Great encouragement on breeding Medaka. i acquired my first two this July, the last two in this county, (in England) and have had a delightful time watching them. I learned a lot by watching Ryo Watanabe's videos in Japan and how the Japanese have enjoyed them in their mini ponds for hundreds of years. Now my female started spawning after a couple of days and I managed to harvest a few batches of her eggs. The male seemed to dance about her once in awhile as I thought he was fertilizing the eggs still stuck to her. I am now just at two weeks since the first spawn. I hope what I see are little eyes inside the eggs. I had one shocking experience when one later batch that I put in a separate 4 litre jar disappeared the next morning. I had left them hanging on some Elodea plant. Completely gone!! I searched with light, no sign of eggs and then discovered a young blood worm, not totally red yet, that must have snuck in when I added some water from my rain barrel outside. It was quite small itself but I am sure it ate the eggs!! I fed him to one of the parents as he was still small enough for their small mouths. Blood worms are a larvae of some flying insect. Beware of them around eggs. The last unfortunate thing that happened two days ago was I came down and my male was dead! Why? I can only surmise. So sad, now I must find another mate and may have to pay a lot to have one shipped from some other place in England as I see there are some. Two aquarium shops said with the pandemic it is hard to get their shipments by air from the countries they buy them and to keep them at a reasonable price. Just to say I have found these little fish have given me some other interest during this strange time in our world. Who would have thought a little fish could do this for an elderly widow! I don't feel elderly, though!!
If you go on eBay and search “medaka_uk” or “medaka eggs” you’ll be able to buy batches of fertilised eggs like I just have, cheers from England too :)
Great video!! I also keep Medaka as I live in Japan!! There are readily available and fairly cheap for most variety!! Really excited more people in the states are keeping these great little fish!
Thank you so much. I have two baby Medaka and now I’m setting up a breeding tank for their parents. Too hot outdoors in FL so moved them indoors where it’s about 80 deg F. Wish me. luck. Love my Medaka.
I used this method with my summer tubs. I pulled moss 3 times during the first 6 weeks or so. When I broke down the tub a couple of weeks ago, I ended up with 150 fry. I had higher fry survival rates once the water went green. I plan to do some selective breeding over the winter and early spring. The fish all look good, but they're not breeding true. My hope is to improve that over the winter and spring, to get a jump on next year's outdoor season.
I’m hoping to get a breeding group of 6-12, I’ll keep and breed them outside all year round. Winter will do the culling for me, all I have to do is add some new genes every so often and I’ll have very hardy medaka. They are hardy because there is a high cull rate if you allow them to overwinter. If people start inbreeding them in warmer water, they will become noticeably weaker.
Gotta ❤ medakas 😁 Super hardy and low maintenance. I enjoyed this video. Thank you. Hornwort is a great alternative for outdoor mini tubs or ponds to lay eggs on. 👍
I do just got em working on getting more wi have better prices and deals Cause it’s bullshit these are so expensive and I believe everyone should have em available
@@WorldAquariumSingapore I’m in America bro paid about 100 for 20 taxes and all and to add on something I forgot I’m probably gonna drop another 100 because I want strong genetics fish are to weak these days
Great info on breeding these guys! I just bought a group of orange from you on EBay (under my hub Scott's account). Couldn't find any locally--they're really popular now! Btw, I've known Cory for years through the local fish club, and Aquarium Co Op is just a few miles away from me. It's been fun to watch his store and channel take off!
Thank you! I also enjoyed watching Cory's channel evolve, I was a sub from the beginning with the daily doses. I wish I was close to the Co Op, they have so many fish I want, especially those guppies from Vienna!
I just started breeding these guys and got my first hatch, I moved the eggs to a big glass vase with plants and a air stone on low with some methlyane blue, I was having a lot of fungus on the eggs before. Did you have issues with fungus?
