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    Re: Best Strain of Tilapia..?

    You can also put a bottom (AKA large flower pot) and hiding tubes (3-4" PVC pipes) in a cage with 1 male and 5 females. They will breed in the cage. When you get enough fry you can move the cage to another pool. You can also just leave them in the same pool and net out fingerlings when they get big enough to move to cages for grow-out. Green water helps with the fry survival. Juvies are cannibals.
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    Re: Best Strain of Tilapia..?

    Badflash,

    So if a person wanted to get a start of a good strain of Tilapia, would you be able to assist in that respect?

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    Re: Best Strain of Tilapia..?

    I can help, depending on where you live. Tilapia species are restricted in many states. As an example, in California you can only keep mossambica, and they require a permit.
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    Re: Best Strain of Tilapia..?

    I've been scouring the Internet for the past couple of hours, and I can't find anyone that sells fingerlings of Tilapia. If I do get into warm water fish, it will probably be Nile and/or Aruea Tilapia. I really don't think I want hybrid, however, if I did, I would probably look into the Chocolate that Mike Sipe has ....... according to his site, they would be the most meat for the buck. Most of the sites I found were either folks that want to sell breeders or farms that want to sell frozen fillets, neither of which will suit my purposes. Got any ideas or links to fish farms that sell fingerlings, preferably in small quantities?
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    Re: Best Strain of Tilapia..?

    I have a nice strain of niles that are not hybrids. If you buy you want fry, not fingerlings. Fry cost a load less to ship and will be fingerlings in about 3 weeks.

    Few people sell small quantities and they gear up for the major fish farmer local to them in the south.
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    Re: Best Strain of Tilapia..?

    Fry is fine, I'll PM you when I get set up enough to start some in a 10 Gallon, when they get older, I'll move them to a 50 gallon Rubbermaid so they can grow out .... I'll have to save up for a heater now, (I just traded away a heater, because I had no use for it).

    I'll need to educate myself concerning Tilapia, so I'll be scouring the Internet for that info Thanks
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    Re: Best Strain of Tilapia..?

    Have you looked here?

    http://diyaquaponics.com/fish.php#TILAPIA

    It's not the ultimate, but it's a start with all the basics. They are really just like any other aquarium fish.
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    Re: Best Strain of Tilapia..?

    Quote Originally Posted by JCO
    Have you looked here?
    They are really just like any other aquarium fish.
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