Advice on feeding extra tilapia fingerlings to chickens? - Aquaponic Gardening2024-03-29T05:19:13Zhttps://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/forum/topics/advice-on-feeding-extra-tilapia-fingerlings-to-chickens?commentId=4778851%3AComment%3A415614&feed=yes&xn_auth=noTransporting fish has a few u…tag:aquaponicgardening.ning.com,2012-12-15:4778851:Comment:4231612012-12-15T22:25:21.915Zjim mckeehttps://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/profile/jimmckee
<p>Transporting fish has a few unique requirements that must be met or you will have dead fish. And you are right about shareing. </p>
<p>jim<br></br><br></br><cite>Bobby McGovern said:</cite></p>
<blockquote cite="http://community.theaquaponicsource.com/forum/topics/advice-on-feeding-extra-tilapia-fingerlings-to-chickens#4778851Comment411934"><div><div class="xg_user_generated"><p>Why not offer them to members who are interested. Give them away and let whoever is interested pay the shipping.…</p>
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<p>Transporting fish has a few unique requirements that must be met or you will have dead fish. And you are right about shareing. </p>
<p>jim<br/><br/><cite>Bobby McGovern said:</cite></p>
<blockquote cite="http://community.theaquaponicsource.com/forum/topics/advice-on-feeding-extra-tilapia-fingerlings-to-chickens#4778851Comment411934"><div><div class="xg_user_generated"><p>Why not offer them to members who are interested. Give them away and let whoever is interested pay the shipping. </p>
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</blockquote> In my gravel pit "system" gro…tag:aquaponicgardening.ning.com,2012-12-03:4778851:Comment:4205102012-12-03T01:37:09.961ZLarry Dale Smithhttps://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/profile/LarryDaleSmith
<p>In my gravel pit "system" growing duck weed helped suck up extra nutrients that were burning my plants while I could only pump once a week much of the summer due to the low water table, helped keep the pond cool too (the sun sure beats down on it) till my trees get big enough to shade it.</p>
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<p>I will have to remember this when I get to many bass fry, or if despite the bass I end up with so many minnows in the pond they are squeezing each other out of the water again!…<img src="http://www.bkserv.net/images/Smile.gif"></img></p>
<p>In my gravel pit "system" growing duck weed helped suck up extra nutrients that were burning my plants while I could only pump once a week much of the summer due to the low water table, helped keep the pond cool too (the sun sure beats down on it) till my trees get big enough to shade it.</p>
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<p>I will have to remember this when I get to many bass fry, or if despite the bass I end up with so many minnows in the pond they are squeezing each other out of the water again!<img src="http://www.bkserv.net/images/Smile.gif"/></p> Keep in mind, that when you t…tag:aquaponicgardening.ning.com,2012-11-13:4778851:Comment:4157962012-11-13T00:36:22.300ZTCLynxhttps://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/profile/TCLynx
<p>Keep in mind, that when you try to grow duckweed in a system, it will suck up nutrients often before your veggies can get them.</p>
<p>Keep in mind, that when you try to grow duckweed in a system, it will suck up nutrients often before your veggies can get them.</p> I'm growing duckweed with my…tag:aquaponicgardening.ning.com,2012-11-12:4778851:Comment:4159422012-11-12T18:09:34.880ZRoe Siehttps://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/profile/RoeSie
<p>I'm growing duckweed with my aquaponics and the baby tilapia love it. Doesn't seem to grow very fast at all in the aquaponics system. I've put a bunch more fingerlings in the tank to try to kick up the nutrient levels to see if that helps.</p>
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<p>Very interesting discussion on the omega-3s. The complaints that I read about regarding low omega 3s in tilapia all seem to stem from commercially farmed tilapia. One of the reasons for raising my own tilapia was the assumption that if I…</p>
<p>I'm growing duckweed with my aquaponics and the baby tilapia love it. Doesn't seem to grow very fast at all in the aquaponics system. I've put a bunch more fingerlings in the tank to try to kick up the nutrient levels to see if that helps.</p>
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<p>Very interesting discussion on the omega-3s. The complaints that I read about regarding low omega 3s in tilapia all seem to stem from commercially farmed tilapia. One of the reasons for raising my own tilapia was the assumption that if I fed them duckweed, black soldier fly grubs, and the expensive fish food, they'd have higher omega 3s than the commercial ones fed primarily corn and soy. Has anyone discovered any data regarding the fat profile of commercially raised tilapia vs aquaponic tliapia? It's a little prohibitively expensive to go out and spend $500 at a food lab.</p>
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<p>ps: update on feeding fingerlings to chickens: first try, not very interested. I came back a week later, and they went totally crazy over the fingerlings. couldn't get enough and they chased each other around trying to get each other's snacks.</p> This is fascinating! I have b…tag:aquaponicgardening.ning.com,2012-11-11:4778851:Comment:4156262012-11-11T01:07:09.010ZAlex Veidelhttps://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/profile/AlexVeidel
<p>This is fascinating! I have been wondering what to do with extra tilapia fingerlings. I'll have to try this with my chickens!</p>
<p>This is fascinating! I have been wondering what to do with extra tilapia fingerlings. I'll have to try this with my chickens!</p> If you are trying to grow veg…tag:aquaponicgardening.ning.com,2012-11-10:4778851:Comment:4156142012-11-10T23:24:44.942ZTCLynxhttps://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/profile/TCLynx
<p>If you are trying to grow veggies from your AP system then yes, growing duckweed or other water plants to feed the fish will be robbing your veggies of nutrients.</p>
