medaka outdoors - fry management - basic setup

A setup for raising medaka fry from hatching until reaching a size suitable for transferring to grow-out tubs. This is the basic setup and further videos will follow covering fry food, water changes etc.

[@lukehartley7759]

Great video

[@andreagalda28]

Oh wow... those cut down tubs are a brilliant idea. It has been so time consuming moving the eggs every time a fry hatches. Letting them swim out on their own would save me so much time. I have been feeding them some green water and powdered fry food. My set up is indoors, so I don't have the benefit of food landing in the bins naturally.

[@km-qh3rs]

Even indoors, personally I don't think that green water is worth the hassle. Sometime, if you have enough eggs, you might try just having clean water and powdered fry food.

[@StuartChignell]

Why does the uk medaka group require you to keep them inside?

[@StuartChignell]

Sub tropical climate? So you're not in the UK then.

[@km-qh3rs]

@@StuartChignell Hi. No, not the UK .....I'm in Asia. But a friend sent me this link about UK retailers only selling medaka for indoor aquariums and to ensure customers understand they cannot be kept in outdoor ponds or barrels ornamentalfish.org/industry-warned-to-ensure-oryzias-species-must-only-be-sold-for-indoor-aquariums/ . Presumably it's not illegal to keep medaka outdoors in the UK ... it appears to be just an advisory warning that government may in future ban the import of live medaka if they become an invasive risk due to being kept outdoors.

[@jonisolis9645]

Why no plants?

[@km-qh3rs]

Because plants are not necessary and placing them in fry hatching containers increases the risk of introducing mold, disease, etc into the containers. For the first 2 weeks, fry are very fragile .... raising them solely in clean water without plants and other stuff increases the survival rate of the fry.