🐟 Kikokuryu Koi (Cyprinus rubrofuscus)
Gleaming Metallic White Skin With Bold Black Swirls • A Sleek, Dragon-Like Pattern • An Ever-Changing Pond Showpiece
 
📋 The Kikokuryu Koi, whose name means "sparkling black dragon", carries sleek, gleaming metallic white skin swirled with bold, inky black patterns, like a dragon moving through the water. It's the metallic form of the Kumonryu, with smooth, nearly scaleless Doitsu skin that gives it a polished, armour-like shine.
It's a captive-bred ornamental koi, developed in Japan from the Amur carp. Every Kikokuryu Koi we ship is feeding well.
This is a peaceful, sociable pond fish, and its black-and-white pattern can shift and change with the seasons and water temperature, so it's always fascinating to watch. It quickly learns to come to the surface to feed from your hand, and grows up to 90cm, so a pond of 4,000L or more suits it well.
 
💡 Highlights
🐉 Dragon-Like Pattern: Bold black swirls on gleaming white
✨ Metallic Shine: A polished, armour-like sheen
🔄 Ever-Changing: Its pattern shifts with the seasons
🪞 Sleek Doitsu Skin: Smooth and nearly scaleless
🤲 Hand-Feeding Friendly: Learns to feed from your hand
🌊 Pond Centrepiece: Grows into a true showpiece