Raising young Medaka

A lot of Medaka keeping is very easy, they are quite hardy, but one aspect is a little harder then all the rest. The growing of extremely young fry. They’ll breed quite freely and you probably will get lots of eggs if you feed them well and give them temps above 18c. Breeding them is easy enough, male and female, […]

PSB and bacteria

When people think of a clean fish tank they envisage a crystal clean water tank with perfect, no algae and debris clean tank. In nature this is the polar opposite of how clean works, in nature a clean environment is a stable water source with a whole ecosystem working in tandem to provide clean water. In your fish tank or […]

Culturing Daphnia for Medaka

View this post on Instagram A post shared by hei’wa medaka (@hei_wa_medaka) Culturing daphnia is quite easy. I dabbled with various methods (green water, dry spirulina, dry chlorella, yeast, etc ) but by far the easiest is simply growing them in pure green water. I will also link to another article I call my “Two Bucket system” for creating green […]