Do you notice if the shrimp will prey on the rice fish eggs??? I have a group of 5 younger orange medaka rice fish in a 5 gallon growing out but I notice one of the females has been having like 2-3 eggs (nothing big) hanging from the under fin so I just threw a small breeder mop in the tank just to see if I can get a few eggs. I checked today got 4 eggs total out of the mop but I’m wondering if the cherries I have in there will eat them cuz I’ve noticed them in the mop a few different times...?!?!
Do the snails eat healthy eggs? Just wondering how important it is to remove snails, cause I’m not sure if that’s possible in my tanks 😂 I just have ramshorns and bladder snails.
Thank you! Here's the link for the racks I use, I just put some wood stained with waterproof stain to evenly distribute the weight. www.walmart.com/ip/Edsal-77-W-x-24-D-x-72-H-Steel-Welded-Storage-Rack-Black/21685759?wmlspartner=wlpa&selectedSellerId=0&adid=22222222228016992894&wl0=&wl1=g&wl2=m&wl3=40873631552&wl4=aud-430887228898:pla-78766299272&wl5=9003674&wl6=&wl7=&wl8=&wl9=pla&wl10=8175035&wl11=online&wl12=21685759&veh=sem&gclid=Cj0KCQjwiYL3BRDVARIsAF9E4GfSNWA1PnU9NVawSV0iOFZ64rsYOk18PpIv0Zt2xHwNgafc8LsumtUaAjYHEALw_wcB
Awesome fish room! I'm very interested in getting some medaka rice fish, may I ask what's the best way to acclimate them when I got them from mail? (never ordered fish online) and how often you do water change for them? Will 50% water change every few days be good for them? thank you very much.
@@Tristan2681 im late, but i started my youkihi group in a summer tub a few months back with a ratio of 2:3 males to females. I now have hundreds and i have to keep on giving them away to my lfs.
@@Daleshobbies612 here's the racks I use, video of the whole water change system coming in the future. www.walmart.com/ip/Edsal-77-W-x-24-D-x-72-H-Steel-Welded-Storage-Rack-Black/21685759?wmlspartner=wlpa&selectedSellerId=0&adid=22222222228016992894&wl0=&wl1=g&wl2=m&wl3=40873631552&wl4=aud-430887228898:pla-78766299272&wl5=9003674&wl6=&wl7=&wl8=&wl9=pla&wl10=8175035&wl11=online&wl12=21685759&veh=sem&gclid=Cj0KCQjwiYL3BRDVARIsAF9E4GfSNWA1PnU9NVawSV0iOFZ64rsYOk18PpIv0Zt2xHwNgafc8LsumtUaAjYHEALw_wcB
@@fishboy1415 I wanna get some orange rice fish to breed in a nano scape but I dont wanna put moss because it grows so wildly. How many do you think fit in a 8-10gal? Also are the female orange rice fish whitish and the males a deep orange?
Fish Boy I don’t have any moss in the tank but if I add something like guppy grass or floating plants would they choose plants near the surface or the plants in the bottom of the tank?
Great encouragement on breeding Medaka. i acquired my first two this July, the last two in this county, (in England) and have had a delightful time watching them. I learned a lot by watching Ryo Watanabe's videos in Japan and how the Japanese have enjoyed them in their mini ponds for hundreds of years. Now my female started spawning after a couple of days and I managed to harvest a few batches of her eggs. The male seemed to dance about her once in awhile as I thought he was fertilizing the eggs still stuck to her. I am now just at two weeks since the first spawn. I hope what I see are little eyes inside the eggs. I had one shocking experience when one later batch that I put in a separate 4 litre jar disappeared the next morning. I had left them hanging on some Elodea plant. Completely gone!! I searched with light, no sign of eggs and then discovered a young blood worm, not totally red yet, that must have snuck in when I added some water from my rain barrel outside. It was quite small itself but I am sure it ate the eggs!! I fed him to one of the parents as he was still small enough for their small mouths. Blood worms are a larvae of some flying insect. Beware of them around eggs. The last unfortunate thing that happened two days ago was I came down and my male was dead! Why? I can only surmise. So sad, now I must find another mate and may have to pay a lot to have one shipped from some other place in England as I see there are some. Two aquarium shops said with the pandemic it is hard to get their shipments by air from the countries they buy them and to keep them at a reasonable price. Just to say I have found these little fish have given me some other interest during this strange time in our world. Who would have thought a little fish could do this for an elderly widow! I don't feel elderly, though!!
