Medaka

My father gave me some Medakas that were a kind of fish three weeks ago. I enjoyed them. What can I call them in English? Though I was looking for the word in a Japanese-English dictionary, there wasn't the exact word that I was looking for. One dictionary says Medaka means "Japanese rice-fish" and another says it's "Oryzias latipes" or "killifish". I wonder if Medaka is a Japanese fish. It's interesting for me to know that it's an original Japanese fish. Certainly, Medaka is a Japanese word in which "Me" means eyes and "daka" means highly positioned, that is, "Me-daka" means fishes that have eyes highly positioned. Funny that I didn't notice before!

I bought an aquarium and moved them to the new house. As I counted them while moving, I figured out how many Medakas I had. That's 30 Medakas! After moving to the aquarium, they swam comfortably in the wider place. Yesterday night, my husband and I found a lot of roe and removed the only roe to the other container to prevent the adult fish from eating them. According to information about Medakas, the roe hatches after about 10 days. We're looking forward to meeting new Medakas.

Although we didn't find that Medakas were very pretty before we had them, we like them very much and we think they are as lovely as dogs and cats. I told my French friend about Medakas and he just said "Japanese like fish very much." I wonder if we Japanese really love fish.