Hope this was helpful and interesting! I’ll be trying to get more rice fish videos out :) Be sure to follow me on Instagram for more pictures and updates @ryowatanabee
Good stuff, Ryo! I think Japanese Rice Fish is a market that people are very interested in but there's not a lot of information about outside of Japan. Educate us more on medaka!
Hello, wishing you well. I’m in USA and have been looking at rice fish for awhile. They are so cute 🥰 I’m so in love. I’m having a hard time finding breeders out here. Do you sell them ?… or even better ship to USA? I’m remodeling my home and think they would be an awesome addition. Please let me know 🙏🏽
@@elizabethgrant5194 there are sellers online that sell medaka and will ship it to you. I found mine a fish store near me that sold medaka by calling around. Good luck hope you find some.
I found some sparkly silver-blue medaka near me in the US and I was pumped! They were outrageously expensive and hard to find online. I have them in a cystal vase with loads of plants. When I can I stick it in an open window for direct sun, they start breeding so I think they like it. Thanks again for your videos, never would've known these guys existed without them!
Excellent care guide! Thank you so much! Ricefish are pretty cheap in Korea too but I recently travelled to America where they're so expensive! Idk why but they like to keep them in tanks there. I agree they do better outside. Plus, they look better from above anyway.
@@heres_the_sauce Yeah, thanks, but I'm pretty sure they only carry expensive morphs(or at least, 15$ is cheap for 3 individuals in the western market) Again, thank you.
Also a good idea but the fish might be able to get out of the hole is too big. You can use a string or something and drip water out via capillary phenomenon
G’day Ryo, thanks to your ricefish vids I got inspired & setup my own bowl pond. The planted setup is going super and I love it. I want to setup more. Cheers mate. 🌱
Your rice fish bowls are so nice! I live in Athens, GA, (US). Been trying to find rice fish at my local stores and even Atlanta. No one carries them! I've found them online, but they are expensive - $8 -20 each! Yes, would like to see a tour of the rice fish breeding area.
I found your channel recently in the last couple months. Thanks for the great content Ryo. I live in Missouri USA and we do not have anything near as amazing as the aquariums and fish you have shown us on this channel. Thank you and keep her going strong Ryo!!!
Your ponds look amazing, I wish my lfs sold Medaka, Ive been waiting for at least one of my lfs to stock up on them since my trip to japan almost 6 years ago but still no luck finding them 🤧
@@RyoWatanabee I’ll be sure to update! Getting cold over here (we don’t freeze over) so I’m hoping to just keep feeding and boost their weight I’m anticipation of winter. Hopefully they’ll be ready for breeding in the spring!
Yay! A Medaka video! Here in the states we call them container ponds😀 We have some crazy prices for medaka here but I got my Blue Miyuki Medaka for free from a friend. I like those really red ones as well. Great video Ryo! Please do one on the Medaka farm. Some day I would like to see a Medaka farm for my self. My family and I were talking about where we are going to go first once we are vaccinated. Japan, Singapore, and Hawaii were high on the list. Cheers, Chris
Awesome to hear that they can survive in cold conditions. What about the fry, though? I have 20+ medaka fry under 3/4 inch in length living outdoors. Winter is quickly depending where I live, and though I have a heater on my small pond, would the youngest fish be in danger from the cold?
Hey, Ryo! Thank you from Seattle, WA. My wife and I just scored five platinum(?) Medaka for cheap ($5 ea vs. $65+ on ebay) for our paludarium and we're in love. Your video is so helpful-- now we're off to make a porch bowl pond!
Love your vids man! Just got some miyuki medakas here in the US (Colorado) and had to pay $10 per fish + shipping.... I've got lots of fry hatched out already and I'm going to bring some to the local fish store to try and make them a little more available here! I have yet to set up a little pond for them so theyve just been in my aquariums but that's the next step. How big of a bowl do you think you need minimum?
