Great video, MEDAKA RICE FISH OUTDOORS. Looking forward to your next upload! I smashed that thumbs up button on your content. Keep up the fantastic work. Your insights on the dragonfly lifecycle and its impact on your madaka population were incredibly thought-provoking. Have you considered any specific measures to prevent future dragonfly infestations, or do you think the netting is sufficient?
I haven't seen any more dragonflys under the pond netting so maybe there are no larvae still in the pond. However I now need to breed a lot more medaka before I think about re-stocking the pond. Temperatures should cool down in a few weeks and then hopefully my remaining medaka will start producing eggs again ..... and usually it stays warm enough until December to grow out the fry.
Thanks for sharing your experience. That's a tough loss. You're showing us the risks of fishkeeping outdoors, very challenging indeed. I had my first tub out on the porch this year, and I did not use any netting or cover. Luckily, I think all of the Medaka have survived. And they bred in the small 5-gallon tub. Not many fry were produced, but it was more than the indoor ones, which produced none. I wasn't trying to breed any of them. I did the breeding thing last year and got 150 to grow up. They are platinum medaka. I still like the medaka, but I'm ready to order a new strain, possibly Emekin (Emerald kissing wide fin).
Hi keeping medaka outdoors has its setbacks but it's nice to get successes such as your achievemnet in breeding 150 last year. If you're thinking of trying a long fin medaka strain I suggest you do a bit of research ..... it's my understanding that long fins are far less robust than, for example, platinums and generally may require.close to tropical fish conditions .... and I've read somewhere that it's recommended that emekins are raised in water temperatures of 30degC in order to grow the long fins properly
Sorry for your loss, a cautionary tale for all of us. Your theories seem entirely plausible so your solutions will definitely work, I’d say. I hope you can restock from your tubs. God bless your endeavours 🙏✝️. ✌️🇷🇺☮️🇺🇦✌️ 🙋♀️🤍🇮🇱✌️
Sorry for your Medaka population loss. I currently have Medaka in a tub but my long term plan is to place some Medaka in my pond which consists of Orce, juvenile Koi of 1 year and goldfish. I have two questions: 1. Will adult Medaka be OK alongside the abovementioned fish species? 2. Will the abovementioned fish species predate on Draganfly Eggs and Larvae? Thanks.
Thanks. If you have a look at my pond video about 7 months ago in February you can see adult medaka happily co-existing with what may be considered to be medium size goldfish. It appears the medaka didn't consider the goldfish to be predators and both medaka and goldfish would feed together. However I'm not sure about koi when they get large. Personally I very much doubt that goldfish, koi etc will go hunting for dragonfly larvae ..... they are omnivores and I think that they just eat whatever appears in front of them so I wouldn't really consider them to be predators. Dragonfly larvae can move very fast if they are threatened and it's unlikely goldfish would chase after them.
@@km-qh3rs thanks for the reply. I'll take a look at the video you posted 7 months ago. Keep the videos coming thanks. P s once the Medaka are filled back into the large pond would you be able to kindly do a video without the netting on? Would be good to just see it all. Looks great.
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Great video, MEDAKA RICE FISH OUTDOORS. Looking forward to your next upload! I smashed that thumbs up button on your content. Keep up the fantastic work. Your insights on the dragonfly lifecycle and its impact on your madaka population were incredibly thought-provoking. Have you considered any specific measures to prevent future dragonfly infestations, or do you think the netting is sufficient?
Let’s hope all the dragonfly lava have now left the pond so you can start to restock your Medaka.
I haven't seen any more dragonflys under the pond netting so maybe there are no larvae still in the pond. However I now need to breed a lot more medaka before I think about re-stocking the pond. Temperatures should cool down in a few weeks and then hopefully my remaining medaka will start producing eggs again ..... and usually it stays warm enough until December to grow out the fry.
Thanks for sharing your experience. That's a tough loss. You're showing us the risks of fishkeeping outdoors, very challenging indeed. I had my first tub out on the porch this year, and I did not use any netting or cover. Luckily, I think all of the Medaka have survived. And they bred in the small 5-gallon tub. Not many fry were produced, but it was more than the indoor ones, which produced none. I wasn't trying to breed any of them. I did the breeding thing last year and got 150 to grow up. They are platinum medaka. I still like the medaka, but I'm ready to order a new strain, possibly Emekin (Emerald kissing wide fin).
Hi keeping medaka outdoors has its setbacks but it's nice to get successes such as your achievemnet in breeding 150 last year. If you're thinking of trying a long fin medaka strain I suggest you do a bit of research ..... it's my understanding that long fins are far less robust than, for example, platinums and generally may require.close to tropical fish conditions .... and I've read somewhere that it's recommended that emekins are raised in water temperatures of 30degC in order to grow the long fins properly
Sorry for your loss, a cautionary tale for all of us. Your theories seem entirely plausible so your solutions will definitely work, I’d say. I hope you can restock from your tubs. God bless your endeavours 🙏✝️. ✌️🇷🇺☮️🇺🇦✌️ 🙋♀️🤍🇮🇱✌️
Thanks. I'm now thinking carefully about the lessons I've learned this summer so hopefully I can do better next summer.
Sorry for your Medaka population loss. I currently have Medaka in a tub but my long term plan is to place some Medaka in my pond which consists of Orce, juvenile Koi of 1 year and goldfish. I have two questions:
1. Will adult Medaka be OK alongside the abovementioned fish species?
2. Will the abovementioned fish species predate on Draganfly Eggs and Larvae?
Thanks.
Thanks. If you have a look at my pond video about 7 months ago in February you can see adult medaka happily co-existing with what may be considered to be medium size goldfish. It appears the medaka didn't consider the goldfish to be predators and both medaka and goldfish would feed together. However I'm not sure about koi when they get large.
Personally I very much doubt that goldfish, koi etc will go hunting for dragonfly larvae ..... they are omnivores and I think that they just eat whatever appears in front of them so I wouldn't really consider them to be predators. Dragonfly larvae can move very fast if they are threatened and it's unlikely goldfish would chase after them.
@@km-qh3rs thanks for the reply. I'll take a look at the video you posted 7 months ago. Keep the videos coming thanks.
P s once the Medaka are filled back into the large pond would you be able to kindly do a video without the netting on? Would be good to just see it all. Looks great.