this item. A true ogon should appear metallic and shiny regardless of whether this is a result of hikari shiny skin in the absence of scales or kin gin rin scales. Our live hikari mix koi can add a metallic shine to any pond.

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Ogon meaning golden koi are metallic solid single colored koi fish in the hikarimuji class hikari shiny.

Metallic koi. The koi most commonly associated with this group are ogon formerly spelled ohgon but the classification also takes in metallic matsuba. In 1921 a magoi with a gold striped back was caught from a river in takezawa yamakoshi prefecture by sawata aoki. Metallic refers to skin color and pec fins having a lustrous sheen to them.

There are many different types of metallic koi and each year the koi breeders in japan seem to invent a new one to add to the list the. The koi or fancy goldfish in this picture are different lengths for display purposes. High quality metallic mix.

Varieties include platinum ogon yamabuki ogon kujaku hariwake matsuba and more. This is just a sample photo from the batch of fish we have not the actual fish you will receive. Metallic koi browse by all doitsu ginrin japanese koi kikokuryu koi kujaku kumonryu metallic ogon tancho yamato nishiki sort by featured best selling alphabetically a z alphabetically z a price low to high price high to low date new to old date old to new.

The reflective scalation however dilutes the depth of their base coloration so that red areas tend to appear more orange and black coloration appears grayish. Please note this is a true representative of the quality of koi you will receive. Koi with metallic lustre are often some of the first fish bought by newcomers to the koi keeping hobby and it is the lustre and the brightness of these types of koi that when first viewed have great appeal.

The metallic appearance of these attractive koi which first came to prominence in the 1960s means they are highly visible in the water. Ogon has become synonymous with a collective name for metallic solid colored koi. High quality hand selected metallic koi mix 5 6 item description.

Metallic regular fin aa and a grade mixed colors koi. A typical order has a wide variety of colors and patterns as shown below. This is not to be confused with gin rin which refers only to a sparkle in the scales of scaled varieties.

A kikokuryu pronounced key ko koo roo is always a metallic and always a doitsu scaless or partially scaled variety of koi or butterfly koi. Ogon koi can either be doitsu lacking scales or kin gin rin metallic scales. Hikari mix koi are available in bulk wholesale quantities 4 5.

Having them in your pond is a good way to encourage shier koi to hand feed.