Awesome new Medaka content from Sensei Ryo!🙏🙏🙌🙌 thanks for keeping so many of us around the world educated and engaged with keeping Medaka! I have finally two groups here in Barcelona: mixed “normal” strain, quite pretty to be honest, and Miyuki platinum, which are gorgeous. I’m dying to get some tricolors someday. Thanks, Ryo! Fantastic video!👌👍
You mentioned prices for the rice fish. I just bought 6 Medaka (golden rice fish) and it cost me £5.99 each total of £35.94 or ¥5924.40 a tad more expensive in the UK. I noticed bizarrely the blue daisy was cheaper and the store was a lot cheaper than online stores offer and this is a shame, I was actually at my mothers home when we saw them as I was setting up and remodelling her ponds and patio. Issue is mum lives 140 miles away from where I live in South West London.
I kinda gave up breeding my orange medaka in a tub so I moved to a tank so I can observe them better. After a few days I noticed fry in the tub! I have 7 or 8 fry that made it, they are getting pretty big now. I still have 7 of the adults so I hope to get more fry from them.
@@emiliaroman8631 I'm in North Texas and two fish stores near me have started getting platinum medaka in sometimes. So, maybe they are going to be easier to find in the US soon.
Hi: You can use the 2-3 day method to dechlorinate if your water has only chlorine in it. However it’s common now for many municipalities to use chloramine which does not dissipate like chlorine and you need a chemical dechlorinator to get rid of it.
Hey, I know its a kinda old video but wanted to ask, at 12:00, what is the name of this plant on this mini pond? is it hydrocotyle Verticillata or some kind of a peperomia? it looks amazing. btw I love your videos and they are really inspiring/helpful on keeping medakas, I recently ordered some eggs and I will finally keep some myself.
Hello from Scotland, i have just found your video, im going to be setting up a patio pond tommorrow and i was looking for ideas, these little rice fish are fantastic , i keep white cloud mountain minnows & goldfish, im going to see if i can get rice fish for my wee mini pond now after watching your video if their available in my country cheers, yeti 🏴
So glad to hear that :) They'll definitely lay their egg in the roots of the hyacinth and you should be able to get more fish if you separate the hyacinth from the adults
I love your little ponds they are so nice ! What are the plants you have used in them ? and also what kind of soil and rocks have you used to keep the water so clear and prevent alagal bloom ?
I may have a stupid question, but do you have to take measurements against inbreeding in a minipond full.of ricefish? Or will it sort out for itself? I once had a group of guppies that grew fry with bend tails I think.due to inbreeding??
I was so interested by what you said about keeping them inside vs outside and the reason possibly being the sun - have you kept them indoors under a UVB light? Or know of anyone who has? And if that made a difference? I want to do an experiment now! Thank you for showing us these lovely fish and the patio ponds, I'm very jealous and inspired!
I just started keeping medaka for the first time this year. The climate is more extreme where I live. Winters are cold enough that ponds will freeze solid. So I have to bring my ricefish indoors. In regards to higher temperatures - during the summer, my ricefish tolerated the higher temperatures, but if the water temperature was above 78F/25C, the eggs would fungus before the fry could hatch. Next summer, I plan to set up the outdoor ricefish pond in a more shaded area.
We have loads of cats, so when I get an outdoor pond set up I will have to put a mesh or something over it or the fish will get eaten. 2 streets away lives a lady with 12 cats, and she's not the only cat owner near us
Love your videos! I really wish I could find rice fish locally to me. I set up a mini pond late in the summer this year. I used gold white cloud minnows. But I want to do madaka.
@@RyoWatanabee I have regular white clouds with neon tetras in a 29 gallon. My wife was worried about the gold white clouds being outside over the winter, so I moved them in to the 29 as well. I’ll move them back outside in the spring and see if they’ll breed for me.
I love the rice fish videos Ryo! I want to visit Japan when travel gets back to normal again. I want to see some of the fancy goldfish they have for sale there
Yes the fish farm tour is a must these are fascinating fish which we don't really see in the UK but there are now a few breedes offering eggs ...ever thought of mailing eggs to your fans ? I am sure they would sell well they sell here 10 eggs for £15 on Ebay but eggs from good Japanese stock would sell for more.
Ryo i think u should see if u could get a bigger tub to put the water hyisin. It would help the hyisin spread out more and grow more to. Love your videos keep up the amazing work.
