I thought the little MeDaka fish were doing good. We started them in a smaller rain-water collector along with the water grass. After they seemed to have laid eggs we moved some of the water grass to this bigger container. And then we had eight or so new Medaka fish from the four of five we had impulse bought. They made it through last winter, they'd didn't need any equipment or electricity.. Eventually we forgot to feed them, I stopped pouring new water in from up high to aerate the water. But the still seemed to be living just fine. We forgot about them with all the new chicks I guess and now there only seems to be this one skinny fish left.. The poor thing! We drop in food every once in a while now... We should really raise the native species of Medaka, and maybe Dojo (the most protein of any freshwater fish!! Could be insurance against a downed grid!).. So these orange store-bought fish just provided training... Who knew they could over-winter, or survive this long with no aquarium equipment? But now we know they DO need a minimal amount of care...
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Last year we set up the rain-catching ceramic container with pet-store water-grass and little MeDaka fish. Everyonce in a while the plants just sudeenly flower, always a nice suprise. We don't remember to feed the fish any more but they survive somehow. The plants and the rainwater must have settled into some sort of sustainable ecology for the little MeDaka fish. We increased them by moving a few egg-laden plants to another container. It was great to see they survived last winter too. I didn't know to hope for that, and it just worked out. It's great to discover that the water-plants flower and the little orange MeDaka fish survive, and you don't have to buy equipment or waste electricity... We should have got the native variety of MeDaka fish but I didn't expect it all to work out this well so we ended up going the easy route: just buying the living things at a DIY store we had to stop at for a rest-room break...
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