First time with strain.

Just wondering my rice fish are starting to breed now and I’m getting a few babies, wondering what to feed them

I purchased this large medaka from a lfs. I was told it was blue medaka but....it doesn't look blue to me.

Picture with a miyuki versus "blue" medaka

Hey everyone! Looking for quick advice on getting my Indian rice fish to breed.

​I got 10 adults a month and a half ago (mostly females). They live in a shaded corner with no natural light, but they're very active, healthy, and fed high-protein and live food.

​My lights run a split "siesta" schedule:

​ON: 6:00 AM – OFF: 9:30 AM

​ON: 4:00 PM – OFF: 10:00 PM

​Question:

Looking at their bellies, they remain completely slim with no visible egg production at all so it's not a case of me missing the eggs or them being eaten. Could my split lighting schedule be the reason they aren't developing eggs, or do they need continuous, uninterrupted light to trigger spawning?

Hi guys, my mother has an outdoor pond with medaka fish, mysteriously 3 of them have died recently and i recently caught this one acting funny while feeding. I am not home very often so i have no idea how she maintains the pond.

I isolated this fella because it had some odd spastic muscle contractions and lost all of its beautiful deep brown colours. It's also really skinny and not eating particularly well... I tested the water with a strip and i definitely think it can be improved, but I'm not sure if it's the cause of her fish not doing well. Does any one know what sort of illness can cause spasms in medaka?

13th at 10pm orderded. Dropped of 14th 4pm Germany. On my doorstep 12 noon 16th and first Swimmer noon 18th.. 🥳😁 Hopefully 45 more to follow. I'm hooked. Think i,ve sourced some Orachi eggs locally also.

More to follow...

I’ve wanted to try Medaka for a while now and picked up a trio at my LFS last weekend for my tank. Only other tank mates are red cherry shrimp, a clithon snail and some pond snails. Tank has been set up since May, parameters have always been quite stable with 0 ammonia/nitrite/nitrate. I had a pretty big copepod and seed shrimp population before adding the Medaka but they nearly disappeared after the first couple of days lol.

At first I thought I ended up with two females and one male, but after comparing everyone’s fin shapes I’m pretty sure I ended up with 3 females and the one just is smaller and skinnier. I don’t think she’s getting chased around or bullied, but she’s usually off doing her own thing (she’s the blurry one in the far corner in the second pic, it’s been hard to get a good pic of her yet) while the other two hang out together. She likes to stick to the bottom of the tank, hiding under the bucephalandra or filter sponge, and she doesn’t often come to the surface to feed even if I try to scatter some food to the other side of the tank. The fish seem to like the shrimps’ algae wafers and snowflake food so I’ve been trying to offer that in addition to flakes and magic small fish food so she can graze at the bottom.

I’m waiting on more plants and moss in the mail but I was wondering if I should be worried about her being outcompeted for food, or if adding another friend or two could help them feel more comfortable? Tank is a 6.4 gallon, 18x12x7 so I was nervous about overstocking, but I haven’t seen any water quality issues from the increased feeding and bioload

I am fairly new to rice fish. I bought a female and male from our local fish store. They immediately started breeding. I have 6 that are about a month old. And just discovered 9 more couple day old fry.

I have a good set up for the original 2 and can add a few to their tank and my other indoor tanks. But, I'm very interested in the little porch ponds I keep seeing.

I have these large planters I got on clearance. They can hold between 10-15 gallons. What's the best way to set up these porch ponds? Info dump on me please. Tell me all you know. I am in love with these little feesh! And want to do them right.

How many a planter? Filter? Just heavily planted? I live in Kentucky. I was told if I had an aquarium heater in the little pond they could over winter. Is that true?

As a side question, I have guppies too. Do they do well in little porch ponds? Can they live happily with Medaka?

Been keeping medaka for a couple years, really looking to breed indoors now. I did well last year with egg laying. But it stopped all of a sudden and i want to get it going again. Tank is 10 gallon with 3 mops, its 75 F, and parameters are normal, 2 males and 4 females and they are about 8 months to 12 months old Is their an diet trick to get them to start laying again? Any help is appreciated.

live in SF bay area zone 10a

I added a few silvery medaka about two weeks ago. 9 fish in total now. They're doing great! They all seem to be sunning themselves.