I keep them with guppies without any problems. They are not aggressive. I have not kept them with long tailed guppies though. I still would not expect them to be fin nippers. Cheers, Chris
Question: What´s with this cricket sound in your videos every now and then? Makes me crazy, it´s the ringtones of my cell...I´m always looking thinking I get a call :)
@@Zari_ifa Just a variety of fish foods. Flakes, Nano Xtreme, Bug Bites, maybe some Xtreme green flakes. They're in a community tank so I rotate the food daily.
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Hope this was helpful and interesting! I’ll be trying to get more rice fish videos out :)
Be sure to follow me on Instagram for more pictures and updates @ryowatanabee
Hi bro can the rice fish be kept in a tank without air pump and filter and plants.
Watching from Tottori City, where I got my first Medaka yesterday! Thanks for the video - it's a very useful resource! Cheers! :-)
I love this video. I’ve watched multiple times! These fish are not very common in the states, hopefully I will find some soon.
Put them with misqitofish
Put them with misqitofish
Good stuff, Ryo! I think Japanese Rice Fish is a market that people are very interested in but there's not a lot of information about outside of Japan. Educate us more on medaka!
Hello, wishing you well. I’m in USA and have been looking at rice fish for awhile. They are so cute 🥰 I’m so in love. I’m having a hard time finding breeders out here. Do you sell them ?… or even better ship to USA? I’m remodeling my home and think they would be an awesome addition. Please let me know 🙏🏽
@@elizabethgrant5194 there are sellers online that sell medaka and will ship it to you. I found mine a fish store near me that sold medaka by calling around. Good luck hope you find some.
Can’t find them in Sweden 🫣
I found some sparkly silver-blue medaka near me in the US and I was pumped! They were outrageously expensive and hard to find online. I have them in a cystal vase with loads of plants. When I can I stick it in an open window for direct sun, they start breeding so I think they like it. Thanks again for your videos, never would've known these guys existed without them!
How are your rice fish doing now?
Excellent care guide! Thank you so much! Ricefish are pretty cheap in Korea too but I recently travelled to America where they're so expensive! Idk why but they like to keep them in tanks there. I agree they do better outside. Plus, they look better from above anyway.
Yes please, I would love see rice fish farm. I would love try this at state. Thank you for video.
I'd also love to try this in the states, but I can never find these fish in any aquarium shop I go to.(closest I can get are mosquito fish.)
@@jayav2877 check online. Aquatic arts often has multiple kinds of rice fish for sale.
@@heres_the_sauce
Yeah, thanks, but I'm pretty sure they only carry expensive morphs(or at least, 15$ is cheap for 3 individuals in the western market)
Again, thank you.
If it rains a lot dont the bowls overflow allowing the fish to swim out?
It happens but most of the time medaka don't hang out on the surface when it's raining.
That’s correct, the rice fish are very smart. They stay towards the bottom of the pond when it rains or when it’s really cold
I just drill some holes near the top... Just in case.
Also a good idea but the fish might be able to get out of the hole is too big. You can use a string or something and drip water out via capillary phenomenon
Farm tour!👍
G’day Ryo, thanks to your ricefish vids I got inspired & setup my own bowl pond. The planted setup is going super and I love it. I want to setup more. Cheers mate. 🌱
Thank you so much 😊
Your rice fish bowls are so nice! I live in Athens, GA, (US). Been trying to find rice fish at my local stores and even Atlanta. No one carries them! I've found them online, but they are expensive - $8 -20 each! Yes, would like to see a tour of the rice fish breeding area.
Thank you 😊
I found your channel recently in the last couple months. Thanks for the great content Ryo. I live in Missouri USA and we do not have anything near as amazing as the aquariums and fish you have shown us on this channel. Thank you and keep her going strong Ryo!!!
Yes, please do a tour of the rice fish farm. I love your setup etc. The jet black Rice fish sound like they are magical.
They are epic. Wish I had footage of them but unfortunately I don’t
Your ponds look amazing, I wish my lfs sold Medaka, Ive been waiting for at least one of my lfs to stock up on them since my trip to japan almost 6 years ago but still no luck finding them 🤧
Sorry to hear that! I hope they become available to you soon
I've actually just set up a ricefish tub! Been documenting the process and it's been a blast!
