For me raising tilapia in southern CA its a question of how to make them stop spawning lol. I no longer have a separate breeding tank. I just watch out for little fry in the grow out tanks and scoop them out, every month or so I have a new batch to grow.
Thanks so much for this info, thinking about getting started and this was really explained well where a person like me who knows nothing about it can understand. Shopping for the stuff here to begin.
My Wife has a field in Buriram Thailand, We are going to build a house there. I want to raise fish , fingerlings to sell to farmers, mature fish for the Saturday market. Thank you for the very informative video. 😊
Do you know a store where we can buy hatching jar or incubator specifically for Tilapia? I have incubator but they have bigger hole and most of the times the eggs are suck out from the jar. Let meknow if you have idea. I tried multiple times but have not been successful at all. Tried artificial and natural way
Hello, thank you for your video, it is amazing learning how to reproduce the tilapia.Where did you buy the fish hatching jar? if you don't mind to provide me with the info.
Thank for this important video for us and i think it has inspired most of us. However, is this possible for many spawns like 40.000 spawns ? I am improving my fish farming business, but facing challenges on how I can produce as many spawns as possible. What do I need more?
in the video 3 minutes and 23 seconds you have said that the temperature best for tilapia spawning is 80 so that is in degree Celsius or degree Fahrenheit?
Depends on their body weight, but you can usually get most of the eggs to hatch with proper care. biggest issues I've had are inadequate circulation in the jar
I think that Tilapia society is like human society, if there are more males than females, they will be aggressive, but if there are more females, we will live in peace 😁😁 _Thanks for the information about tilapia fish ❤🙏
Sir i have a question, if i have 6 tilapia. How many plants it can sustain in the aquaponic? I am planting greeneyes lettuce. Im planing to build a 135 slot of hydroponics. Or should i go for (solution base) hydroponic? Thank you
I found the most important factor for me was pH. They likle a pH of 8.0 for spawning. I needed to up my pH so I used crushed coral. I have 2 pregnant females finally!
@@iddymsangi8144 No, I was doing it as an experiement in Canada. I don't recommend it as the fish didn't grow to full size over the summer. Water was too cold and expensive to heat
in my country tilapia farming is very popular,a big problem while raising tilapia is in their growth stage they would breed with on another,causing many females to be stunted so people sometimes gave testosterones to the larvas of the fish until they are a fingerling to make all of them males,they grow faster and they won't breed.usually tilapia offspring that are made during the raising of tilapia is ignored or even thrown away since they are of bad quality and wont grow well. generally if we want to breed tilapia we need to raise them for a year and pick tilapias that are 1 to 2.5 kgs in size,they yield offspring that grows well and won't be dwarves.my country has government certified tilapia hatcheries and research labs.in those research labs they selectively breed tilapia and come up with newer breeds of tilapia.in hatcheries what they do is they put good quality tilapia in giant mud ponds,they feed them high protein pellets once they bred they let the females raise the tilapia babies until they are fingerling. they scoops up the fingerlings and sell it to fish raisers
If the female has eggs in her mouth, she will stop eating; So the best way to check the female is whene you give food (you don't need to fellow the fish all the time) if you have more then six fish or you have a big tank that will be hard to find. Thanks for sharing your experience.
There has to be an easier way to identify the females. If you are growing them in a large outdoor pond, you can't expect to grab fish one at a time and put die on them.
are you able to tell which is male and female without touching them ? example, i'm able to tell its a male when its a declares this side of the tank is theirs.. for other species of fish you can tell its a female by seeing how fat their belly is cause it has lots of eggs... i'm not sure about female tilapia..