If you go on eBay and search “medaka_uk” or “medaka eggs” you’ll be able to buy batches of fertilised eggs like I just have, cheers from England too :)
Whenever you get plants put them in a pea puffer tank and they'll hunt all the snails its like a quarantine tank
I thought I was the only one that did that 😂😂😂 it always works with my pea-puffer
i would do this but pea puffers are a couple hundred each where i live and also very very rare
Great video!! I also keep Medaka as I live in Japan!! There are readily available and fairly cheap for most variety!! Really excited more people in the states are keeping these great little fish!
They would be right up my ally if I can
find some local I can put in a planted
75 gal aquarium & let them breed.
Thanks for this. I subbed..I breed rice fish on my balcony here in Singapore.I hope to continue when I return to London in a couple of years....
Nice set up. Wish we had some of the color varieties they have in Europe and Japan.
You and me both!
Thank you so much. I have two baby Medaka and now I’m setting up a breeding tank for their parents. Too hot outdoors in FL so moved them indoors where it’s about 80 deg F. Wish me. luck. Love my Medaka.
I used this method with my summer tubs. I pulled moss 3 times during the first 6 weeks or so. When I broke down the tub a couple of weeks ago, I ended up with 150 fry. I had higher fry survival rates once the water went green.
I plan to do some selective breeding over the winter and early spring. The fish all look good, but they're not breeding true. My hope is to improve that over the winter and spring, to get a jump on next year's outdoor season.
I’m hoping to get a breeding group of 6-12, I’ll keep and breed them outside all year round. Winter will do the culling for me, all I have to do is add some new genes every so often and I’ll have very hardy medaka.
They are hardy because there is a high cull rate if you allow them to overwinter. If people start inbreeding them in warmer water, they will become noticeably weaker.
Gotta ❤ medakas 😁
Super hardy and low maintenance.
I enjoyed this video. Thank you.
Hornwort is a great alternative for outdoor mini tubs or ponds to lay eggs on. 👍
Thank you!
I don't like duck weed, but my Medaka fry love it.
Woo I just became number 1k, congratulations, love the setup, and great tips
Thank you! Never thought I would hit 1k subs!
your fish room looks good mate
Thank you!
Hopefully picking up some of these medaka tomorrow, cheers for the info vid mate.
Great video! Love the in depth information. I'm excited to try and breed some Medaka! Thank you!
Youkihi has 2 colors....I believe some white and some oranges. I have the same thing. Great video...thx
I'm in Australia and I'm going to do this, i really enjoy watching your videos and i hope your store goes well
So cool these fishes :D "D who else have ricefishes at home?:D
I do just got em working on getting more wi have better prices and deals
Cause it’s bullshit these are so expensive and I believe everyone should have em available
@@iliaperez7290 rice fishes are no quite cheap in Singapore, hows the price in your country so far?
@@WorldAquariumSingapore I’m in America bro paid about 100 for 20 taxes and all and to add on something I forgot I’m probably gonna drop another 100 because I want strong genetics fish are to weak these days
@@iliaperez7290 Woww thats expensive
I do and I notice one of my young females started having a small batch of eggs show up today!!!
Great info on breeding these guys! I just bought a group of orange from you on EBay (under my hub Scott's account). Couldn't find any locally--they're really popular now! Btw, I've known Cory for years through the local fish club, and Aquarium Co Op is just a few miles away from me. It's been fun to watch his store and channel take off!
