The Kohaku is the most popular variety of Nishikigoi. So much so that there
is an expression,
"Koi avocation begins and ends with Kohaku." There
are
various
tones of "red" color - red with thick crimson,
light red, highly homogeneous
red, blurred red, and so on.
There are all sorts of
"Kiwa (the edge
of the pattern)"
-scale-wide Kiwa,
razor-sharp Kiwa, and Kiwa resembling the edge of a torn blanket, etc.
Shades of white
ground (skin) are quite
diversified too --
skin with soft
shade of fresh-unshelled, hardboiled egg, skin with hard shade of porcelain,
yellowish skin, and
so forth.
Remember to stop feeding your fish when the water temperature in the pond drops below 50 degrees Fahrenheit. The metabolism of the fish slows drastically at this point and the fish cannot properly digest food.
