Tilapia food - Aquaponic Gardening2024-03-30T09:01:56Zhttps://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/forum/topics/tilapia-food?commentId=4778851%3AComment%3A19885&feed=yes&xn_auth=noChris,
I have read and plan o…tag:aquaponicgardening.ning.com,2012-05-16:4778851:Comment:3362732012-05-16T12:11:24.600ZBob Ventohttps://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/profile/BobVento
<p>Chris,</p>
<p>I have read and plan on using rabbit food along with lettuce scraps cut very small as feed for my tilapia.<a rel="nofollow" style="cursor: pointer;"> <img src="http://www.bkserv.net/images/Grin.gif"/></a><br/><br/>In the states it's about $8 for a 25lb bag, but wonder how much it would be out there on the islands? <br/><br/>What waste product do you have access too?</p>
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<p>Chris,</p>
<p>I have read and plan on using rabbit food along with lettuce scraps cut very small as feed for my tilapia.<a rel="nofollow" style="cursor: pointer;"> <img src="http://www.bkserv.net/images/Grin.gif"/></a><br/><br/>In the states it's about $8 for a 25lb bag, but wonder how much it would be out there on the islands? <br/><br/>What waste product do you have access too?</p>
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<p>Bob</p> Hi Chris,
That is great info.…tag:aquaponicgardening.ning.com,2012-05-16:4778851:Comment:3359512012-05-16T02:30:09.100ZPaul Smithhttps://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/profile/PaulSmith
<p>Hi Chris,</p>
<p>That is great info. Here in SW Washington, we have slugs in abundance, not any snails that I know of.</p>
<p>I don't have an aquaponic system up and running yet. We are just getting used to our new digs here in Longview, Washington. It is a great community, smaller than our old digs in Portland, Oregon.</p>
<p>I do have plans from Tim and Susanne for a home system. I do devour every Friendly newsletter. I hope to get to Hawaii and see their operation.</p>
<p>Hi Chris,</p>
<p>That is great info. Here in SW Washington, we have slugs in abundance, not any snails that I know of.</p>
<p>I don't have an aquaponic system up and running yet. We are just getting used to our new digs here in Longview, Washington. It is a great community, smaller than our old digs in Portland, Oregon.</p>
<p>I do have plans from Tim and Susanne for a home system. I do devour every Friendly newsletter. I hope to get to Hawaii and see their operation.</p> Hey Paul, I know Tim and Susa…tag:aquaponicgardening.ning.com,2012-05-15:4778851:Comment:3356592012-05-15T07:23:32.804ZChris Smithhttps://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/profile/ChrisSmith
<p>Hey Paul, I know Tim and Susanne. I visit their farm on a regular basis. Their snail issue was with water snails in their troughs, not land snails. I get the news letter too. I feed my tilapia and koi land snails/slugs on a daily basis. They love to eat them. Despite what I have been told the fish will eat food that sinks to the bottom. I know because I regularly dive mt tanks to see what is on the bottom. I love free fish food like snails and slugs!!!!</p>
<p>Hey Paul, I know Tim and Susanne. I visit their farm on a regular basis. Their snail issue was with water snails in their troughs, not land snails. I get the news letter too. I feed my tilapia and koi land snails/slugs on a daily basis. They love to eat them. Despite what I have been told the fish will eat food that sinks to the bottom. I know because I regularly dive mt tanks to see what is on the bottom. I love free fish food like snails and slugs!!!!</p> Chris,
I suggest that you ask…tag:aquaponicgardening.ning.com,2012-05-15:4778851:Comment:3354752012-05-15T04:25:57.482ZPaul Smithhttps://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/profile/PaulSmith
<p>Chris,</p>
<p>I suggest that you ask the folks at Friendly Aquaponics that question. I seem to read where they have had some experience with snails in a system.</p>
<p>Here is a link to their latest newsletter. you can contact them from it. <a href="http://sz0001.wc.mail.comcast.net/zimbra/mail?app=mail#12">http://sz0001.wc.mail.comcast.net/zimbra/mail?app=mail#12</a></p>
<p>Paul.</p>
<p>Chris,</p>
<p>I suggest that you ask the folks at Friendly Aquaponics that question. I seem to read where they have had some experience with snails in a system.</p>
<p>Here is a link to their latest newsletter. you can contact them from it. <a href="http://sz0001.wc.mail.comcast.net/zimbra/mail?app=mail#12">http://sz0001.wc.mail.comcast.net/zimbra/mail?app=mail#12</a></p>