Awesome!! Hope you get some breeding action :)
@@RyoWatanabee I’ll be sure to update! Getting cold over here (we don’t freeze over) so I’m hoping to just keep feeding and boost their weight I’m anticipation of winter. Hopefully they’ll be ready for breeding in the spring!
Yay! A Medaka video!
Here in the states we call them container ponds😀 We have some crazy prices for medaka here but I got my Blue Miyuki Medaka for free from a friend. I like those really red ones as well.
Great video Ryo! Please do one on the Medaka farm. Some day I would like to see a Medaka farm for my self. My family and I were talking about where we are going to go first once we are vaccinated. Japan, Singapore, and Hawaii were high on the list.
Cheers,
Chris
Awesome!! Yeah, really hope this pandemic gets settled with soon so we can travel more.
Greetings from New Jersey. You realize you have to do the tour of the breeder now..... 😂
Awesome to hear that they can survive in cold conditions. What about the fry, though? I have 20+ medaka fry under 3/4 inch in length living outdoors. Winter is quickly depending where I live, and though I have a heater on my small pond, would the youngest fish be in danger from the cold?
Perhaps wrap the container with double of gardener's fleece.
hey Ryo in the new scape can you incorporate one of the lilies into the tank? like the lotuses
I was thinking of using nymphae tiger lotus. I’m not quite sure how to use that plant nicely but I’d love to try
Hey, Ryo! Thank you from Seattle, WA. My wife and I just scored five platinum(?) Medaka for cheap ($5 ea vs. $65+ on ebay) for our paludarium and we're in love. Your video is so helpful-- now we're off to make a porch bowl pond!
Love your vids man! Just got some miyuki medakas here in the US (Colorado) and had to pay $10 per fish + shipping.... I've got lots of fry hatched out already and I'm going to bring some to the local fish store to try and make them a little more available here! I have yet to set up a little pond for them so theyve just been in my aquariums but that's the next step. How big of a bowl do you think you need minimum?
Hi Ryo! How often do you feed your medaka fish? Once a day? Thank you for the great video 😊
Good to have the farm tour. How to differentiate male and female ricefish? During your stay in Singapore, which local fish stall sell ricefish?
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Awesome new Medaka content from Sensei Ryo!🙏🙏🙌🙌 thanks for keeping so many of us around the world educated and engaged with keeping Medaka! I have finally two groups here in Barcelona: mixed “normal” strain, quite pretty to be honest, and Miyuki platinum, which are gorgeous. I’m dying to get some tricolors someday. Thanks, Ryo! Fantastic video!👌👍
Thank you! Hope you can find those tri colors someday :)
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You mentioned prices for the rice fish. I just bought 6 Medaka (golden rice fish) and it cost me £5.99 each total of £35.94 or ¥5924.40 a tad more expensive in the UK. I noticed bizarrely the blue daisy was cheaper and the store was a lot cheaper than online stores offer and this is a shame, I was actually at my mothers home when we saw them as I was setting up and remodelling her ponds and patio. Issue is mum lives 140 miles away from where I live in South West London.
how about cats do they catch fish or not ?
I kinda gave up breeding my orange medaka in a tub so I moved to a tank so I can observe them better. After a few days I noticed fry in the tub! I have 7 or 8 fry that made it, they are getting pretty big now. I still have 7 of the adults so I hope to get more fry from them.
I wish they were more popular in the states! They are so expensive and rare.
Ya,I can never find them in America 🇺🇸. Has nanyone had luck finding any rice fish?
@@emiliaroman8631 I'm in North Texas and two fish stores near me have started getting platinum medaka in sometimes. So, maybe they are going to be easier to find in the US soon.
They are getting more popular. There are many people breeding them in states now. Expect to see them much more available in 2021.
My red capped rice fish were $13 Canadian each. Gorgeous fish! Those fancy blues look amazing 😍
These fish brings back childhood memories... catching fish at the stream with friends , Thank you ~
Hi: You can use the 2-3 day method to dechlorinate if your water has only chlorine in it. However it’s common now for many municipalities to use chloramine which does not dissipate like chlorine and you need a chemical dechlorinator to get rid of it.
