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    Re: Cannibalistic tilapia; Solution: Home made sorter

    You are right about Darwin...I knew him...he lived down the street from me....he was always spouting off stuff no one understood or agreed with. We even went to different schools together only his school had teachers and books and I didn't pay attention as now.

    Sorry about the mix up on the new and old hatch....but there has to be a space somewhere that you can set at least a 5 gal tank or something to give the new hatch a chance
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    Re: Cannibalistic tilapia; Solution: Home made sorter

    Go with 10 gallon tanks. They are just $10 each new. I drill them and plumb to a common sump and use platic screenwire for the overflow to keep them in. Each hatch goes into a separate tank. When you run out of tanks, you have all the fish you need. Once a fish is over 2" it can hold its own, so you can re-mix them.


    The advantage of keep them apart and from the same hatch is you can select for the fastest growing fish.
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    Re: Cannibalistic tilapia; Solution: Home made sorter

    Quote Originally Posted by badflash
    Go with 10 gallon tanks. They are just $10 each new. I drill them and plumb to a common sump and use platic screenwire for the overflow to keep them in. Each hatch goes into a separate tank. When you run out of tanks, you have all the fish you need. Once a fish is over 2" it can hold its own, so you can re-mix them.

    The advantage of keep them apart and from the same hatch is you can select for the fastest growing fish.
    That would be great but I'm space-challenged

    Quote Originally Posted by JCO
    ....but there has to be a space somewhere that you can set at least a 5 gal tank or something to give the new hatch a chance
    I promised the (new) wife I'd keep all the fishies in one room- my back office. There has to be room......hmmmmnnn

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    Just moved all the tanks last week, haven't had a chance to neaten things up, but until I go vertical, that's all the space I have!
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    Re: Cannibalistic tilapia; Solution: Home made sorter

    Go verticle! There is lots of room! The fry tanks can go above the big tank and share common filtration. Pump up & gravity drain back.
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    Re: Cannibalistic tilapia; Solution: Home made sorter

    Look at all that wall space
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    Re: Cannibalistic tilapia; Solution: Home made sor

    Hmmmnnn. . . . go vertical- OK Badflash, ! I did <g>;
    big breeder tank and tank top left share filtration, other tanks added as biofilter matures:
    Phil Spector had his "Wall of Sound", I've got my "Wall of Fish"!
    (now that I've got the fishies figured out, construction of the greenhouse to hold the aquaponics system should start next month I hope)
    Breeder tank, left center; young adult, top left; fry tank, top center, teen/fingerling tank, far right, pre-teen tank (mesh tank inside teen tank)
    275 tilapia in 126 cu. ft.! Funny thing is this setup actually works well for me.
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    Re: Cannibalistic tilapia; Solution: Home made sorter

    .....nice.
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    Re: Cannibalistic tilapia; Solution: Home made sorter

    Wow, nice! They use this same concept to sort the market-size fish out of ponds.

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