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Comment by Sheri Schmeckpeper on April 9, 2012 at 10:48pm

Hi, Nicolette! The first thing to do is to have fun! Watch the little ones grow before your eyes, because they grow fast!

You can do many things with your fry:

• Grow them out as part of your on-going food source.
• Share them with others new in aquaponics.
• Sell them.
• Donate them to schools for science classes.
• Or, use them for food for other things. Chickens, ducks, etc. This sounds bad, but in nature the majority of them end up this way. :)

Be sure you know the laws of your state regarding moving, selling, raising tilapia. Each state is different, and some are pretty restrictive.

Comment by Dave Lindstedt on April 6, 2012 at 4:46pm

Dave Story:  I have had some active breeding going on.  More by chance than by planning. I was down to 4 or 5 surviving fish in my 275 gal. polly tank.  I think only one was a male. I have systematicly been capturing the fry and transferring them to one of my aquariums. This started about a month ago. Some have now reached the fingerling stage.  Today I started to transfer some of those fingerlings back into my larger tanks.

Just constructed two new grow troughs. I'll be adding them to the system next week. And be constructing two more. Biggest thing needed now is for fish to grow out so I can expand my overall system.  Planted some sweet potatoes (not in my system)  Last year gopher turtles ate all my sweet potato plants.  I have now constructed a 6ft x 6ft  fenced "pen" to grow them in.

My paya are growing well, in my system..  I have 5 of them. Looks like 2 or three figs my one loane madjool date palm.  Wating on some of 25 others to germinate.  Still waiting for macadamia to germinate.  My tomatoes blosoms are starting to produce tomatoes.  My egg plants and green bell peper should start producing blossoms by the end of the month.  Planted seeds for 33 wax beans today.  Lettuce has started to return and I have 6 strawberry plants that produced about as many strawberries. I will look to propagate more with a view to next year.  Jan 3rd frezze set me back a good 2 months. Wiping out just about everything.

Comment by Nicolette Moore on April 6, 2012 at 6:54am

Hello fellow breeders! I am relatively new to this forum but excited to meet so many like minded friends. My husband and I have been breeding tilapia now for about a month and we have hundreds of babies, we don't know what to do with them all!!! I look forward to gaining knowledge from all of you and hopefully establishing relationships. Happy breeding!

Comment by Dave & Yvonne Story on April 5, 2012 at 9:41pm

Dave,

Just thinking of you today. I did not have my camera here, but I will send you some pictures, tomorrow

Your comment below:

I over feed..

I test the water for ammonia at least weekly

I like 10 gals per adult fish .. room to grow and eat..

I believe I have some that more than 16" at 10 mos of age

 

Comment by Dave Lindstedt on April 5, 2012 at 9:33pm

Fish kill.. as some of you know I suffered a major fish kill last November loosing more than 100 6 month old fish.  Biggest single killer is ammonia! It builds slowly and then exploads.  First seperate your fish give them plenty of room.  They say 5 gallons of water per fish but I would rather plan 10 gallons per mature fish.  Now remenber these guys are growing so the fish density at 4 month old may be OK, but at 6 month you will find these same fish ovver crowded.   Also with multiple tankage a fish kill in one tank will not affect fish in another tank. If you start having fish die in a tank, CHANGE THE WATER, start a syphon and pull as much water as possible out of that tank and repace it with fresh water.  Excess feeding will cause a build up of uneaton food on the bottom of the tank and bang it will ferment and cause an ammonia bloom.

Another thing is even at 6 months old there may be some breeding going on.  So you may think you only have 40 fish in a tank but find out you have 75, do to undetected breeding.

Hope this helps. 

Comment by Sheri Schmeckpeper on April 4, 2012 at 1:38pm

The one with a pink nose is probably one trying to escape.

More often than not, from what I've seen, the evil doer will be one of the biggest fish. If you have a separate aquarium, you can try pulling out the 5 biggest fish, then observe.

If things calm down in the main tank, watch the 5 in the other tank and see who becomes the most dominant. That will probably be your culprit.

If things don't calm down in the main tank, pull the next 5 largest. I doubt you'd have to go a second round, though.

Comment by TCLynx on April 4, 2012 at 8:49am

Michael,

observation is the only real way to figure out who the bully is and that will be difficult if your water is cloudy and you can't watch them easily.

Comment by Dave & Yvonne Story on April 4, 2012 at 8:44am

Michael

It is going to be the fish that is the bully. Pull it out and the next in line will fill the void but not as much of a bully, things will calm down. Will that solve your problem?

Comment by Michael Welber on April 4, 2012 at 8:38am

How do I figure out which one it is? The one with the pink nose? 

Comment by SW on April 4, 2012 at 8:20am

Michael,
I agree with everything that Sheri has said.  I remember I had one nasty female that was disrupting the entire colony, a big bully.  Once she was "removed" so was the problem.

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