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Aquaponists who are growing their plants with tilapia
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Lists of Places to Buy Tilapia
Mail Order in the U.S.
The Aquaponic Source - http://theaquaponicsource.com/tilapia.php
Colorado
The Aquaponic Source - http://theaquaponicsource.com/tilapia.php - pickup available in Boulder, CO
California
http://www.bluebeyondfisheries.com/
http://www.imperialcatfish.com/
http://www.fbifarms.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&...
This last one is also interesting in the fact that they raise Jatropa plants which are somewhat aquaponically raised. These plants make a high grade of bio diesel. In fact they claim to get 830+ gallons of biofuel per acre of land.
This last link will send you Tilapia as long as you can prove your State will allow them.
http://jimsfish.webs.com/bluetilapia.htm
It is a list of approved Fish suppliers in California by County
http://www.nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx?DocumentID=3265
Jeff Givan
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I purchased my tillapia fingerlings from edgar sanchez at unlocksmith @tilapiafarmingathome.com
he sells breders and mixed sex fingerlings, nice guy his website is tilapia farming at home. He also offers a 75% discont on breeders if you are the first person to find out the rules for bring his type of tilapia into your state
I also purchased Blue Tilapia fingerlings from Rex his email is rrains@hotmail .com anouther nice guy usually has a ad on ebay.
In either case they were shipped via mail over several states I only lost one baby
I have breeders in the basment hopefully I will be having some for slae in the next couple of months pure strian blue and alsoT. hornorum X mossambica cross. This cross acording to what I have read shoud produce 98% male. This would be a a on a small scale.
Before you get any fish make sure you can have them where you live.
The U.S may be the home of the free but no when it comes to keeping tilapia.
Earl
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Florida,
Many people catch blue tilapia in ponds and canals as far as a free source. If you would like to buy them, only place I know of without an aquaculture permit here is Morning Star Fishermen.
They can sell Blue Tilapia but they don't ship so you have to go visit, bring an ice chest or other tank and a bubbler for the drive. They were very nice and showed me how to check gender of the fish (once they are big enough.) I have never been to one of their classes or workshops though.
TCLynx
Discussion Forum
Can I eat My Tilapia
Started by Jeff S. Last reply by Dr. George B. Brooks, Jr. Mar 16, 2016. 3 Replies 0 Likes
I had a power outage and lost 47 lbs of Tilapia to lack of oxygen. Are they still edible? If so how do I store them while waiting to fillet them? Seems like all the big ones died.Continue
PURE STRAIN TILAPIA IN NORTHWEST WASHINGTON
Started by Phil Slaton. Last reply by Bruce Fulton Jan 27, 2015. 3 Replies 1 Like
Huck’s Fishing Hole is a Tilapia fish breeder and hatchery. We are one of the very few Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife licensed/registered Aqua Farms authorized to breed, hatch,…Continue
Tilapia dying after PH spike
Started by David Langham. Last reply by David Langham Jan 12, 2015. 5 Replies 0 Likes
I am also a Aquaponics newbie. I read Sylvia's book and dove in last October. Everything was great until a couple weeks ago when I expanded my system. I added a 3'x5' DWT to my system which is a…Continue
Tilapia dying in my tank!!
Started by Nate. Last reply by Phil Slaton Nov 22, 2014. 6 Replies 0 Likes
Hi, I'll give the whole rundown, and I'd love it if anyone can help me figure out what the problem with my system is..I am very new to aquaponics and I've set up a new system after reading through…Continue
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Comment by Kellen Weissenbach on April 16, 2011 at 12:59am
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Hi Shawn,
I know your post regarding identification of the tilapia you caught is quite old, but it doesn't look like anyone answered, so I thought I'd go ahead and do so.
It is a wild color Mozambique Tilapia (Oreochromis mossambicus) or at least a hybrid with extremely strong Mozambique influence. It also looks like a male (I'm about 99% sure). Mozambiques are fairly easy to sex by appearance and extremely easy to breed. They don't tend to grow quite as fast as Niles (Oreochromis niloticus) or Blues (Oreochromis aureus), but unlike the two latter species, Mozambique males and females tend to grow at much more uniform rates... Which can be a potential advantage depending on growout strategies.
We grow a very high quality Mozambique tilapia strain called Hawaiian Golds, and they are available via special order through Sylvia's shop. They are beautiful fish and are very fast growers (the fastest growing mozambique strain we have ever worked with).
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Comment by TCLynx on December 23, 2010 at 3:05pm
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to find where best to get the Aquamax locally, you can go to the purina Mills web site and do a search for purina dealers near you. It will usually give you a list of feed stores and the distance from the zip code you used for the search. Then you can phone up the feed stores and ask if they would be willing to have a bag of aquamax (which ever type you want) put on the next delivery for you and what the price would be (seems to fluctuate a bit in price in my experience.) Only exception here I've run into is Tractor supply won't special order anything since they deal with central warehousing and you don't want fish food that has been sitting for months in a warehouse.
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Comment by Sylvia Bernstein on December 23, 2010 at 2:59pm
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Paul, unless you really love Purina products I'd like to suggest that you also check out our tilapia feed. It is a high quality, small batch feed made by community member Kellen Weissenbach (you can shoot him questions if you have any).
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Comment by Paul Ellinghuysen on December 23, 2010 at 2:52pm
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David ,thanks for your input also. Paul
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TC, what store carries aquamax? Thanks for your on going support.
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Mine started breeding like mad outside in May in my duckweed tank. No special lighting and as long as I was throwing in a small hand full of aquamax 4000 pellets each day the cover of duckweed stayed pretty complete so I'm certain it doesn't require intense sun light as that duckweed tank not only had the cover of duckweed but also 70% shade cloth over it to keep leaves out. I think it is simply longer days and warm water that triggers the breeding and not the light intensity specifically.
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Comment by David Hart on December 23, 2010 at 10:34am
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Hi Paul, when my breeders were small (just big enough to breed) they did well in my 55 gal set up.
As they became bigger, they stopped producing, even though the male was putting on the moves and getting the females to go to his bachelor pad.
Do you have a big clay pot in there for the males 'pad' ?
At another forum, one of the guys that has been raising fish for years, said he thought that the problem may be that they were too crowded...that some kind of hormone was building up in the water, preventing them from breeding more. He suggested drastic water changes...like 50% everyday for weeks. I didn't bother, since the ones outside, were breeding.
I have heard that at least 12 hours, or better, 16 hours of light was best for breeding.
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How big with the tanks.How much light?Hrs. intensity? What brand of food?
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I recommend 86 F water for breeding but I had better luck in really big tanks
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Im doing my best to get atalipia colony going in my 50 gal aquirium and with six of them in their all they do is get bigger.Is their a food that youve used or the water temp. that needs to be at? Paul
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