Thank you! I also enjoyed watching Cory's channel evolve, I was a sub from the beginning with the daily doses. I wish I was close to the Co Op, they have so many fish I want, especially those guppies from Vienna!
I love these neat little fish!
Thank you
Great info. Thank you for sharing! - Little Bobby
Great video! What type of substrate are you using in the shrimp tank? small black rocks.
Thanks s o much for this great vid. Just got some platinum whites and would love to breed them!
Very nice
Super helpful video, thank you!
So very helpful. Just subscribed! Thanks!
Excellent info! Thank you so much 👍
Thank you for the great video
6:20 is that a worm in the tank on the right?
Excellent Video!
Thanks for this. Do you plan on listing any rice fish for sale soon?
Thanks for watching! I have them listed right now on Ebay and Aquabid
Very nice and well produced video. Will the fry also eat frozen daphnia?
I just started breeding these guys and got my first hatch, I moved the eggs to a big glass vase with plants and a air stone on low with some methlyane blue, I was having a lot of fungus on the eggs before. Did you have issues with fungus?
We’re they more expensive 2 years ago?! Or are they cheaper now cause they seem expensive even now
Hi, love the videos. I was wondering how you sex the platinum rice fish. Thanks.
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How do I get some? I've been wanting to keep them and looking for local people, but haven't had luck yet. They look like such lovely little fish!
it Sara fry food? I can't seem to find it online
?Can you tell me why you switched to sara fry food?
Do you notice if the shrimp will prey on the rice fish eggs??? I have a group of 5 younger orange medaka rice fish in a 5 gallon growing out but I notice one of the females has been having like 2-3 eggs (nothing big) hanging from the under fin so I just threw a small breeder mop in the tank just to see if I can get a few eggs. I checked today got 4 eggs total out of the mop but I’m wondering if the cherries I have in there will eat them cuz I’ve noticed them in the mop a few different times...?!?!
Do the snails eat healthy eggs? Just wondering how important it is to remove snails, cause I’m not sure if that’s possible in my tanks 😂 I just have ramshorns and bladder snails.
great video! where did u get your racks and what do you use for the base?
Thank you! Here's the link for the racks I use, I just put some wood stained with waterproof stain to evenly distribute the weight. www.walmart.com/ip/Edsal-77-W-x-24-D-x-72-H-Steel-Welded-Storage-Rack-Black/21685759?wmlspartner=wlpa&selectedSellerId=0&adid=22222222228016992894&wl0=&wl1=g&wl2=m&wl3=40873631552&wl4=aud-430887228898:pla-78766299272&wl5=9003674&wl6=&wl7=&wl8=&wl9=pla&wl10=8175035&wl11=online&wl12=21685759&veh=sem&gclid=Cj0KCQjwiYL3BRDVARIsAF9E4GfSNWA1PnU9NVawSV0iOFZ64rsYOk18PpIv0Zt2xHwNgafc8LsumtUaAjYHEALw_wcB
ty so much.best of luck to ur fish room and channel i will fed be watching
Mine seems to be prone to fungus, do you do anything special with your eggs?
From 0:45 on: what kind of Java moos is this... never seen before
Do we need to seperate the parents from the eggs?
Well you never have to worry about the store bought fish getting dumped into a lake, because you are going to the lake to get your fish.
Awesome fish room! I'm very interested in getting some medaka rice fish, may I ask what's the best way to acclimate them when I got them from mail? (never ordered fish online) and how often you do water change for them? Will 50% water change every few days be good for them? thank you very much.
They are a very hardy fish and don't require many water changes as long as water quality is decent
@@fishboy1415 thanks for the reponse :)
Do the eggs fungus at all? Do you use mrthalane blue?