Thanks for the tip :)
Hey, I know its a kinda old video but wanted to ask, at 12:00, what is the name of this plant on this mini pond? is it hydrocotyle Verticillata or some kind of a peperomia? it looks amazing.
btw I love your videos and they are really inspiring/helpful on keeping medakas, I recently ordered some eggs and I will finally keep some myself.
Hello from Scotland, i have just found your video, im going to be setting up a patio pond tommorrow and i was looking for ideas, these little rice fish are fantastic , i keep white cloud mountain minnows & goldfish, im going to see if i can get rice fish for my wee mini pond now after watching your video if their available in my country cheers, yeti 🏴
Thank you so much :)
Impressive small rice fish ponds!
Ricefish are just too cute, have some too
I love that beautiful natural ponds.
Thanks 😊
How's your arowana in singapore?
The ponds are to small, isn't it animal cruelty?
No, they evolved to live in the shallow waters of rice fields
Please setup and film a tour of the rice fish breeder! The trees look awesome!!
Thank you!
In Australia, those colours are roughly $7 to $14 each. I'm selling yellow at $3 each
In the US it's easier to find mosquitofish which are comparable but less colorful.
Your medaka videos inspired me to build my own mini pond. I have water hyacinth and 7 gold medaka. I have one fish with some eggs!! 😍
So glad to hear that :) They'll definitely lay their egg in the roots of the hyacinth and you should be able to get more fish if you separate the hyacinth from the adults
I love your little ponds they are so nice ! What are the plants you have used in them ? and also what kind of soil and rocks have you used to keep the water so clear and prevent alagal bloom ?
Rice Fish usually cost around $12 per fish here in the United States.
I may have a stupid question, but do you have to take measurements against inbreeding in a minipond full.of ricefish? Or will it sort out for itself? I once had a group of guppies that grew fry with bend tails I think.due to inbreeding??
i just picked up 8 rice fish from my local fish store for $80 - so you getting 10 for $4 3 years ago is wild inflation
What is the name of the circular plant you have in your personal bowl at the end? It looks like a "chinese money " plant
Did anyone else have a anxiety attack worried he would knock the fish food into the bowls !
Awwwwwwe yesssss! Just picked up my first medaka today! Finally found them on Vancouver Island. Once I get them breeding, it will be patio pond time!
I was so interested by what you said about keeping them inside vs outside and the reason possibly being the sun - have you kept them indoors under a UVB light? Or know of anyone who has? And if that made a difference? I want to do an experiment now! Thank you for showing us these lovely fish and the patio ponds, I'm very jealous and inspired!
Rice fish are like $13 each here in Canada at my local fish store. So even getting enough to start breeding is painful.
Paying $2 per EGG in UK, nothing fancy either. 😆
I have my medaka in 150 gallon tub , they swim so fast and chase each other , why are they so aggressive ???
Wow medaka are so cheap in Japan! I just paid $35 for 8 platinum medaka.
Can the Japanese rice fish live with goldfish in a small container pond? W thank you.
So many fish
I just started keeping medaka for the first time this year. The climate is more extreme where I live. Winters are cold enough that ponds will freeze solid. So I have to bring my ricefish indoors.
In regards to higher temperatures - during the summer, my ricefish tolerated the higher temperatures, but if the water temperature was above 78F/25C, the eggs would fungus before the fry could hatch. Next summer, I plan to set up the outdoor ricefish pond in a more shaded area.
Ryo hear in America, the not so rare orange, white, platinum are bout $10 each. The blue, koi, myuki spangled are much more.
Yeah, there’s so many more varieties here that I want to film and show everyone. Maybe in the future :)
We have loads of cats, so when I get an outdoor pond set up I will have to put a mesh or something over it or the fish will get eaten. 2 streets away lives a lady with 12 cats, and she's not the only cat owner near us
Hi Ryo, do you have any experience with Paradise Fish?
They are illegal to own where I live, but I managed to get a hold of some hehe.
It must be your Japanese climate, It seems to alternate between summer/winter, with no real spring or autumn?
Can they survive in a Scottish climate outside ??
