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, […]
Love them or hate them, theyre a vital part of the ecosystem of any water system. I personally love a quick, scaleable animal that quickly breeds to take over a niche. Snails are the ideal litmus test for overfeeding. You overfeed, they’re likely to bloom exponentially, telling the feeder “Hey, maybe slow down a bit”. For medaka I can recommend […]
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 […]
Every time I buy a small sponge or corner filter, I feel like I could make this stuff better and cheaper, so I did. This is like one of those online recipes where the author fills the content with so much backstory I get bored after 4 seconds and just want the facts. So here: Ingredients for bulk: First you […]
In this post I will try and explain the cheapest and easiest way to make green water. Depending on the volume of green water required you may need to scale up to some extra storage for extra green water but two buckets is probably the easiest way of dealing with making green water. First find a very sunny position where […]
