Tilapia Breeding
A place to exchange information on breeding tilapia. How to set up tilapia breeding colonies. How to sex fish for breeding colonies. What foods are best for breeding pairs and fingerlings.
Tilapia death question with photo
can anyone explain what might of went wrong here? This was a female tilapia which appeared pregnant. She start showing the bulging portion on her then died. any ideas on what went wrong.
Also does anyone have a good sexing method. I cant find anything online that looks like my fish. some have a small penis like thing and some does this make the fish a male? Im assuming no due to this fish that died having it and am positive it was a female due to her being full of eggs when I cut her open.
Kevin R.
here is a picture of one of my tilapia with red food coloring. I still cant tell the difference. Can anyone tell me if this is a male or female?
May 8, 2014
Judy Talley
I would say that is a male. the second white round area - which really isn't hi-lighted well by the food coloring - is the penis - which you can see sometimes when they are swimming as a small white pointy thing, kind of toothpick shape coming out of the abdomen in that area. At least that's how I'm sexing mine.
Kevin R. said:
Dec 12, 2014
Judy Talley
Just an FYI. When I first moved 6 tilapia from my grow tank to my breeding tank, a couple of them appeared to have a fungus and/or flukes - perhaps from the stress of moving them. I decided to go the cheap and easy route and salinate the entire 100 gallon tank. It worked. I used the formula on this site to determine the salt and went cheap and bought a 20 lb bag of pool salt from Home Depot - way less than $10. I think I did 2 1/2 lbs for my 100 gallon tank and used a food scale to measure.
http://www.greatlakestilapia.com/salt-treatment-for-tilapia.html
Dec 12, 2014