My first purchase of Medaka Rice Fish from Japan
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- Опубліковано 17 сер 2023
- Medaka Rice fish were the first I had when I was a little kid, and I have never kept them as an adult, but I have been looking forward to getting them. I finally decided to purchase some eggs from Japan as I really like how they looked in the pictures, and I wanted to share my experience so far with them. Spoiler, I love these fish and I am looking forward to getting more and setting up a small pond outside!
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That's awesome! I had no clue just the eggs could be purchased like that. 😃
Yes. I found him on Instagram his handle is ricefish.japan referred by someone else that purchased before. He is on eBay under killfish.japan2. I will likely purchase more in the future.
This is very cool to watch 👍👍👍
Thank you! 😀
That was a superb video, and very cool to see the whole process. Thank you for sharing 😁👍
Thank you for checking it out!
What a cool video. Great job.
Thank you Darlene!
They are so cute! I am glad you had success 😊
Thank you!! 😊
Hello The Nano Aquarium Guy ... nice to meet you...thanks for sharing....My first purchase of Medaka Rice Fish from Japan
Thank you for watching Kris!
You have some beautiful nano tanks plus the Medaka’s are very lovely too! 🐟 Great video!
I have four outdoor ponds here in Australia and my fish are breeding and have bundles of eggs daily. I’ve read through the comments to realise only 11 made it but that’s still okay!😊.
In my personal experience, I’ve found that the less fuss, the better in terms of eggs hatching and raising fry from Medaka’s. All I do is put the spawning mops in jars with pond / green water, leave in the sun outside and have literally 100’s of fry swimming around within one week. I only learnt this by accident as I tried everything to hatch and raise the fry but nothing was working until I just left them alone. They are very hardy and will survive better outdoors but I guess everyone has different experiences. I have so many eggs from three different strains I may have to start selling them myself as I cannot keep up with so many fry!
Wishing you all the best! Sorry my post was so long!
Thank you very much for the comment! I have moved some of them to a larger tank and they are now breeding. I got some very tiny fry on a breeder box now. However I am not sure where they placed the eggs, I have a small I have a spawning mop there but no eggs. I think my Aquascaping is getting in the way of breeding these using mops. I have small ponds outside, I think I will be doing just that and putting eggs(when I find them) out and see how they do. I feel like I am just getting on the ricefish with the egg hunt and breeder boxes. I do want to order more in the future, or perhaps I will get some other killifish. Again, thanks for the comment and sorry for the super long reply 😁
@@TheNanoAquariumGuy yes I agree about the plants in the tanks, I removed a lot of the floating plants and once I did that they dropped their eggs on the mops (I make my own with the pool noodle and scouring pads) , not the yarn mops. If you remove floating plants with large roots they will most likely have eggs on them so you can just place those in a bowl or jar with pond water and they will hatch in them. I also don’t use methalyne blue as I want to leave them alone after they hatch and they feed off the green algae in the water. Good luck and btw your nano tanks are beautiful!
@@TheNanoAquariumGuy do you mind if I ask what kind of net is it that you use at the start of the video? The one where no water seeps through. Thank you 😊
@@exoticwater I got the net from Aquatic Arts, unfortunately I have not seen them listed on their website for a long while. I had 3 of them, but I broke one of them and was not able to get another. They had a round one and a square one.
Awesome video...great job and love the tanks
Glad you enjoyed the video!
@@TheNanoAquariumGuy it's always fun watching any fish grow up👍🧡
Very nice
Thanks Richard!
Jay i just wanted you to know that you are my Flo to my flowerhorn 😂. In all seriousness, great video man, another excellent video.
Thanks George! I do miss Flo the Flowerhorn's videos so I make my own. 😂 Thank you for checking it out!!
Another great video! I bought 12 medaka ricefish for a display tank from Aqua Huna about a year ago. They were all supposed to be "Pearl Galaxy, " but some turned out to be Red Cap/Koi (which go for about $12+ each online - when you can find them). After I noticed some were carrying eggs, I made a scrub pad-type spawning mop and started collecting eggs daily. I put them in a little plastic container with a drop of methylene blue, a shred of java moss, and an airstone just bairly bubbling. It took around two weeks from collecting to hatching, and I had about a 90 percent hatch rate. I finally stopped collecting the eggs because I had around 150 live fish spread across one 20-gallon and one 10-gallon tank. I've been selling the Red Caps to an LFS for $4 each in store credit, but they only want a dozen at a time. I'd really like to clear out my Red Caps so I can breed other fish. I'm going to put the Pearl Galaxy's in a future display tank. My actual point is, ricefish are super easy to breed, but you have to be intentional about it. Any fry that happen to hatch in an aquarium are usually going to get eaten. The fry are very hardy and easy to raise - in multitudes. And the fish are beautiful!
Nice! For some reason mine stopped laying eggs on the top and now they go to the bottom to lay eggs and make it very hard to pick eggs now. I gotta figure out how to collect eggs. I plan to move to a new home so I hope I can have some breeding tanks once I do.
