◆For those considering medaka breeding
Medaka is the best fish for anyone who wants to keep fish. The body is small, so you don't need a big container, and you can buy 4 kinds of common black medaka, black medaka, white medaka, and blue medaka that you often see in stores.

Outside, you don't have to pay for equipment filters, aeration, lighting, heaters, etc.

Forget about time when you see the swarm swimming after all.I love how I swim coolly, especially on summer mornings and dusk.

◆Breeding of medaka is deep！

However, although killifish are easy to buy, raising them is not that easy. How did you feel when you saw someone else's blog?

Don't you think there is a lot to do when breeding? Did you think that you had to prepare a lot of preparations and prepare them? That's right.It is also a deep and difficult fish.

Medaka is a fish with a strong vitality, but it will show its true value if properly kept. If you don't take good care of yourself, such as changing water, maintaining aquatic plants, feeding, spawning and raising fry, the killifish will die in no time.

Even if you just put it in a container and raise it by yourself, it will be alive to some extent, but it will disappear.It was a series of failures because I started breeding medaka with my ignorance just as I remembered when I was a child.

◆Things to prepare for medaka breeding
・container
　Choose a medaka breeding container with a wider swimming space than one with deep water
・Aquatic plants

　Choose submerged plants such as matsumo and anacaris
・Soil
　Choose Akadama soil, Arakida soil, aquatic plant culture soil
・bait
　It may be a live feed such as akamushi or commercial food such as medaka food and pleco.
・Breeding water
　Place tap water that has been pumped for about half a day, or add the neutralizing agent and remove the scalp.

◆container
　A medaka breeding container. Choose one with more swimming space than one with deep water. The container does not need water lily pots, planters, and bottom holes for flower pots.

　Since it breeds, it is necessary to have a container for raising the medaka hatched from eggs, in addition to the container for raising the parent medaka.

　The approximate number of individuals suitable for a container is 10 at 30 cm, 20 at 60 cm, and 30 at 90 cm. The larger the container, the greater the amount of water, and the more stable the water temperature and water quality, the lower the risk of medaka having poor body length and death.

　Water lilies are available in pottery or FRP, a light fiber reinforced plastic. The plastic and toro vessels used by plasterers are also wide and easy to grow.If you don't care about durability, you can use styrene foam.

◆Aquatic plants
　It will be a place for spawning and hideouts for medaka. It prevents medaka spawning eggs and hatched fry from being eaten by other medaka fish.

　It is also useful for water purification, and aquatic plants clean up harmful substances such as food residues and feces.

　Submerged plants such as matsumo and squirrels, and the floating plant Hotei grass for spawning beds, are aquatic plants that go well with medaka. Matsumo and Anacaris are perennials that can also be wintered, and Hotei grass is a severe annual winter.

　You can purchase Matsumo and Anakaris from around 600 yen, and Hotei grass from around 300 yen.

※Hotei grass can be wintered if it is grown indoors in a warm and sunny environment.

◆bait
　I tried various kinds of medaka food, but now I am using medaka food and pleco. Pleco especially eats not only medaka but also other aquatic organisms such as southern shrimp and Himetanishi. In particular, it supplements the lack of moss, which is the food of Himetanishi, and the survival rate of Himetanishi is very high.