🐟 Showa Koi (Cyprinus rubrofuscus)
Bold Black Wrapping Around Red and White • A Powerful, Dramatic Tri-Colour Pattern • One of the Legendary Big Three Koi
 
📋 The Showa Koi, also known as Showa Sanshoku, carries a powerful tri-colour pattern of bold black that wraps around the body, set with vivid red and crisp white. Its strong, dramatic look makes it one of the "Gosanke", the big three classic koi varieties, alongside the Kohaku and Taisho Sanke.
It's a captive-bred ornamental koi, developed in Japan from the Amur carp. Every Showa Koi we ship is feeding well.
This is a peaceful, sociable pond fish that glides gracefully through the water, its black pattern growing bolder and more striking as it matures, and it quickly learns to come to the surface to feed from your hand. It's long-lived, hardy and grows into a true pond centrepiece, reaching up to 90cm, so a pond of 4,000L or more suits it well.
 
💡 Highlights
🖤❤️🤍 Powerful Tri-Colour: Bold black wrapping around red and white
🏯 Gosanke Classic: One of the big three koi varieties
🔥 Dramatic Look: Its black grows bolder as it matures
🤲 Hand-Feeding Friendly: Learns to feed from your hand
⏳ Long-Lived: A lifelong pond companion
🌊 Pond Centrepiece: Grows into a true showpiece