I'm telling you, a scrub pad spawning mop is the way to go. You make one with a plain scotch brite scour pad and about an inch off a pool noodle. Cut the pad from one edge to about an inch from the opposite edge, making several cuts about a half inch wide. It should look kinda like fringe. Shake and rinse off any dust. Then roll it up and stuff the uncut edge into the pool noodle hole, trimming off what doesn't fit. Squirt some super glue or hot glue around the top and bottom of the pool noodle hole to hold in place. Trim the ends if it's too long. I would float it for two to three days, then pull it out, pick off the eggs, rinse, and return it to the tank. With maybe five females, I averaged about 20 eggs each time. You can float the spawning mop toward the back of the tank if you find it unsightly. Sorry if you already know about this, but maybe someone else will find it helpful.
@@sarahhaley8352 Yea I had one of those (when I got the eggs, the seller sent the green scrubbing pad and the piece of pool noodle and fry food) but I just didn't work for me. I will be trying again though!
If you’re still overrun with fish, could I buy some from you?
I was thinking of importing medaka as well! Did you have to declare or provide documents to customs?
@@Hoippu39 No, I didn't have to. I received the package by mail and thankfully it worked out. This is the link of the eBay vendor but I don't think he has anything for sale now (weather wise probably not the best time to ship eggs) www.ebay.com/usr/killfish.japan2
Nice tank. You’d better raise them in the black case, if you want to enjoy the real color of tri-colored rice fish.
Thanks for the tip! I am noticing the ones I have outside on the small black pond have more vibrant colors indeed.
Possible to share your source for purchasing the eggs from Japan? Thank you
Of course! Please see the link below for the eBay store I bought them from.
www.ebay.com/str/charmofjapanfulltana
Out of the 30 eggs, only 5 made it? Which of the smaller batches you split apart hatched have the highest success rate? I also have an external breeder box, which I think should work the best.
I'm also considering buying some eggs online but they're like $114USD, kind of expensive if only a few hatches....
Hi, actually I ended up with 11 of them, and for me at least the external breeder box one was the one with that did not worked well for me. That's the one that had the most eggs. Not sure why. I did have a sponge on the overfill but perhaps somehow fry may have gone through. I want to try again once I can get eggs from mine and see. I am thinking maybe try an internal fry container this time. Also maybe try an egg tumbler but perhaps it is too much for ricefish. Next time I will try to be more scientific about it and take notes. Regardless I will buy more eggs from Japan in the future as I just don't see those in the American market yet.
@@TheNanoAquariumGuy Oh, so it's not that they didn't hatch in the external breeder box, they just escaped and got eaten 🥲 I guess I'll have to hang it on my shrimp tank just to be safe.
Since, it comes with a breeding mop I wonder if you could just stuck the eggs onto it and let it float...maybe that could work? From what I've read, some people just put the eggs in tap water without dechlorinating it to keep the fungus away 🤔
Please make more videos of your process when you get more medaka eggs, I'll be sure to watch it lol
@@xKenn that is my best guess. Those fry like to stay on the top too so I am almost positive I lost some because of that.
10:46 please can you explain hiw did you use anubias and buce. Roots are in gravel ?
Thank you for sharing very nice video.
I used aquasoil (and thin layer of sand), similar to what one does to propagate. I attached the rhizome to a rock and let the roots grow into the aquasoil. It is on the link minute 12:30 ua-cam.com/video/X_UWE0nzJZQ/v-deo.htmlsi=qMELIl0cIKo2Zri2
Thanks for answer, got one new follower.
@@emrekanburoglu thank you!!
I took over a tank from a sick friend..
It is ten gallon only and contains
1 White Molly, 3 Endlers and shrimp 🦐.... Tank is heavily planted with good filtration
Do i have room to add 6 pygmy cories...?
*Crap Game*
If you have a good filtration and it is heavily planted, it should be okay to add the pygmy corydoras.
Out of 30 only 2 made it ?
I got 11 total.
@TheNanoAquariumGuy That's not so bad,I have fish from the same person, are your fry starting to resemble the parents in coloration
@@DetectiveLopez. yes, and I think I would had better success if it wasn't because I think some of my fry made it out of an external breeder box... and yes they are coloring up but it is not as deep yet. It maybe one of those where I need to have them outside so the colors really pop but I plan to keep them indoors until I get some breeding.
@TheNanoAquariumGuy I put all 50 eggs in a tupperware container with a little methalane blue and tap water which I did not dechlorinate and floated it in my aquarium which was at 23 degrees and almost all hatched in less than a week , I just changed some water each day and made sure the eggs where not touching each other.
Will be interesting to see another video in a few months see how your fry develops 👍
@@DetectiveLopez. Yea I had a few eggs like that that, the a few in a shrimp only tank, and the majority on a hang on breeder box, and the breeder box was the one that didn't really worked for these. Once they breed and get eggs I want to try again in a more scientific way (have accurate egg counts on different containers) to see which works best. I have been a bit sick so I haven't recorded anything, but yea I do have to move them soon so I will record an update then.
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