Far easier to go by breeding behaviors. According to the biologists w/ Lakeway Tilapia, this cannot be performed without special equipment as the duct is too small to see otherwise - the whole food coloring thing, I tried it when I was a noob. One of the easiest fish to breed ever. With blue tilapia the males tend to turn more white while displaying and the females tend to put on stripes, while the other females tend to darken from the abuse of the process. I know this from a lot of experience and observation. I can't speak on any other species outside the blues. The only time I ever ran into a problem was with an alpha female. But, that's an easy fix. Once a fish is holding, you know it's a female. I'll move them one at a time to a breeding colony to make sure and then move the breeding male last to get any other brood stock or competing fish out of the tank. Learning to ID fish that look mostly identical is a bit of a trick. For me the hard part isn't getting fry, it's growing them all out to 8"+, some 14"+, the amount of work that goes into it with my conditions is ridiculous, I opted to keep my breeder at low temps until just before spring and invested in ice fishing equipment this year... power costs are going up and heating ponds in Wisconsin winters is too power extensive. Edit: 2 females to 1 male is cruel. You want at least 4 or 5, ideally 6 females as the abuse is extensive, if you put 2 females in with an aggressive breeding male he will kill them in a couple of days or less. Bad advice. I wouldn't use less than 5 females and you have to give them a place to hide for breaks between "rough and mostly unwanted foreplay." It's also a horrible idea to put two breeding males in one tank, you want singular breeding colonies with specific fish selected for their traits, but, more importantly, they will kill each other! The tank does not look good. I'd never represent myself in aquaculture next to a tank like that - this video is packed with noob misinfo.
@@NewAgrarian Sounds like you've had very passive males which is not desired in terms of their brood stock output. Been doing this for years as well. You = noob after 8 years.
Very interesting video. I really enjoyed how you explained the information. Easy and fun to watch 👍
For me raising tilapia in southern CA its a question of how to make them stop spawning lol. I no longer have a separate breeding tank. I just watch out for little fry in the grow out tanks and scoop them out, every month or so I have a new batch to grow.
Haha I hear that.. prob separate them by gender which I know is time consuming … or lower the temp
Gender reversal add male hormone into their feed they'll stop breeding
Wow. I could have those. I have hard time spawning. Can you give some tips
Tap in with me I'm working on a project with tilapia
I'm in southern CA trying to start a large system, you should help me out! $
Finally found what I'm looking for. Thank you for the info.
Of course
Thanks so much for this info, thinking about getting started and this was really explained well where a person like me who knows nothing about it can understand. Shopping for the stuff here to begin.
Dude, you make great videos. Very interesting and tons of info. Thanks
Thank you
Useful vdo
Good information. Thanks
Thanks for a wonderful video man but I am new to this, what is a hatching jar? Do you have a video of this?
No, you don’t need it. Just another option
My Wife has a field in Buriram Thailand, We are going to build a house there. I want to raise fish , fingerlings to sell to farmers, mature fish for the Saturday market. Thank you for the very informative video. 😊
Good luck
I like the video great idea very helpful thanks a lot
Of course
❤❤❤ I am interested Fish Farm...soon I start with aquaculture....it helped me lots
What chemical are you using when transporting fingerlings or shooters for stress prevention
Nothing. Not for tilapia at least. They are beasts
Good day sir, please what stuff do you have in the water boiling
Do you know a store where we can buy hatching jar or incubator specifically for Tilapia? I have incubator but they have bigger hole and most of the times the eggs are suck out from the jar. Let meknow if you have idea. I tried multiple times but have not been successful at all. Tried artificial and natural way
Hello, thank you for your video, it is amazing learning how to reproduce the tilapia.Where did you buy the fish hatching jar? if you don't mind to provide me with the info.
Nice video 📹 Thanks 😀
thanks a lot for posting!
How big do they need to be before breeding?
Great tutorial! thanks!
Good explanation now its look easy
Thank for this important video for us and i think it has inspired most of us. However, is this possible for many spawns like 40.000 spawns ? I am improving my fish farming business, but facing challenges on how I can produce as many spawns as possible.
What do I need more?
Do you provide hand out for the whole process
Would I be able to use plants instead of a filter if I kept them in there for longer?
You’d have to set up a separate container for the plants, tilapia will eat the plant roots
After mating in the 80 degree tank do you put them back in regular temperature water ?
The adults? Yes. Regular temp is in the 70s
Hi I just want to ask if do you have an idea How did you know between the native ang giant tilapia fingerlings.
thanks for your information.
can tilapia eggs grow up with other like catfish eggs
You mean 2 species of eggs together?
