Thanks for sharing 🙏 I wonder if you let the parent in the same tank, with the mesh on both side of the box, you don't loose to many egg when getting the box out of the tank with the flow of water leaving the box? Thanks 👍
I have golden wonder killies, and they are beautiful fish. Though, they beat the tar out of each other if given the chance and yes, jump out of the tank. They are super easy to spawn, mine are now 4th generation. I just transfer floating plants between tanks and their eggs hatch, it’s always by accident
I got a dozen rosy reds and quarantined them and used the aquarium co op quarantine trio and they all survived and are still doing well without a loss 2 years later
Sounds like your tank is too sterile. Those fish need all the wild bacteria, micro fauna and funk that is found in nature. They had nothing to forage on in your tanks. Commercial fish food is junk.
These guys eat cyanobacteria! What other fish, shrimp, or snail that you know of that eats cyanobacteria?? I had a huge cyanobacteria problem and these guys worked relentlessly to keep it under control. Constantly picking on it throughout the day on driftwood and large rocks.
I'm new to keeping wcm, just subscribed, impressive video, what really made me stop to subscribe though was when you suggested I check out WC Dynasty, I thought that was really really cool of you and as I was about to look them up I thought, "oh, wait, I should subscribe, this guy's really in it for the community." Thank you!
also this collection of information on this fish could save it in the future do to climate loss and people like you so i hope you make an update on these guys
In my experience with skinny disease I've found the following to be dramatically helpful. I don't know what part of this adopted procedure does the trick but.. Identify illness (nearly always present what appears to be collapsed or sunk in throat. Immediately isolate to prevent spread but to also stop any competition for food. Increase oxygenation. Feed seed shrimp without restriction for about 2 days, this is high protein and acts as a dieretic helping cleanse the bowel. Then change to high fat high protein flake and feed it to its fill about 5 times a day till it's back to healthy weight. I've never had it reoccur after this. I usually do this for 2 to 3 weeks before putting it back with others, then I watch closely to make sure it isn't underfeeding. It seems they get too weak to compete, isolate themselves and starve out while picking what is essentially dust off the floor of your tank. Hope this helps someone as it has saved my ptsmrt fish numerous times.
I agree, these are great fish. I keep them outside year round, they live about three years, and get pretty chunky. Fun fish to watch from above, too bad they are so badly treated in the hobby. I think those who use them would rather pay a bit more, so that they may offer healthy food to their pets. Nice video, thanks!
I live in Vermont and bought 5 rosey minnows 5 years ago for 10 cents each. I bought them as feeder fish for my 500 gal outdoor goldfish pond. I now have about 30 of them and they are about 2 inches long and happy AF.
I want to add Rosy Red Minnows to my outdoor pond in Northern Virginia, but am afraid of introducing disease. Is there a good source for healthy Rosy Red Minnows?
Since it looks like theres a picture of an Medaka Yo-kihi? on this video I thought I'd ask a question. Some pictures for sale online are brilliantly orange while others are washed out, have very little color, & are more transparent. Is this due to good strain vs bad strains, male vs female, and/or can these brilliantly colored fish wash out and loose there color when they're stressed or not doing well? Thanks Again for The Video & if You or any other viewers can answer this for me.
Hi Sony, just stumbled into your video & really enjoyed your information. Had the wild type years ago. I've been researching small coldwater fish & decided I'm going to try Gold WC's. My goal is to start small & see if I can improve the gold coloration.
I don’t keep angels, so I don’t know. I just reported on the study. My guess is that they feel threatened by the new fish. Maybe move the old fish to a different tank and let the new one get established for a week or so? Then move an old fish back into the tank every couple of days or so?
I've found medicated fish food really helps for rasing minnows and wild caught bluegill. Also reccomend a mix of Para salt mixed with prazipro. Seems to hold up well. Fishbendazol works great as well had great success with it.
Some pointers: salt is a great way to treat parasites. The adults can get a salt bath when they get home from the store and you can add a few teaspoons to the tank. As for fry rearing... your green water setup was not nearly green enough. The fish will not eat the algae cells, only filter feeders can. So you need little plankton to eat the algae and the fry will hunt that... which means you can't even filter a green water tank at all. They had too much empty space to roam with not enough food. They need to be completely surrounded by food to get enough. An infusoria culture (paramecium) is just the ticket. Then you can progress to vinegar eels and baby brine shrimp or daphnia. Egg is a no-go since it will foul the water without filtration. Hope that helps, good luck
Nice video but I just want to say hardiness of rice fish varies a lot based on different factors. Longfin types always need heaters. Many new fancy varieties coming out of Japan need heaters. In most ways they are very like goldfish or guppies, the simplest varieties that have been around a while and the species are obviously very hardy just like comet goldfish, mosquito fish, etc, but super-fancy goldfish and guppies are sometimes a huge pain to keep alive even in ideal aquarium conditions.
Last year I added around 5 dozen from the local persmart to my pond. Only about 9 survived and made it through winter. Right now I have several dozen babies growing and living well in my pond, with koi, goldfish and a frog who made my pond home. I don't know how more haven't gotten eaten but they are so fun to watch and doing well so far!
I really like them. A few years back I had an aquarium with just a few Rosy Red minnows in it and they were so lively and I really enjoyed keeping them.
Great video, I bought 25 from a koi pond company for a new pond I put in my garden in new Mexico. I put them in about 6 months before I added goldfish just to be sure my water quality was good. I must of got lucky because I only lost 5. After a year the only problem I’m having is that they seem to over be over populating my pond. Not sure what to do about that? I agree with you that these little guys are amazing fish. They seem to handle a wide range of water temperatures. They also keep the pond free of mosquitoes. Do you know if they will slow down on their breeding since they have established a good colony?