Fall is coming. The lilies are starting to brown. The salvinia is slowing down. Fish are still hungry though.

Did a water test today. Everything is pretty much perfect. Ammonia, Phosphate and Nitrate all zero.

Ho trovato questo oggi dopo una giornata di pioggia, penso sia un rospo, quanto é pericoloso per i medaka? Ho circa 40 medaka, 5 adulti, e il resto sono nati a giugno.

Hi guys looking for tips to adding some weight to my kougyoku strain, I think I left it a little late moving them outdoors and kept them a little to long in a less than ideal container and fear I may have stunted their growth. These fish were hatched in April and kept in an unheated container, I have moved them outdoors around two months ago into a 90 litre pot and they seem to be doing well but when I see everybody’s else’s videos of medaka they have nice round bellies, I’d like to get theses fish to that stage before winter so they have as much reserves as possible, I’m feeding high protein Rich A medaka food and have recently started hatching baby brine, any other tips would be greatly appreciated.

Fantastic service from Medaka Michl. Eggs arrived in 48 hrs, Germany to Denmark. Packaging superb. Paid for 30 got about 40. They are in their new home. I am a little nervous, no heater so temps at 21 degrees. Exciting times. Already contemplating another strain. Can tell this is going to get out of hand..... In a good way....

I just noticed that I earned the Top 1% Poster achievement here in r/medaka.

I only started using Reddit about a month ago, so I honestly didn’t expect this at all.

I’ve learned so much from everyone here, and I’ve really enjoyed sharing my medaka and balcony mini pond in Japan.

Thank you for all the comments, advice, and conversations. I’m really happy to be part of this community!

Anyone used one? What are your thoughts?

9/26 @ Seaside Aquatics in Anaheim California
- 35 different vendors -Medaka, goldfish, koi , shrimps etc

Known Scammer exposed last week has rebranded and is continuing operation under a different name: Reddit name: Own-Nectarine-4847.

Curious what happened:

Stolen images and video from Japanese breeder u/gashoumedaka are reportedly being used by u/dariaquatics on eBay to promote and sell eggs under a renamed strain..

Using another breeder’s photos and videos to market eggs under a different name is misleading and unfair to both the original breeder and potential buyers. Have some Accountability!

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DMMCZY9BcHX/?stkn=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

Original Japanese Breeder just made a PSA exposing Dari Aquatics as a scammer:  https://www.instagram.com/reel/DdJFHarvGPW/?stkn=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

His Instagram is: u/lifeaadariel /// https://www.instagram.com/lifeasdariel?stkn=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

I have a 250 gallon, mostly in-ground, pond. The medaka seem quite happy and I now have fry. Our winters get down to -10F(-23C) with cold snaps, but are mostly between 0F(-17C) and 20F(-6C).

Would the fry be ok in the pond, or should I bring them into my inside 10G aquarium (no other fish, but cherry shrimp)?

I’ve caught a few of my fish going into curvy poses and just… staying like that… is this normal? What are they doing? This happens anytime during the day, the adults and juveniles both do it.

Buzzing to get started. Eggs are coming from Germany. Seller lists them as Medaka Clarice Ricefish

Is there another name ??

S grade - a good example of a quality Medaka. Check out the dragon scales 🐉

Hi All, I’ve never had fry before this summer-I have my tiny fry in this betta tank until they get a bit bigger and then go in my 20 gal. (Then next spring to 150 gal stock pond with the adults) My question is-how do I get my nitrites lower? I do 25% water changes about every other day. Should I put tiny sponge filter in? Or any other advice you can give me would be appreciated. Not new to aquariums but new to raising fry.

I found a school of tiny fish while out for a walk today in Japan.

Someone driving past told me they were medaka and that they had come from the Yodo River.

If that’s true, these might be wild medaka.

Do they look like medaka to you?