Breeding Medaka and sending them outside!
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- If livebearers are the easiest fish to breed, Medaka rice fish are a very close second. I acquired a nice strain of Youkihi Medaka from April's Aquarium and wanted to make sure I had some fry before I sent them out to the deck pond. Everything went according to plan. I have Medaka fry growing in the house to preserve the strain and adults showing off and breeding in the deck pond. I also added Rhadnocentrus ornatus (Teewah Creek) and Honey Blue Eyes (Pseudomugil mellis) to the deck pond. Hoping for some eggs from these guys too!
I fill the little egg hatching containers (5"x3"x3") 3/4 full of tank water and add 1/2 drop of methylene blue. The eggs hatch within a couple weeks. The fry are very easy to raise and accept dry foods immediately, live is preferred, but they aren't fussy.
Water temperature 70-74 F. PH = 7.8 Total Hardness (mg CaCO3/L) = 250 mg/L
What a nice pond you've created. Yep LRB rock pile looks like the perfect shrimp spot:) Hope your lotus blooms.
Thanks, there's a bunch of shrimplets kicking around already. I really hope the lotus blooms too; it would be so cool. I talked to friends from India, they laughed and said, lotus bloom everywhere in the ditches, no big deal. In the Great White North it's a big deal. They were still unimpressed, no big deal, lol.
This was such a lovely relaxing video to watch. Thank you for sharing your experience. :-) what a great pond!
Thanks, it was great to watch in the summer. Can't wait to set it up this year!
Awesome looking fish, you're pond setup looks great! Also the plants seem super lush. Keep up the great work!
Thanks. Plants are doing well. Hopefully, I can round up some honey blue eye eggs soon. Had to stop collecting Medaka eggs... they are serious breeders, lol.
Great video
Thanks!
@@AguabonitaAquatics anytime
Love this!
Thanks, it turned out great. Enjoyed the little pond immensely last year!
I don't know why large chain stores don't sell them. They seem to breed fast enough. They should be 10 cents each.
Great indoor/outdoor fish. I suspect they will become more and more popular as they get more exposure.
@@AguabonitaAquatics I would love to get some for my outdoor pond, but I'm not paying the $50 for six fish that a lot of the sellers are asking for.
@@tsafa That's pretty overpriced. Down the road they will be a lot cheaper. So easy to breed!
@AguabonitaAquatics I'm hoping to find somebody locally here in northeast Pennsylvania that will sell me some at reasonable price to get them breeding in my pond.
@@tsafa If there is an aquarium club close by I expect someone has more than they need... I picked up awesome looking platinums for about $4-5 each last weekend at our club auction.
Do you think I could put rice fish and white cloud minnows in the same pond?
For sure, they are both good community fish. I've kept regular coloured white clouds in my big pond before. Their natural colours provided incredibly good camouflage. I basically never seen them, at all. If you do put white clouds into a pond go with the gold variant, they are much easier to see.
@@AguabonitaAquatics I only have the regular ones. Did yours spawn for for you?
@@darlenestanks9742 No, I thought they might, but generally speaking they need softer water than what we have here. I've had them breed in hard water with just a few hatching; softened the water to about 100 - 150 ppm CaC02 and the hatch rate increased a lot. If you've never bred them before, do it. Fry totally look like little neon tetras when small, really cool.
You should try using spawning mops made out of scouring pads and pool noodle, I heard it works much better than a traditional yarn spawning mop. No need to manually pull them from the fish.
Also, are you sure those are Youkihi medakas? They look more like pink medakas😅
I will likely try the pool noodle mop next year... I stripped the eggs this year because I just had a few and wanted to get them outside quickly. I also wanted to try the method, very simple. They were sold as Youkihi, mostly look like it, but having raised the fry I wouldn't say it is a very straight line. Overall, it's been really tough to acquire Medaka here outside of platinums.
@@AguabonitaAquatics I see, makes sense. Maybe they just look pink-ish on camera. Yeah, it's also hard to find anything that isn't one solid color over here in BC. It's always platinum/pink/indian/black/diasy's, even youkihi is somewhat hard to find. I've never seen April's Aquarium sell Youkihi, maybe I just don't visit enough lol The only other option we have is to import it from Japan but that could easily cost $150+ just for some eggs...and if they grow up not looking like the listing photos, it's already too late to ask for a refund.
@@xKenn My youngest daughter is fascinated with Japanese culture, so it is an excuse to go search for awesome strains. Could take a few years of vacation saving. That being said, from what I've heard the really high end strains are tightly guarded, could be some serious $$$ spent just to get lucky. The perfect combination for an adventure!!!
@@AguabonitaAquatics I made a couple of the pool noodle mops and put them in my tank and they had deposited eggs on them within a matter of hours.
@@gavinmillar Nice, need to try those!
They're not tropical. They can survive in the winter if the water isn't frozen all the way.
Indeed, where I live, it freezes all the way! Two feet of ice in the winter is fairly standard here. They look nice inside too.
what happens in the winter?
They go inside and I take the pond down and store until next year.
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Thanks!