Koi fish widely known as beautiful and expensive Japanese fish has become one of the most popular tattoo symbols. It is being admired for its beauty and bravery. According to a legend, a koi fish, which climbed waterfalls has transformed into a dragon. From that, it became an inspiration for positive qualities like courage, capacity to fulfill high goals and surpass life’s challenges.

Koi fish are a very popular tattoo design; it can be made as tribal tattoos or Celtic tattoos. To make the design more beautiful it can be combined with other designs like flowers, hearts, crosses, fairies, sun, moons and stars. Colors that are commonly used in koi fish tattoo design are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, violet and also the classic back and white or black and gray.

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