Red White Ryukin GoldFish

Description

The Ryukin goldfish is a very beautiful fancy goldfish variety with a characteristic hump in the shoulder region. It is actually Chinese in origin.

But is named Ryukin, because it was said to have arrived in Japan through the Ryukyu islands which lies between Taiwan and Japan.

There were historical references that the existence of the Ryukin goldfish dates back in 1833. But the variety is said to have arrived in Japan in the 1770s.

Early Japanese literature refers to these fish as the Onga or the Nagasaki goldfish. In English, they are also sometimes called as the Veiltail, Fantail, Fringetail or the Japanese Ribbontail.