Nano Koi Fish?! - The Medaka Ricefish Pond & Tub Breeding Care Guide. Best Pet Fish for Any Climate
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- Medaka Japanese ricefish summer pond or tub care and breeding guide for beginners and skilled, long term fishkeepers alike. Nano koi!
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2 years later and I just knew you'd hv the vid I needed somewhere in your archives!! Just picked up 20+/- platinum Medaka eggs at the last San Diego tropical fish club meet. They'll hatch prob next week, can already see their little eyes! Too flipping awesome!! So I need a quick "how to" so I can set up an outdoor pot/ pond for my guys to live their best life. I knew you'd have what I needed!! Thanks Alex!!🙏💙✌️
Awesome! Have a blast!
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Keep it up bro, and thanks for being one of my main *go-to* research sources
Well thank you kindly. Also. I have seen the work on mater "memory "...very interesting stuff
This is so informative! Great job, fantastic reporting!🌻🌼🐝 Keep it up 🙌
Gracias Amigo.
Potter for 25 years - dove into keeping fish a little better than a year a go.
Bringing it full circle and making BIG terra cotta Bowls intended for Medaka.
Following months of research and planning I’ve just took the plunge and ordered a small group of Galaxy Medaka from Dan’s. ( thanks for the discount ).
They’ll start in a ten gallon Coleman that i feel good about. looks suspiciously like your water - not quite so rich with Live Foods. None too pretty water lettuces and hornworts and duckweeds, some Mopani, some brick, some fat Mulm, some stem cuttings… Lots of snails. Going to add some spare wild type Neocaridina.
It’s been seasoning for most of a year with no direct light - on standby for quarantine - but repurposing for Ricefish 🤙🏽.
Added a cheap Hygger LED and turned the sponge filter down to a dribble.
Figure I’ll let them be for a while without pushing breeding - moving any found fry or found eggs into the bowls I’m making for them.
? About the snails ? Should i relocate ? ( Ramshorns and bladders )
How hungry for Medaka eggs have you found common snails to be 😋 ?
Really BIG thanks whether you answer or not.
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Hey thanks! Um snails... usually they wont eat the eggs as a problem...like they prefer algae and food scraps/fish poo. But they certainly can eat them if you have a ton. So if you notice its impacting...then perhaps start removing some, but otherwise it should be okay.
As for fry... the adults usually dont eat a bunch...theyll eat a slow or unhealthy fry, but i still notice fry grow way way faster if you have 2 or 3 other dishes or bowls to put fry in so you can have groups of several sizes but none that are big enough to eat fry. for the first 2 or 3 months i like raising them with lots of live baby brine shrimp or daphnia/ Micro pellets/flakes to speed up their growth...then you can plop em back into the main community again.
Would love to see a video about the different varieties of ricefish. Enjoy your plant spotlight videos too. Recently got some Potomageton Gayi and hopeful it does well.
Oh right on! It'll grow for sure... it's just one of those plants that can grow in a wide range of morphs
They look pretty cool, especially from that top view. I think I’ll give them a nice planted pond project this coming tubbing season...
Got 11 platnum blue medaka yesterday. Just love them. Such beautiful fish. I wouldn't tub them at all because they are so pretty to watch. Mine like the mild flow I have for them across the tank from a spray bar.
Awesome! I totally understand
Where abouts are you Martha! I’m in Australia & trying to find some blues here. It’s like trying to find a pot of gold….. australia is so far behind when it comes to medaka. I’m hoping your an Aussie 😀🇦🇺❤️
Super helpful video! I just recieved some gold and platinum rice fish a few days ago. Hpefully I'll be able to tub them this summer.
Right on! Glad to share what i know. Feel free to ask any questions, if i can help at all. Where did you source your golds? (USA? )
@@Fishtory got them from aquabid!
Love rice fish!!
Meeee too
Hi im from UK and have been keeping these since July
Cheaper to buy eggs here
I have about 20 in outside tub
Indoors I keep them in large goldfish bowls planted with no filters
Very cool
Whoa, love those rice fish, where you get them? How’s the breeding going? Would love to see a follow up video. I have been seeing videos on these rice fish, would love to get a small tank started with them. :)
We commonly find them in our back yard
I feed them to my turtle
Nice! Gretting from Medaka Manufaktur Germany
Awesome! Hello
Wow those tanks near the end need a sort out...
Just got midnight medaka rice fish off Aqua Huna! So beautiful and $5 a fish! If u guys want cheap amazing rice fish they have quite a few choices and cheap! $12 shipping too!
Thanks for the tip!
I was wondering if you could do a history of snow white anubias and other variants
Sure
for better red coloration in the fish use betacaratiens from krill and boiled mashed carrot and sweet potato or orange squashes..
I have a 45 gallon tank with silver hatchets, glass catfish, peppered corydoras and soon to have emporer tetras. The rice fish at my LFS in Nashvillle, TN had these guys and they immediately caught my eye but I had no idea what they were all about. Now I'm obsessed... would a school of 8 make good tankmates with my current set up?
