Koi Fish meaning

What does it mean if the koi is facing up or down and black or orange?

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lol Man I've read this over and over and I should know it by now. It's all dependant on the person's beliefs. But I think traditionally the direction the koi faces is supposed to be relative to the direction in life it's going. The koi swims upstream , up the waterfall and turns into a dragon, golden one if I'm remembering any of this correctly. The leaves you have in the water around the koi (i.e. maple = autumn? cherry blossums = spring) determine which season of life the koi is going through. Crap that don't sound right but I think i'm close lol. Well it's either something like that , or something completely different from that lol.

Haha, I know this a common question, but maybe there's another meaning to it... Also, what about the color? Black vs. Orange?

In Japan, auspicious colors are red, white, black, blue, yellow, & brown. Here this link details the coloring of alot of different damn koi fish lol http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/331753/guide_to_recognized_koi_colors_and.html Only in the Niigata area of Japan were carp developed and refined successfully by selective breeding to eventually become what we know today as living jewels . There's a ton of info out there on the colors, and heritage of today's koi.