The Truth About Your NEW Favorite Fish...

[@Thehoeh]

A video of you going to Japan to learn more about the rice fish natural habitat, cultural significance, and possibly obtaining rare variant video when? 👀

[@AQUAPROS]

I wish! You never know....😎

[@ZenCoryCat]

That would be awesome.

[@marcuswhitmore6622]

Another super video about rice fish, I will never get tired of hearing about this incredible little fish. As you know I love keeping them here in the UK, I net my tubs to help stop birds transferring eggs, plants etc.

[@matthewsmith22]

Repotted my lilies today, getting the tubs ready! did some maintenance on my bigger pond with koi and goldfish, low and behold, rice fish in there with them. What an awesome fish!

[@HappyOne2017]

Did you put them in there?

[@matthewsmith22]

@@HappyOne2017 I put plants from an aquarium in, I tend to throw certain ones in for the pond fish to eat.

[@jonisolis9645]

I read that ducks and other water birds move fish from pond to pond and other waterways usually from eggs that get stuck in their feathers or on their feet. They also move plants the same way. Frogs have moved duckweed from one of my little ponds to others.

[@AQUAPROS]

Duckweed would be super easy to move! Makes sense!

[@evalyer]

My personal fry food mix that I feed for Fry, baby shrimp, and even the adult medaka: Tertra tropical grains (ground with mortar and pestal), dried spirulina, tiny pinch of Indian almond leaf powder. I make nearly all a powder with a couple slightly bigger chunks. This will make instant biofilm on the surface and other things and anything floating/sinking is small enough for medaka to eat.

[@The_Fairy_Godfather]

I've not heard of any restrictions here in the UK, I saw a video of someone in Ireland that keeps his rice fish outside all year round. Mine have been spawning in doors all winter and i have tons of platinum whites. Im gunna try mine outside when the summer comes and i can kinda match the temperature to my indoor tank.

[@zacharykunzer2823]

MN Zach here. 1st things first… keep the rice fish videos coming. Truly don’t mind it at all, although I’d love to see an update on your guppies, and also results from your food tests. 2nd… I for real thought there was some weird video editing glitch or witchcraft happening at 4:10 because I’d never seen your rainbows so still before. One side of your head had movement and the other side was dead still… until they moved just slightly 😅😂 Keep em coming Mike! Thanks for all you do! I’m ordering more LEGIT tonight 👌

[@AQUAPROS]

Hahah heck ya Zachary! Cheers dude! 🫡😎😎😎

[@deansfishroom]

Really nice ricefish video Mike, well done!

[@AQUAPROS]

Dean 🫡 my man, thanks 😎

[@TurleS13]

I need more rice fish videos!! I just bought 25 blue platinum eggs and i am so excited to get into these little guys. Thanks to you!

[@csharpe5787]

I remove algae regularly from my pond it’s usually covered in eggs, so I put them asid. That’s my spawning mops.

[@Knein1967]

I wonder if a wad of java moss from an established aquarium would help in the baby tubs?

[@matthewsmith22]

I think here in Britain we're pretty sensitive to invasive species, elodea has caused some major issues in water ways. Signal crayfish have out competed/killed off native crayfish, destroying river banks. Water hyacinth got banned a few years ago (gutted about that one).

[@Cordeneaux87]

Love this. Great ideas and inspiration. Coming from someone who is a Mar Bio background and now teaches all the environmental sciences, you should be fine. I think the worst case scenario would be it being classified as a " naturalized species" like goldfish, because they are not likely to dramatically alter the ecosystem. If you are actually concerned about this, hit me up and I can talk you through it all.

[@AQUAPROS]

Thats basically the concensus in the hobby. Like its not great but they shouldnt have the ability to to really take off 🤷‍♂️

[@the.medaka.lair.]

Great video man. Lots of good info for folks starting out. Selection is always difficult and you'll find if you really start digging for certain traits there are maybe only 5 out of 100. Thats one of the things that can make the breeding tedious. Also when notes come in handy. Haha. Cant wait to see what comes of the season. Enjoy the relax time brother 💪🏼💪🏼

[@AQUAPROS]

My dude! Cant wait!!!!!