Hi! What food safe dechlorinator do you use?
Sunlight and aeration for a few days will get rid of it
Raising tilapias at the moment.
Is there an age at which they stop spawning?
Good question.. I’m not sure because I usually harvest them around 2 years
@@NewAgrarian my ones are about to hit 2 years soon. But they beat each other so much i had to put a divider… not sure how i will get them to breed
Hey can I ask if we need to feed them in their breeding tank? Or let them breed no need to feed?
Feed until the female has eggs
Hi God bless thank you i got idea from your video.
How do you tolerate tilapia to be come farming
Great video..... do you thing something like a 50 gallon stock tank would work for breeding?
Yes it would
The Sudan 78 strain of tilapia
Cool! Thanks!
great video
How do you dispose the solid waste thats taken from the filter? Does it smelly like the waste of pig or chicken?
Till it into raised beds
in the video 3 minutes and 23 seconds you have said that the temperature best for tilapia spawning is 80 so that is in degree Celsius or degree Fahrenheit?
It's Celsius, just make sure you salt the water and throw some herbs in there or it'll taste bad.
Farenheit
how many eggs will they lay and how many of them will hatch to become actual fish??
Depends on their body weight, but you can usually get most of the eggs to hatch with proper care. biggest issues I've had are inadequate circulation in the jar
I’ve heard that we can identify the sex of tilapia by the color of their tail fin (male has pink/redish tail fin), is that correct sir?
Ehh.. I wouldn’t rely on it but it’s possible
V informative
Make it look easy. Thank you
How make that jar for hatching?
Can you order fish or where do you get them from
Can you breed Tilapia year round.
Yes
Starting my "shtf" tank...How do you keep from spawning brother and sisters?
I bring some new fish in each year to eliminate that
I want to breed Barramundi? Do you have any experience with that?
Next year
@@NewAgrarian okay thanks
Nice👍👍
Does this system work with catfish
No it doesn’t
I have tilapia some of them are breeding however they are still young about 10cm, from my understanding those are breeding they are males?
I am not sure what you mean
I think that Tilapia society is like human society, if there are more males than females, they will be aggressive, but if there are more females, we will live in peace 😁😁
_Thanks for the information about tilapia fish ❤🙏
Sir i have a question, if i have 6 tilapia. How many plants it can sustain in the aquaponic? I am planting greeneyes lettuce.
Im planing to build a 135 slot of hydroponics. Or should i go for (solution base) hydroponic?
Thank you
6 fish would not sustain much, maybe a 2-4 square foot area. I would go with solution based for 135 plants
How much is the food monthly.
It’s relatively inexpensive. I buy 40 lb bags. Depends on your scale as well.
Tnx 4 d info
Can they survive without separating in pond
Separating the mother from offspring? Eh.. I’d say it’s possible but unlikely
Showing the male would be a helpful comparison.
I found the most important factor for me was pH. They likle a pH of 8.0 for spawning. I needed to up my pH so I used crushed coral. I have 2 pregnant females finally!
Pregnant😁😁really??
@@iddymsangi8144 Yeah! Well they were mouth brooding and it was a success! SOOOO many babies
@@djjoel1 ooh i got you bro! Are you doing this commercially???
@@iddymsangi8144 No, I was doing it as an experiement in Canada. I don't recommend it as the fish didn't grow to full size over the summer. Water was too cold and expensive to heat
@@djjoel1 try catfish, or whatever fish is native to your area.
Do you still feed the female while she has eggs in her mouth?
No, typically they’re not interested
@@NewAgrarian what do u feed tilapia fingerlings?
@@iCollect_Official same food as adults, just grind up into a powder
Does all tilapia spawn like this ??