How many medaka rice fish would you recommend to start breeding
More than 6
@@fishboy1415 What about the male to female ratio
@@Tristan2681 im late, but i started my youkihi group in a summer tub a few months back with a ratio of 2:3 males to females. I now have hundreds and i have to keep on giving them away to my lfs.
What temperature do u keep the tanks for breeding?
When do u think more will be available on aquabid? Been looking to get them for a while
They are on Aquabid now
Try finding breeders on Instagram/other socials
What are your water parameters?
Well I know now what to do with my spare tanks.
Hi! Are you aware if Daisy's Rice Fish can interbreed with regular Medakas?
Haven't tried it so I'm not sure, that would be cool if they could!
What kind of substrate do you like to use the black substrate your currently using
Eco complete
Love the fish. How do I find your store?
Thank you! I sell on Aquabid as fishboy17 and eBay as fish-boy
What type of rack do you use and how do you set them up? Could you go into more detail about your water change system?
@@Daleshobbies612 here's the racks I use, video of the whole water change system coming in the future. www.walmart.com/ip/Edsal-77-W-x-24-D-x-72-H-Steel-Welded-Storage-Rack-Black/21685759?wmlspartner=wlpa&selectedSellerId=0&adid=22222222228016992894&wl0=&wl1=g&wl2=m&wl3=40873631552&wl4=aud-430887228898:pla-78766299272&wl5=9003674&wl6=&wl7=&wl8=&wl9=pla&wl10=8175035&wl11=online&wl12=21685759&veh=sem&gclid=Cj0KCQjwiYL3BRDVARIsAF9E4GfSNWA1PnU9NVawSV0iOFZ64rsYOk18PpIv0Zt2xHwNgafc8LsumtUaAjYHEALw_wcB
very good 😊 rice fish 👍 🔔
Would they breed in trident Java fern?
I haven't tried. Maybe a in a thick amount of it
@@fishboy1415 I wanna get some orange rice fish to breed in a nano scape but I dont wanna put moss because it grows so wildly. How many do you think fit in a 8-10gal? Also are the female orange rice fish whitish and the males a deep orange?
I usually breed 10 in a 10 gallon, depends on the strain, sometimes females have better color
@@fishboy1415 I just realized you're the one selling them at the post i was looking it lmao
Are they particularly hardy fish or are they quite hard to keep
They can overwinter with inches of ice over them, very hardy fish
For the Orange Rice fish, are the males orange and the females white / silver?
Not always, I have had some nice orange females and paler looking males
How many generations does it take to get them to breed "true"?
What type or substrate would you recommend for plants and Medaka?
I have eco complete in almost every tank
Do you sale them?
How much?
how do you tell male from female?
I believe you can tell by the bottom fin shape, I just wait and see which fish are carrying eggs in the morning
What are the mesh breeder boxes you use
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Fish Boy thank you so much I just ordered one
What are the water prametrs?
My tap water comes out 7.2-7.4 pH, low to medium harness. Temperate ranges from 70-76 usually
can they breed in normal aquaria cos i dont have the luxury to have a second tank?
You might get 1 or 2 fry in a heavily planted tank
I don’t mind getting a breeding box that can be added externally right next to the tank and is it possible to get the eggs off the plants or decor?
That could work, maybe take the spawning mop or moss and put it all in the breeder box
Fish Boy I don’t have any moss in the tank but if I add something like guppy grass or floating plants would they choose plants near the surface or the plants in the bottom of the tank?
Not sure this is the only way I breed them
What kinda moss was that?
java moss
Do you sell the orange medakas?
Yes, on Aquabid and Ebay
Which city are you living?
So you don’t actually do anything? The fish do it all
Still have fry to sell?!?
Yes on the website
Can you please send me a couple of those to me,, to Germany?
There are many Medaka breeders in Germany.
@@Populiervogel Yeah? where? are you a breeder too?
@@P.wwrta.... No I'm from the Netherlands, in my country these fish are not popular and hard to find, Google: Medaka Züchter Deutschland.