They'd go well with everyone other than the emperor tetras. They *may get along just fine with the tetras, but those tetras tend to stay in the mid and top water, as do rice fish, and the tetras tend to bit slightly nippy. Perhaps consider rummynose tetras, cardinals, neon black, glow lights or tucano tetras instead?
I can literally find these guys (wild type) in the really harsh pond in my complex. Every winter they seem to die down but they come back in spring. Do the eggs survive the winter? Or are they just hardy as hecc,
Whoa! Like the red headed and platinum bodied variety? What city do you live in?
The Secret History Living in Your Aquarium no, just the plain gray ones, but occasionally I see some cool strains for sale.
Thank you for this great video on my favourite fish! I have 10 rice fish (5 platinum and 5 orange (Youkihi) both colours are separated, 5 in each outdoor pond. I’m very new to outdoor fish keeping and am a little worried about a few things. It’s winter here in Melbourne Australia, and it will be their first winter outside.
I used to run an air stone but stopped after reading it stresses them out!
My apologies, I am so attached to my rice fish, and don’t want them to perish! May I ask, do you do water changes or just top up the water when low? Thank you so much!
I just do water top offs, the water is very soft, so the tds doesn't climb up luckily...or i would.
@@Fishtory Thank you!
19:14 EPIC!!! :)))
Hahahah you know.....
any updated videos on these rice fish? still have them? breeding?
I lost them all when we had a 113 degree day last summer sadly :(
so sorry to hear that. I hope you get more to try @@Fishtory
Blood worms are the larva of a fly or some such insect. I found a small one in my egg tank where I had put one cluster of harvested eggs and the next morning all that cluster was gone. I only assume the blood worm ate them. I only found the worm when I went humting for the eggs which had been hanging nicely from Elodea plant. With nothing to disturb them in the night I figure it had to be that blood worm. Also if those worms get too large the rice fish can't swallow them. Get them out of the tank with any eggs you want to keep. I only started keeping Medaka (Rice Fish) this month as an interest due to pandemic restrictions. Here in ENgland I managed to find the last two locally. They were doing brilliantly, until this morning when I found the male dead!!! Can't understand what happeded because the female is doing well. A week ago I noticed that he had a tiny pimple on either side of his abdomen, only visibel from top view and gave him a 5 minute salt dip with unadulterated sea salt in case it was something like Ich. Maybe it wasn't. I also read that Medaka have been found in brackish water so I figured he should tolerate the dip. I gradually made it the concentration called for. After that he seemed fine even a little perkier as before he showed some signs of not being so. Next time I would go for the dip with less concentration of salt for 20 to 30 min. Losing him has made me feel quite melancholy as I was getting so attached to the couple watching them daily in my kitchen. Must find her a new partner soon. I used to keep tropical fish as a teenager so had good experience there. These I like because they didn't need a filter , just some water changes regularly, nor a heater , nor a bubbler. I use only clean rain water. Any suggestions about losing my fish??
Would love an updated video on how your breeding is going with medaka 😀 pretty please 😀❤️🇦🇺
It's going haha... I had 50 or 60 but one day of 107 degree heat and now I'm down to about 15 medaka sadly
Oh no…..
Ohh, if you have a video about tubbin for daphnia I'd live to see it! Is it like the rest of how tubbing appears; lob in eggs and forget?
Yes, actually easier...leave a tub outside for a year.. and it'll have like 50 species of little odds and ends. There are dozens of daphnia species, but "Daphnia Moina" is the common fish food and hobby standard if you want to order eggs on eBay or whatnot.
@@Fishtory awesome! Begun, the Racoon Wars have...
For the algorithm!
Do you have a link to the ricefish info written in Japanese? I'd like to see other strains not available in the US
I cant share active links on youtube comments, but i think theyll be able to be copy and pasted. Let me look through my notes and i can send you what i found... id love some help figuring out if there's a way to import any of them.
My friend Dean Tweeddale (hes in aquarium coop channel frequently as "Master Breeder Dean", he and I have been scheming ways go get some new genetics over to Seattle from Japan... and he has his import and wholesales licenses if i can find a source.
Do the daisy blue have as much temp range as medaka? Makes sense that medaka being from japan can get so cold ( and hot) but daisy’s being from a more sub tropical place, I wonder? The temp is more steady there and warmer in general. I’m in the sf Bay Area ( Oakland) and want to try both outside this summer ( with white clouds too)
So the Daisy's definitely do better with water above 60 degrees, where as ricefish can survive winter outside in Seattle, as long as they gradually cool down. They both tolerate the 68-78 range and spawn the most at that 'sweet spot", but even if the Daisy's can survive lower temps, they have never thrived for me, other than summers here jn Seattle...and the Daisys are prone to infections if they get too cold
spurs Leena: me too. I live in Ohio. I raise Comets. However I have other goldfish. I really want Red Caps, the Daisy Blues, and White Clouds.
Roland Rees I have all those and love them!
My daisy’s sadly all bar one passed away in the outside pond it was April went down just below 60 degrees. So he is indoors now but the Golden Medaka all are well.