May I know when breeding it should I remove the male and female or do the parent need to take care of the baby
I hope that you are doing well in the year 2024🎉.
how many times per day do you feed them in that natural pond, is once a day is okay?
Will they eat hair algae off of aquatic plants?
Do bettas eat them? Can they live together?
What about stray cats in your neighbourhood??
Love your videos! I really wish I could find rice fish locally to me. I set up a mini pond late in the summer this year. I used gold white cloud minnows. But I want to do madaka.
Thank you very much! I would love to do a white cloud minnows pond or tank in the future.
@@RyoWatanabee I have regular white clouds with neon tetras in a 29 gallon. My wife was worried about the gold white clouds being outside over the winter, so I moved them in to the 29 as well. I’ll move them back outside in the spring and see if they’ll breed for me.
How can i contact u i wanna know where is medaka shop in japan😅😅
How cold does it get there in winter? What climate zone is it?
What is the brand of food ryo? And can you provide a link
I just subbed, liked, and commented.
I love the rice fish videos Ryo! I want to visit Japan when travel gets back to normal again. I want to see some of the fancy goldfish they have for sale there
they sell one rice fish for like 5-6 bucks. its insane
Is this fish available in Singapore?
I'm now sure that my fish is a Medaka fish
Awesome video, I love your videos.. Where is the farm tour that you mentioned the rice fish farm tour? Please send me link. 😊
Thank you, I don’t think I have done a tour yet! I will try to look for some farms! Thank you for reminding me
Amazing video, very impressive and informative.
Thank you :)
Nice video. I got my first medaka this year here in California, U.S. Looking forward to having a bunch of them.
Thank you!
what food is ok for them? i cant find ricefish food in the US
Yes the fish farm tour is a must these are fascinating fish which we don't really see in the UK but there are now a few breedes offering eggs ...ever thought of mailing eggs to your fans ? I am sure they would sell well they sell here 10 eggs for £15 on Ebay but eggs from good Japanese stock would sell for more.
I’d need a license to ship eggs and the person receiving needs a license too. Not easy shipping ricefish eggs out of Japan
It seem like you are in spring or summer, is this an old video? In my pond the plants are “sleeping” (Rome,Italy)
We are in late Autumn almost winter.
Ryo i think u should see if u could get a bigger tub to put the water hyisin. It would help the hyisin spread out more and grow more to. Love your videos keep up the amazing work.
Thanks but we don’t need it to grow anymore since it’ll just keep growing non stop
What is the content of the oath?
No air bubbler either?
I've been wondering about getting this fish for awhile. I can't find any info on whether or not it would be wise to keep them in my guppy fry tank.
I keep them with guppies without any problems. They are not aggressive. I have not kept them with long tailed guppies though. I still would not expect them to be fin nippers.
Cheers,
Chris
What kind of plant is that?
Do you have to have filters and air pumps in the bottom of those ceramic planters? And how big do those pots have to be?
They can be any size you want. The bigger, the better as smaller size tends to get dirty quicker. Ricefish don’t require filter and air pumps :)
Great looking fish. I have been tempted to do a small outdoor pond on my deck with them. Only concern is the summer it gets over 100 degrees in Texas.
Give them shade. They will be fine
@@RyoWatanabee Thank you. I will
Give it a try.
Question: What´s with this cricket sound in your videos every now and then? Makes me crazy, it´s the ringtones of my cell...I´m always looking thinking I get a call :)
Haha sorry 😅
Greetings from west central Florida. I love your channel !
Ty4Sharing GOD bless.
I would love to see a ricefish farm! I have some ricefish and they have been breeding like crazy, for the past two months!
If you’re in the US, where did you find them?
@@donnachavez8230 Just my loc a local fish club, West Coast, California.
What do you feed them?
@@Zari_ifa Just a variety of fish foods. Flakes, Nano Xtreme, Bug Bites, maybe some Xtreme green flakes. They're in a community tank so I rotate the food daily.
HOW DO YOU CLEAN THE WATER?
how hot does it get?
Really cool fish
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nice
ryo san, what kind of medaka fish did you take care of?
Just the regular red, white and black rice fish