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Comment by Jon Parr on February 26, 2012 at 6:36pm

Dave, if you have plenty of cover and hiding spots, many fry will survive. Even in a bare tank with no hiding spots, tilapia will overpopulate. If you're not seeing your fry, chances are that some of them have been eaten, and the others have learned to hide better. Tilapia are oportunist feeders, they will eat the best, easiest food, including a careless baby tilapia.

Comment by TCLynx on February 26, 2012 at 6:07pm

I had lots of fry survive in a tank with 12 or so adults that had netting protecting it from other creatures that can eat fry.  The adult tilapia don't tend to eat the fry but older fry/fingerlings do tend to eat just about anything they can including slightly smaller siblings.

Comment by Lonnie Kirkman on February 26, 2012 at 6:05pm

I move the female out because if you move the male and the other female sI found it take them lomger to breed again but I have aquariums for my beeders to. I am posting more pict. on my page

Comment by Dave Lindstedt on February 26, 2012 at 5:14pm

For the past two days I haven't seen any trace of my new born fish. I was lead to believe tilapia would not eat the fry.  Now I am begining to have my doubts.  But certainly these fish sucessfully reproduce in the wild. So the bigger question becomes, what is the survival rate for the fry?  if they are left to their own devices vs seperating them.

Comment by Dave & Yvonne Story on February 26, 2012 at 5:02pm

natural selection. 

I do have a tank, not an aquarium, in my greenhouse with a small mix of male and females. this is a test tank, I will compare it to what I have in my store room in the house (see below). This is all new to me, but I am trying to learn from the best. I am setup to video tape the process.

Comment by Dave & Yvonne Story on February 26, 2012 at 4:56pm

You should have several replies to this question.

Anyway, my understanding is.. tilapia will eat anything, even if they are not hungry.

Separation is to insure you keep your little ones swimming.

My plan is..

After the eggs are fertilized and the female picks up the eggs, the other fish in the aquarium will be removed to another aquarium, less stress on the mother and the frys as they start swimming about.

Comment by Dave Lindstedt on February 26, 2012 at 4:24pm

OK, question... is there any major advantage in seperating your female and male "breeders" from the rest of your fish over just letting breeding occur naturaly in your main fish tank?

Comment by Dave Lindstedt on February 25, 2012 at 8:26pm

Today I did not see any of my little new fish.  Now my tank is 3 ft deep, so they may be hiding, But I am concerned something happened to them.  I refilled my 40 gallon aquarium and if I manage to locate them I plan to move them to the aquarium. Has anyone experienced survial problem with the new born?

Comment by TCLynx on February 23, 2012 at 4:05pm

Yea when they get going it's hard to slow them down.  However, we found that the pumpkin seed size fry make really great chicken snacks.

Comment by Lonnie Kirkman on February 23, 2012 at 8:03am

I have over 1000 fry and fingerlings w/ 1 breeding group one male 3 female my large female I get 200 to 300 fry each time I am runnig out of room Im going to have to seperate my breeders soon I found 55 gal tank isnt I deal for 1 male and  5 females as some suggest when they get big I have a 120 gal that works well 4  55gal for more breeders when I get them already have 4 very nice males have 6  20ga for female to release there fry and 4 65gal w fingerlings and 8 375gal totes w fish way to many lol when they start breeding wow thats all they dol

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