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Comment by Dave & Yvonne Story on March 11, 2012 at 10:37am

LOL

Randall,

I am having the same problems.. meaning anyone who watches their fish have the same problem. I took a picture and asked my fish breeder about this "french kissing."

I am trying to breed in two tanks...

As you can see form the term french kissing, I do not know the correct terms to use. I don't want to offend anyone.. BUT, I for me this is important stuff and I want to understand.

My male in tank A displays the black colors and his penis hangs down, when I think he feels a need to fertilize eggs, but the ladies are not willing to lay eggs, yet. He cleaned the bottom of the tank, built a nest.

My male in Tank B does not display the colors, but he is dominant in the tank.. currently he is keeping one female down on the bottom as if to lay eggs. He did not build a nest.

I keep my video recorder ready.

I have removed fish from the aquariums because of their agressive nature. I want the females to have little stress.

 Currently, I have 8 tanks, 4 with grow-beds, 4 in the storage room in the house 2 of which are for breeding (I hope) 2 are for seperation after spawning.

In this photo you can see the one male (A tank) starting to get his black colors.

Comment by Dave & Yvonne Story on March 11, 2012 at 7:15am

cool setup. Great info and Thank you for sharing. I should elevate my fish tanks

Comment by David Owens on March 11, 2012 at 5:11am

I use two 400 watt heaters in a 175gallon tank inside my garage here in Michigan during the cold winter months. I wrapped the tank in 2" insulation that I was using for floats in my raceways during the summer and elevated it off of the cold concrete floor as well. Most of the time I only have 1 heater on and the tank stays around 70 degrees F most of the time. When the temperature outside dips below zero I plug in two and the fish stay warm and happy. Heaters were inexpensive and energy costs don't seem to be too bad. 

Comment by Dave & Yvonne Story on March 10, 2012 at 8:11pm

Randall

thank you for sharing.

I use a 400 watt heater per 100 gallons of tank water. and I use a 300 watt heater to tell me the fish tank water temperature. My heaters are not on all of the time and I may be a bit of an over kill. My largest tank is only 300 gallons. If I had a pool, I might use a pool heater with insulation on the top and sides. just a thought

Please keep up the great sharing..

thank you

Dave

Comment by Lawrence D. Wybrant on March 9, 2012 at 12:54pm

Sheri, what kind of heaters do you all use, i have a 2500 gallon pool given to me and will build my aquatics set up soon.  I was wondering if they would survive in a plastic pool in a barn over the winter with heaters.  Here in Ok it may be 80 at Christmas or 30 you never know.

Comment by Larry Reinhardt on March 9, 2012 at 12:36pm

The tilapia here in central Florida think winter is over, in a near by canal there are thousands of breeding nest. The fishermen are catching them using a bare hook that they drag across the nest, according to them they have been doing this for years. So I drained my big FT down to 10 inches and netted some of mine that have been out all winter and sure enough some of the males are in breeding colors. If they know what they're doing then it should be smooth sailing from here on out - time will tell.

Comment by Dave & Yvonne Story on March 2, 2012 at 9:20am

Sheri gave you great info. here i Arizona, we have people experimenting on having there fish tanks in the ground. Also, you might want to consider cat fish or some fish that can tolerate the cold better than the African Cichlids (tilapia). 

Comment by Sheri Schmeckpeper on March 2, 2012 at 8:09am

Yay, Dave L! I'll bet you have a lot more scooting around in there, too.

Comment by Sheri Schmeckpeper on March 2, 2012 at 8:08am

Lawrence, tilapia handle a 50 - 95+ degree range, give or take a few degrees depending on the breed. They slow growth below 77 degrees and prefer around 85 degrees for breeding & best growth. You'd need heaters for the water, but how much heating depends on how cold it gets. Even here in the AZ desert our winters are too cold for them, particularly at night, so we use heaters.

Comment by Lawrence D. Wybrant on March 2, 2012 at 7:49am

I wan to start a aquaponic tank and a grow bed raft, however i am in oklahoma.  The summers hare hot bu the winters are cold.  Can i raise talipia here and how warm would the water have top be in a tank in my barn with grow lights

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