<p>Paul.</p> Hello, I am new to this site.…tag:aquaponicgardening.ning.com,2012-05-14:4778851:Comment:3349742012-05-14T15:55:19.437ZKyleTaiwanhttps://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/profile/KyleTaiwan
<p>Hello, I am new to this site. We are going to be designing aan aquaculture/farmland on some new land (we are still buying land) in southern Taiwan. For those that dont know about Taiwan, it has a huuge aquaculture market, but it, in my opinion, uses all teh wrong ideas and they simply want biggest amount of weight fo rbiggest profits...meaning lots of chemicals.</p>
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<p>We are doing things differently.</p>
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<p>anyway, my first question is, are snails (african land snails)…</p>
<p>Hello, I am new to this site. We are going to be designing aan aquaculture/farmland on some new land (we are still buying land) in southern Taiwan. For those that dont know about Taiwan, it has a huuge aquaculture market, but it, in my opinion, uses all teh wrong ideas and they simply want biggest amount of weight fo rbiggest profits...meaning lots of chemicals.</p>
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<p>We are doing things differently.</p>
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<p>anyway, my first question is, are snails (african land snails) safe to use if you are positive they are from a clean area? I know about fly larvae and worms etc, but i am specifically wanting to know about snail safety as i read htey can be hosts of some kind of lung disease passed on by rodents to people. Would stripping of shell, cooking well, drying and grinding into food be a possibility? </p>
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<p>We plant to produce about 3 animal crops, fruit, veg and mushrooms on the land.</p>
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<p>Thanks for your answers if anyone knows :)</p> fish poop grows moringa year…tag:aquaponicgardening.ning.com,2012-04-19:4778851:Comment:3227462012-04-19T17:09:35.780ZKMannahttps://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/profile/KManna
<p>fish poop grows moringa year around and fish eat crushed moringa leaves</p>
<p>build small screened in room/space with fake ficus trees and grow bsfl year around indoors and fish eat it and more poop</p>
<p>have brood sets so you can produce more fish as you eat the fish and feed it to the bsfl</p>
<p>leftover grrens and cow/rabbit poop get fed to worms and non gmo kitchen compost</p>
<p>rabbits eat greenhouse green</p>
<p>wood plus woodstove equals heat for house plus greenhouse plus heat…</p>
<p>fish poop grows moringa year around and fish eat crushed moringa leaves</p>
<p>build small screened in room/space with fake ficus trees and grow bsfl year around indoors and fish eat it and more poop</p>
<p>have brood sets so you can produce more fish as you eat the fish and feed it to the bsfl</p>
<p>leftover grrens and cow/rabbit poop get fed to worms and non gmo kitchen compost</p>
<p>rabbits eat greenhouse green</p>
<p>wood plus woodstove equals heat for house plus greenhouse plus heat water</p>
<p>sawdust from woodstove plus from fish you can make homemade fishmeal foro protein</p>
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<p></p> I once threw about a dozen ti…tag:aquaponicgardening.ning.com,2012-01-19:4778851:Comment:2796862012-01-19T14:08:54.123ZTCLynxhttps://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/profile/TCLynx
<p>I once threw about a dozen tilapia into a duckweed pond. If I fed them any commercial feed at all, the pond stayed covered in duckweed. But then I went away for a week and wasn't throwing them a small hand full of feed each day and I got home to find I had no more duckweed at all. I think it probably took them a day to get hungry enough to eat the duckweed and then probably 5 days to eat it all up.</p>
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<p>They definitely like the complete feeds better (full of tasty fish oils and…</p>
<p>I once threw about a dozen tilapia into a duckweed pond. If I fed them any commercial feed at all, the pond stayed covered in duckweed. But then I went away for a week and wasn't throwing them a small hand full of feed each day and I got home to find I had no more duckweed at all. I think it probably took them a day to get hungry enough to eat the duckweed and then probably 5 days to eat it all up.</p>