[@nathanieldeboyo5537]

To think the local shops dont have rice fish To expensive to get into the country due to import rules and so on But they are 100% on my wishlist

[@cnjhendricks]

I love Ricefish! Got mine at the 2022 Dallas Aquashella. I keep mine outdoors all year here in DFW zone 8a. Only the top 4" freezes on my buckets during the winter, so far the strong survive and reproduce each year. Only challenge I have is predatory water bugs.

[@AQUAPROS]

Zone 8a approved! Thanks for that ;) what water bugs are we talkin about????

[@cnjhendricks]

@@AQUAPROS dragon and damsel fly nymphs mostly but also water beetles. I assume baby rice fish are super yummy to bugs. So maybe next year I will breed a Radish Fish.

[@jonisolis9645]

@@AQUAPROS I am in zone 8b in Louisiana and I missed a long-fin zebra danio in my 120 gallon above ground pond and he survived and we had a hard cold spell this past winter. I want to try ricefish out in my little ponds.

[@ZenCoryCat]

I don't read a lot of the comments you get, but i am always happy to hear about rice fish and what you're up to with them. I live in Yuma, AZ, with a west facing patio, so they would cook in these conditions, or I would definitely be setting up a rice fish pond. Thanks!

[@AQUAPROS]

Would it be possible to keep the surface temp below ~110F? Just curious!

[@ZenCoryCat]

@@AQUAPROS I'm not sure, to be honest 🤔. Could they survive the kind heat? There is no sun block at all and gets up to 120 in the summer. I kind of think pond season would be winter time for me. That would not give them that cold break though.

[@AQUAPROS]

@@ZenCoryCat i just dont know AZ that well, i know you can have 120F days in the summer, the ricefish can tolerate like up to 108F, not ideal obviously but if your pond is 2ft deep and in the full shade im pretty sure if would be much cooler at the bottom, ypud just have to do a little more research if you really wanna do it 🤷‍♂️

[@ZenCoryCat]

@@AQUAPROSI think you're right. it's worth testing the water temps, at least.

[@AQUAPROS]

@@ZenCoryCat i think you could safely pull it off with a deep enough planter and maybe an airstone if youre nervous.. good luck!

[@garageaquatics2023]

NIce pitch! and helpful. Now I wonder if I can ger away with pond raising them here in Palm Desert, CA? 🙂~Ron

[@kwackytankslap9339]

TIL keeping rice fish outside in the UK is prohibited. I'm hoping the police have better things to do than check what's in my garden.

[@benmilner9672]

Keep the rice, pay the price. (and no, UK police certainly have nothing better to do).

[@mrstevo32100]

Cool video 👍

[@AQUAPROS]

Cheers 🤙🤙

[@bongminx666]

my galaxy medaka suprisingly spawned on my birthday (4/20) and the first baby fry hatched out yesterday, followed by 2 hatching out today! I'm in the southern hemisphere too so these are winter fry! now I have to figure out how to get the parents to stop spawning hahah. also, humans are an invasive species so ricefish are baby.

[@AndrewOudin]

great stuff!

[@evalyer]

I love my Onyx Medaka, unfortunately I got nothing but males..... so no babies. They are such good little fish and they are GREAT microfauna hunters. Mine chase anything small enough to fit in mouth.

[@AQUAPROS]

Ahhh that a bummer, maybe you can get a few more and hope for a female or 2??? 🤷‍♂️

[@darrylmoore5847]

The big invasive cichlid species in Florida would eat the rice fish before they could get a foothold.

[@mich421]

During treatment in a separate aquarium because I think I bought them sick, can I feed my medaka or is it not recommended? How long can they last without eating?

[@the.medaka.lair.]

Personally I wouldn't feed while treating. They can go for very long periods of time without eating. Talking months. They'll be ok 💪🏼🤙🏼

[@mich421]

@@the.medaka.lair. I don't know if I can save them. I think they have Anchor worm parasites

[@benmilner9672]

@@mich421 Anchor worms are pretty obvious, clearly visible.

[@mountainhobbit1971]

stomach-less fish? I have also heard that the people in Florida are very invasive. ;-)

[@TheFurlock]

Rice fish are related to minnows, there is nothing in them that is invasive to North America.

[@bettymarcos8500]

They do eat mosquitoes

[@niwakatsu]

😊👍✨

[@dragon6irl]

I cry myself to sleep every night knowing snakeheads are illegal to own in the US.

[@AQUAPROS]

dont forget Asian Arowana :(

[@josephs4212]

Can you sell me some rice fish?