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, […]

Infusoria

This is probably one of the easiest water live foods to create and culture. All you really need is a jar and some lettuce. But there are a few ways to make it more effective. View this post on Instagram A post shared by hei’wa medaka (@hei_wa_medaka) View this post on Instagram A post shared by hei’wa medaka (@hei_wa_medaka) Get […]

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 […]