In the genus oreochromis yes
what if all my fish is monosex
in my country tilapia farming is very popular,a big problem while raising tilapia is in their growth stage they would breed with on another,causing many females to be stunted so people sometimes gave testosterones to the larvas of the fish until they are a fingerling to make all of them males,they grow faster and they won't breed.usually tilapia offspring that are made during the raising of tilapia is ignored or even thrown away since they are of bad quality and wont grow well. generally if we want to breed tilapia we need to raise them for a year and pick tilapias that are 1 to 2.5 kgs in size,they yield offspring that grows well and won't be dwarves.my country has government certified tilapia hatcheries and research labs.in those research labs they selectively breed tilapia and come up with newer breeds of tilapia.in hatcheries what they do is they put good quality tilapia in giant mud ponds,they feed them high protein pellets once they bred they let the females raise the tilapia babies until they are fingerling. they scoops up the fingerlings and sell it to fish raisers
What's the point of the hatching jar as opposed to just leaving the eggs in the aquarium to hatch?
They will get moldy if they do not circulate
Thanks!
female have minus sign is it?
Yes
If the female has eggs in her mouth, she will stop eating; So the best way to check the female is whene you give food (you don't need to fellow the fish all the time) if you have more then six fish or you have a big tank that will be hard to find.
Thanks for sharing your experience.
There has to be an easier way to identify the females. If you are growing them in a large outdoor pond, you can't expect to grab fish one at a time and put die on them.
does the fish eat 2weeks babes
are you able to tell which is male and female without touching them ? example, i'm able to tell its a male when its a declares this side of the tank is theirs.. for other species of fish you can tell its a female by seeing how fat their belly is cause it has lots of eggs... i'm not sure about female tilapia..
Sometimes yes, females with have rounder nose and males will have bigger lips and a pointy snout
clean your fish tank brother
🎣
👍
Pretty evil
80 degres temperature do you want to make a soup of tilapia
Yes, you probably shouldnt try what I suggest
Far easier to go by breeding behaviors.
According to the biologists w/ Lakeway Tilapia, this cannot be performed without special equipment as the duct is too small to see otherwise - the whole food coloring thing, I tried it when I was a noob.
One of the easiest fish to breed ever. With blue tilapia the males tend to turn more white while displaying and the females tend to put on stripes, while the other females tend to darken from the abuse of the process. I know this from a lot of experience and observation. I can't speak on any other species outside the blues.
The only time I ever ran into a problem was with an alpha female. But, that's an easy fix.
Once a fish is holding, you know it's a female. I'll move them one at a time to a breeding colony to make sure and then move the breeding male last to get any other brood stock or competing fish out of the tank. Learning to ID fish that look mostly identical is a bit of a trick.
For me the hard part isn't getting fry, it's growing them all out to 8"+, some 14"+, the amount of work that goes into it with my conditions is ridiculous, I opted to keep my breeder at low temps until just before spring and invested in ice fishing equipment this year... power costs are going up and heating ponds in Wisconsin winters is too power extensive.
Edit: 2 females to 1 male is cruel. You want at least 4 or 5, ideally 6 females as the abuse is extensive, if you put 2 females in with an aggressive breeding male he will kill them in a couple of days or less. Bad advice. I wouldn't use less than 5 females and you have to give them a place to hide for breaks between "rough and mostly unwanted foreplay."
It's also a horrible idea to put two breeding males in one tank, you want singular breeding colonies with specific fish selected for their traits, but, more importantly, they will kill each other!
The tank does not look good. I'd never represent myself in aquaculture next to a tank like that - this video is packed with noob misinfo.
You should spend less time typing and more time filming your expertise 👍🏼
Also, never had a male fish kill a female fish in a breeding tank in 8 years using these ratios but hey, noob luck 🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼
@@NewAgrarian I'm a writer.
@@NewAgrarian Sounds like you've had very passive males which is not desired in terms of their brood stock output.
Been doing this for years as well.
You = noob after 8 years.
@@NewAgrarian Spend more time reading and cleaning your tanks!
Tilapia are a nasty, nasty fish. People grow them because all the good fish are in short-supply, and are hard to grow. For a reason. Blech.
U r talking toomuch rather showing the process
Please reply .The temperature is 80 degree Fahrenheit or celcius
Fahrenheit