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<p>Keep in mind that with tilapia you should probably not supplement more than 50% of their diet with duckweed since any more than that and you are likely to have reduced growth rates.</p>
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<p>Duckweed and water hyacinth (where legal), do use up ammonia directly (as do many water and pond plants) and can do quite…</p>
<p>If you are trying to grow veggies from your AP system then yes, growing duckweed or other water plants to feed the fish will be robbing your veggies of nutrients.</p>
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<p>Keep in mind that with tilapia you should probably not supplement more than 50% of their diet with duckweed since any more than that and you are likely to have reduced growth rates.</p>
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<p>Duckweed and water hyacinth (where legal), do use up ammonia directly (as do many water and pond plants) and can do quite a bit to help keep water clean. But as noted, maybe too much if you actually want to grow veggies so using a separate pool with a little aeration can probably grow more fodder without throwing your AP system too far out of whack.</p>
<p></p> I did have some duckweed but …tag:aquaponicgardening.ning.com,2012-11-10:4778851:Comment:4154462012-11-10T22:15:08.633ZJohn Cubithttps://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/profile/JohnCubit
<p>I did have some duckweed but recently disposed of all of it. I would recommend that you use a separate tank, bucket to grow in. Also be aware that if it has been taken from the wild you run a good chance of picking up unwanted guest like snails. I did find the separate tank was good when I had high ammonia in the water. The duckweed flourished. Almost doubled every 7 days, and yes the fish loved it. Problem I ran into was it grew to fast and I did not stay on top of harvesting so once…</p>
<p>I did have some duckweed but recently disposed of all of it. I would recommend that you use a separate tank, bucket to grow in. Also be aware that if it has been taken from the wild you run a good chance of picking up unwanted guest like snails. I did find the separate tank was good when I had high ammonia in the water. The duckweed flourished. Almost doubled every 7 days, and yes the fish loved it. Problem I ran into was it grew to fast and I did not stay on top of harvesting so once it started to rot all of it started to rot and man did it stink!</p> Has anyone tried growing duck…tag:aquaponicgardening.ning.com,2012-11-10:4778851:Comment:4156112012-11-10T21:50:07.349ZKylehttps://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/profile/Kyle
<p>Has anyone tried growing duckweed before for the fish to eat? Or water hyacinth (where legal)? Both of those plants grow fairly fast and I hear some fish love to eat hyacinth roots. That might help cut the cost of buying feed and you can grow both plants in your sump tank if you have one. Just submerge a frame with a window screen in it to keep the plants from going in to your pump.<br></br><br></br>The water hyacinth can also be fed to chickens/ducks/guineas and it grows so fast you might have to…</p>
<p>Has anyone tried growing duckweed before for the fish to eat? Or water hyacinth (where legal)? Both of those plants grow fairly fast and I hear some fish love to eat hyacinth roots. That might help cut the cost of buying feed and you can grow both plants in your sump tank if you have one. Just submerge a frame with a window screen in it to keep the plants from going in to your pump.<br/><br/>The water hyacinth can also be fed to chickens/ducks/guineas and it grows so fast you might have to compost a lot of it.</p> Well keep in mind to get the…tag:aquaponicgardening.ning.com,2012-10-31:4778851:Comment:4124602012-10-31T14:08:03.632ZTCLynxhttps://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/profile/TCLynx
<p>Well keep in mind to get the right omegas, you have to feed the fish something that will give them the right omegas. If you are feeding omnivore fish mostly corn/soy diet their omega levels will be poor. If you feed cows on a mostly corn/soy diet theirs will be poor too. If you feed the fish a more natural diet you will get better omega levels but that can be really hard to do in an aquaponics system. Cows on the other hand can eat grass and they will become healthier for us to eat but…</p>
<p>Well keep in mind to get the right omegas, you have to feed the fish something that will give them the right omegas. If you are feeding omnivore fish mostly corn/soy diet their omega levels will be poor. If you feed cows on a mostly corn/soy diet theirs will be poor too. If you feed the fish a more natural diet you will get better omega levels but that can be really hard to do in an aquaponics system. Cows on the other hand can eat grass and they will become healthier for us to eat but that only works if you have the land to raise the cows on.</p>
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<p>Feeding the tilapia to your chickens won't be any worse than feeding the corn based commercial feeds to your chickens. Try to provide lots of green forage and let them dig for bugs and stuff and that should help some.</p>
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<p>I'd like to get away from the mostly gmo corn/soy based commercial fish feeds (and other animal feeds) but I can't really afford $5 a pound plus shipping for the feed to grow out $1 worth of fish when I still have to pay for the electricity and all my other bills. There are whole groups on developing your own fish feed here.</p> Tilapia are already low on th…tag:aquaponicgardening.ning.com,2012-10-31:4778851:Comment:4124562012-10-31T11:25:01.935ZJohn Cubithttps://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/profile/JohnCubit
<p>Tilapia are already low on the omega's, they are a gateway fish. A good fish for those who don't like to eat fish but not for those looking for a major source of omega's</p>
<p>Tilapia are already low on the omega's, they are a gateway fish. A good fish for those who don't like to eat fish but not for those looking for a major source of omega's</p>