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<p>They definitely like the complete feeds better (full of tasty fish oils and things to make the fish like it.) I went and got more duckweed for that pond and again, if I was feeding them any commercial feed, they left the duckweed to cover the pond and again when I went out of town they were hungry enough to eat all the duckweed again.</p> I just put duckweed over the…tag:aquaponicgardening.ning.com,2012-01-19:4778851:Comment:2798532012-01-19T07:37:42.881ZRaychel A Watkinshttps://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/profile/RaychelAWatkins
<p>I just put duckweed over the top of my fry and thin it out so it doesn't get too thick. They learn to eat it. One day it starts to disappear. Try feeding them nothing else for the day They will eat the good stuff unless they have to look for something else. Mine eat lettuce, Black Soldier Fly larvae, bread, ung choy. now that is their morning food. </p>
<p>I just put duckweed over the top of my fry and thin it out so it doesn't get too thick. They learn to eat it. One day it starts to disappear. Try feeding them nothing else for the day They will eat the good stuff unless they have to look for something else. Mine eat lettuce, Black Soldier Fly larvae, bread, ung choy. now that is their morning food. </p> I've got tilipia and they won…tag:aquaponicgardening.ning.com,2012-01-19:4778851:Comment:2798512012-01-19T06:43:28.446ZGary Wonghttps://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/profile/GaryWong
<p>I've got tilipia and they won't eat duckweed. I feed them Tetramin (our guppy food), they love that but of course that will get expensive. I've got lots of duckweed cause they won't eat it. </p>
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<p>How do I get them on the duckweed? Do you think by feeding them the Tetramin guppy food it is making them "spoiled" so they won't eat duckweed? Should I stop the Tetramin and offer duckweed everyday until they take to it?</p>
<p>I've got tilipia and they won't eat duckweed. I feed them Tetramin (our guppy food), they love that but of course that will get expensive. I've got lots of duckweed cause they won't eat it. </p>
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<p>How do I get them on the duckweed? Do you think by feeding them the Tetramin guppy food it is making them "spoiled" so they won't eat duckweed? Should I stop the Tetramin and offer duckweed everyday until they take to it?</p> Hi PaulIn my tank I have+-12…tag:aquaponicgardening.ning.com,2012-01-18:4778851:Comment:2795582012-01-18T16:32:14.045ZFrancois Lemmerhttps://aquaponicgardening.ning.com/profile/FrancoisLemmer
<p>Hi Paul<br></br>In my tank I have+-12 tilapia + 15 Kio<br></br>In the duckweed trays I added another 15 30mm Kio...I found three dead...+-12 left<br></br>So in the system I have a total of +-39 fish of various sizes except for tilapia...all more or less same size<br></br>My tank holds 500 litres water...</p>
<p>with the design of this system the duckweed stays in the ducweed trays and almost nothing gets to the pump sump..not a problem</p>
<p>Worms in grow beds yes it works</p>
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<p>Hi Paul<br/>In my tank I have+-12 tilapia + 15 Kio<br/>In the duckweed trays I added another 15 30mm Kio...I found three dead...+-12 left<br/>So in the system I have a total of +-39 fish of various sizes except for tilapia...all more or less same size<br/>My tank holds 500 litres water...</p>
<p>with the design of this system the duckweed stays in the ducweed trays and almost nothing gets to the pump sump..not a problem</p>
<p>Worms in grow beds yes it works</p>
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<p><cite>Paul Smith said:</cite></p>
<blockquote cite="http://aquaponicscommunity.com/forum/topics/tilapia-food?commentId=4778851%3AComment%3A276836&xg_source=activity#4778851Comment276759"><div><div class="xg_user_generated"><p>Hi Francois,</p>
<p>I am sure you have indicated the answers to these questions in another thread.</p>
<p>How many fish? What size of tank? </p>
<p>How do you keep the duckweed out of your pumps and system?</p>
<p>Have you tried establishing worms in your grow beds if you use media?</p>
<p>I ask these questions as I am in the learning mode, trying to avoid some of the problems I have read</p>
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<p>Thanks,</p>
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