The NEXT POPULAR FISH – Japanese Ricefish – Medaka – Oryzias latipes – Rice Fish
Ricefish are hopefully available at your local fish store by now in some form. We sell several varieties in our store in Edmonds, Washington. The longfin and platinum varieties shown in my tanks in the video I purchased from Dan’s Fish. Link for the orange longfins: https://dansfish.com/ref/aquariumcoop/7443 and link for the platinum with blue: https://dansfish.com/ref/aquariumcoop/7419 use code: aquariumcoop to save 5% and earn us a commission. Also I know that Aprils Aquariums in Canada has brought in some of the platinum rice fish and will be out of quarantine soon.
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The longfin and platinum varieties shown in my tanks in the video I purchased from Dan's Fish. Link for the orange longfins: https://dansfish.com/ref/aquariumcoop/7443 Link for the platinum with blue: https://dansfish.com/ref/aquariumcoop/7419 use code: aquariumcoop to save 5% and earn us a commission. Also I know that Aprils Aquariums in Canada has brought in some of the platinum rice fish and will be out of quarantine soon.
If you get some Japanese Rice Fish, try our Easy Spawning Mop. To try the method mentioned in the video, grab two! https://www.aquariumcoop.com/products/easy-spawning-mop
I love Medaka rice fish! I’m excited to see what the future holds for them here in the USA!
I need to get my hands on some ricefish!
Bullet Proof and Beautiful, Medaka Ricefish might just be the perfect aquarium fish. Mine love the Easy Community Floating Pellet…it is a great size for them and doesn't make a mess in the tank.
I kept them like seven years ago before any stores near me kept them regularly, since then they’ve exploded in the St. Louis area, they’re my favorite fish. Plus, they get really personable for such a small fish.
I love these fish! They breed outdoors with zero work. I don't even feed them because there is plenty of live food to eat in a tub. They also overwinter in zone 6A, Northern Indiana!
I'm so glad to see this video as ACO is my fave informative fish keeping channel, and I've been thinking a lot lately that I might want to try medaka in my next tank or mini pond (I haven't decided which I want to try yet).
I just got a batch this month. 😄 But I haven't seen any locally and had to order them online. I heard about them when I started raising brine shrimp because I wanted a fishtank, but not complicated or inside. Sooo…I found rice fish.
Great video!
I will be rewatching this one!
I live in Japan and have a bowl of platinum rice fish at my front door. If you don't have them yet go, get them. You won't regret it.
In bowls, do they tend to jump out?
I haven't seen the video yet, but they have been the next popular fish for years now. And they are awesome! Easy to keep, perfect for low-tech tanks, indoor/outdoor, great colors. Love them!
I just put mine outside today. 😂 🍚 🐟
I bought them as eggs this spring. They are happily playing in outside tub among water lilies now. I like them a lot.
I have around a hundred atm, mix of black diamond, tri-color, ulysses, Orochi and a few others.
Medaka are my life. I wake up and go to bed thinking about them. I've been trying my best to grow and spread a traditional Medaka community here in the states for the past 6 years now. I'm so happy to see they are picking up in popularity. I do think spreading the information that they're 100% bulletproof and will breed for you no matter what and proliferate is kind of not the best thing to spread around because they do need a lot of work to maintain correctly. There's so much more that goes into keeping them the right way then just putting them in water. Although that's another way to do it 😂😂 Honestly in the end it's just about healthy fish and happy people so who cares. Going to be doing some stuff with Bob (steenfott aquatics)soon now that he's come down to California. 💪🏼🎏🎏
i have recently been mixing my Tri colour rice fish with gold lame and now i have a tri colour lame i hope one day to further breed them with my platium blue fins but ive been keeping ricefish for over 3 years now selling eggs here has become a second hobby to me while selling my plants from my tank funds my hobby and means i can buy more ricefish 🙂
I Keep rice fish outside in tubs, pots, and ponds year round in south florida without issues. as long as they have partial shade they are perfectly fine.