What I do to protect my outdoor tubs is put window screen lifted off the rim by milk carton lids so mosquitoes etc can get in but dragonfly larvae can't. For bigger animals, I put rabbit cages on top so they cant get their paws or beaks within reach of the water. I also put cages over my outdoor plants to protect from rabbits. A friend of mine puts a car battery hooked up to metal grates he surrounds his garbage cans with to prevent raccoons from getting in. I really like your ricefish and I wish you great success raising them.
Thanks!, yeah we shall see...im in the heart of the city and many of my species are fast enough to dodge raccoons , but you can bet that i wont let more than these fish die (even if 1 or 2 die and i notice, then ill make changes for sure. I have actually had raccoons bust 20 gallon tanks simply by sitting in them or wrestling with their siblings and bashing into the side...they get up go 20lbs easily out here...and can lift double that off of a tank (when ive used plywood and a few rocks or bricks, they figured it out in a week or less
@@Fishtory raccoons are very smart animals. They're also pretty dexterous with their front paws. Raccoons can even figure out simple door latches!
I just had a raccoon destroy both my nano ponds, including eating most of the ricefish in them:( luckily I’ve already bread them and have hundreds of babies. And now I have screens that are bunjied down on top!
So, a few years on what strains do best outdoors here in the Seattle area?
Sadly.... the dark ones that birds and raccoons can't see lol... but moreover, short fin/wild body types do better in the cold and heat. Possibly due to inbreeding...or perhaps just due to larger exposed surface area of fins and body to damage or infection.
I'd say yohiki ( peace or orange) , and miyuki(blue) and midnight medaka have done the best for me year round.
@@Fishtory Good to hear. I need a colony of small fish that can reproduce annually to feed pumpkinseed (and ultimately the bass) in a small man made lake with no access to other water ways. Minnows as you know are illegal as are gambusia (even though the city of Kent has them stocked in a pond at the transit center;) ) I have been working the proper channels to try and be able to get native minnows, but it's been two years of WDFW and the city in talks. I have been moving tadpoles from a local vernal pond that dries up before they transform into frogs and salamanders over to a protected area of the lake and nature park I steward.
Known I need to guerilla this project the entire time, but I think this year I start my own colony and start stocking next year.
Unless you know a source for native minnows. That was my plan until I learned the bass and pumpkinseed are invasive too. I just want to improve the fishing for the kids and the nesting osprey and herons that live there.
My goldfish spawned again this year. There was a brief "Hmmmmm" followed by no, just no lol Too destructive to the ecosystem I'm restoring/ creating.
You should get some of Cory's orange ricefish
If he sells em i definitely would
I thought he sells to people he knows in the Seattle area
Maybe you can trade him some of yours!!
Can I mix it with my altum angel fish
Yes, but definitely match the angelfish water parameters not the ricefish. They adapt easily. Angels won't do well in high tds/high ph
@@Fishtory hi bro thank for the information and really appreciate, I will subscribe to your channel.
Hello... can we put Medaka fish together with cherry shrimps? Can Medaka fish breed when they are together with cherry shrimps?
Yes and yes! (Some baby shrimp may get eaten, but if you have enough plants and or stones/hiding spots for baby shrimp, then most will survive usually)
@@Fishtory how about the baby fish and fish eggs??? Will they get eaten? Can medaka laid egg and hatch the egg while living together with the cherry shrimps? Thank you
@@marvinnathanaeltedjo2010 amano shrimp eat eggs... caridina and neocaridina rarely if ever eat the eggs as long as they have another protein source of food ...rather they clean them
Do you think you think you would ever get around to selling them online?
Possibly the eggs, but I don't really like dealing with shipping fish and the deaths that occur , too often.
do they jump ?
Sometimes, but not often
Will daisys blue rice fish be okay in the outdoors too? I have some outside and they seem to be doing okay
Most ricefish, or Medakas in particular, are not recommended to keep inside due to several reasons, but the main one being they will starve. Medaka fish behave in the way which they are eating and consuming something constantly and continuously in the wild and the tanks. In outside environments, there will be microorganisms and little daphnias as well as mosquito larvaes 24/7 while inside tanks will eliminate those and will not breed them with no direct sunlight. If you have at least little knowledge about the language Japanese, you could watch medaka youtube videos that are very helpful and interesting. Best of luck.
Riki thanks for info I will do my research on them!
Yes but they are from Malaysia and thailsnd/indonesia / PNG. but they can withstand 55 or 60 degrees Fahrenheit still. Whereas the japanese ones can withstand a huge range
What is the recycle number of your tubs?
I'm not sure ...the info is unfortunately on the bottom of the tubs. Sorry to say
Why not put some kind of lid on, to stop raccoons?
I may...but i like bugs at least being able to get in there and lay eggs
@@Fishtory Maybe some kind of chicken wire type contraption
@Lucius Fawkes super great idea! Thanks
I've heard they are called rice fish because their swim bladder s look like a grain of white rice.
I thought it was because they can often be found in rice fields.
I wanted to order some of the eggs from Japan they got cooler colors over there than we have available have you done that do you know if they will survive that trip
If you flew them overnight then they should... but multidays may expose them to pressure changes in air freight.... im sure someone knows how to pack them properly though... it would all depend on that i guess. Ive never ordered them personally, but know a few people out of sanfran that have