Breeding Medaka and sending them outside!

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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

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@janecarrel1111 4 месяца назад

This was such a lovely relaxing video to watch. Thank you for sharing your experience. :-) what a great pond!

@AguabonitaAquatics 4 месяца назад

Thanks, it was great to watch in the summer. Can't wait to set it up this year!

@vikkirountoit497 Год назад

What a nice pond you've created. Yep LRB rock pile looks like the perfect shrimp spot:) Hope your lotus blooms.

@AguabonitaAquatics Год назад

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.

@jaxxonfishroom Год назад

Great video

@AguabonitaAquatics Год назад

Thanks!

@jaxxonfishroom Год назад

@@AguabonitaAquatics anytime

@lmathews61 5 месяцев назад

❤️

@AguabonitaAquatics 5 месяцев назад

Thanks!

@berenicehickey9755 7 месяцев назад

Love this!

@AguabonitaAquatics 7 месяцев назад

Thanks, it turned out great. Enjoyed the little pond immensely last year!

@tsafa 2 месяца назад

I don't know why large chain stores don't sell them. They seem to breed fast enough. They should be 10 cents each.

@AguabonitaAquatics 2 месяца назад

Great indoor/outdoor fish. I suspect they will become more and more popular as they get more exposure.

@tsafa 2 месяца назад

@@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.

@AguabonitaAquatics 2 месяца назад

@@tsafa That's pretty overpriced. Down the road they will be a lot cheaper. So easy to breed!

@tsafa 2 месяца назад

@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.

@AguabonitaAquatics 2 месяца назад

@@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.

@TedH71 10 месяцев назад

They're not tropical. They can survive in the winter if the water isn't frozen all the way.

@AguabonitaAquatics 10 месяцев назад

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.

@darlenestanks9742 Год назад

Do you think I could put rice fish and white cloud minnows in the same pond?

@AguabonitaAquatics Год назад

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.

@darlenestanks9742 Год назад

@@AguabonitaAquatics I only have the regular ones. Did yours spawn for for you?

@AguabonitaAquatics Год назад

@@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.

@xKenn 9 месяцев назад

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😅

@AguabonitaAquatics 9 месяцев назад

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.

@xKenn 9 месяцев назад

@@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.

@AguabonitaAquatics 9 месяцев назад

@@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!!!

@gavinmillar 8 месяцев назад

@@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.

@AguabonitaAquatics 8 месяцев назад

@@gavinmillar Nice, need to try those!

@dfwlurking123 8 месяцев назад

what happens in the winter?

@AguabonitaAquatics 8 месяцев назад

They go inside and I take the pond down and store until next year.

@Aquafinity Год назад

Awesome looking fish, you're pond setup looks great! Also the plants seem super lush. Keep up the great work!

@AguabonitaAquatics Год назад

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.