I was told longfin rice fish will have a harder time with their eggs. I'm not sure what's the % of hatched rate. But I was told to use mainly young fish with shorter growing fin for spawning
When h went to Tokyo I seen a portion of the airport that was full of planted aquariums with these rice fish in them it was awesome I thought they were a type of guppy but I know now.
Rice fish have been one of the ones I've been considering for my future Willamette valley outdoor ponds! It's good to hear all the positives about them! I'd also been considering mosquito fish. I can't wait to try the rice fish!
Because I do love them I will give away the biggest breeding tip. Absolutely no shrimp or snails! They destroy the eggs nightly!
Also would love some purple longfin if anyone could hook a fishy friend up with a solid contact.
they look like guppies to be honest, it will take a while to create nice coloration out of these.
I have 10 Blue Sparkle Medaka Ricefish in a 720 gallon aquaponics pond. I’m excited to get babies
great video, very interesting! This is perfect timing for me because I was thinking of a small, table-top aquarium for my balcony. Thanks, Cory!
Kinda like a zebra danios. 😮
Im so lucky i live here in Japan and it so happened there are 2 Medaka farms in my home town where they sell very cheap.
I have 9 platinums i got from Aquahuna for Father's Day. I'm absolutely smitten over these little guys. I have them currently growing out in a 29 gallon with some gold white clouds and pepper corydoras and this has got to be my favorite little community tank. The medaka and white clouds almost seem to try to school together, but swim so differently. It's really fun to watch. Everyone got a lot more active in that tank once I added the medaka. I just ordered some blue eggs from ebay because the addiction is real. Mine are still too young to produce eggs, and im really impatient.
I teach First Grade, and they are perfect for the classroom! They are small, hardy, and don’t need a heater. I have a small, planted tank in our reading corner. The kids love them!
Miyuki ricefish are going crazy so far this tub season.
Sunshine. Daphnia. And water hyacinth for spawning media.
Underrated fish!
I have a pair of ricefish in an outdoor mini pond and like every other day I check the spawning mops and loft like between 8-18 eggs every two days
Not sure why. We use these fish as feeder fish….
I live in central wa and mine did great in over 100 degree weather. I have 5 tricolor lame adults and about 600 fry😂. Just ordered a stock pond. They go bonkers for aquarium co-op brand brine shrimp!
Medaka keeper here in Italy. Medaka keeping growing over here too – especially as they do a great job eating mosquitoes in the summer.
Set up 3 mini ponds this spring with some:
1. Yellow reckless longfin
2. Blue
3. White Tiger Lamè
They’re a great fish, beautiful and easy to keep. I’ve already got 3 smaller containers full of fry from each variety.
Just got my 1 year membership coin and I'm pretty sure the discount has made it more than worth it for the year buying (mostly) needed fish and aquarium related items, Woo, also great video.
I wasn't aware of this fish, thanks for sharing!
🇧🇷 peixe lindo muito lindo mesmo 😮
Great video! I became really intrigued with medaka almost a year ago. I’m now up to 6 varieties. They are fantastic fish, and the breeding reminds me of guppies with the different colors and fin shapes but so much easier since they are eggs layers and don’t store sperm like guppies. I’ve switched out all but 2 of my guppies strains with medaka and it feels so freeing!
I bred the koi variety for about a year, nobody wanted them around me. I hope they come into their popularity because I really loved keeping them.
Here before rice fish blow up 🙏
I'm so happy to see medaka featured in your video!
Japanese medaka are constantly evolving and truly fascinating fish.
I create videos to share the beauty of Japanese medaka,
and I hope more aquarists around the world will discover how amazing they are!
That is a very cool fish. Hard for me to get them and the shipping is crazy.
Have you ever tried raising Pygmy Sunfish? That would be a nice video.
I have to check more in my area for these fish. I always wanted to try a couple.
I just found my first rice fish and cherrybard babys, cardinal tetras are also spawning a lot 🍀🌱👍🥰
Do they eat mosquitoes? Is there a danger of them becoming invasive in the wild ?
So more hardy then guppies