Tilapia Farming At Home - Water Changes
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- Опубліковано 20 вер 2013
- How I do the water changes in my 600 gallon system.
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I really liked your video...I like your setup...it helped me out tremendously
Sebastian Herzog Thanks Sebastian, Water changes are a little more time consuming in the larger system but I do the water changes basically the same....Greg
I've been doing research for the last year...I'm saving my money to start a tilapia farm....I feel in live with this idea of farming fish...I feel very passionate about it..thanks
Sebastian Herzog Well GOOD LUCK! If I can help, just let me know......it's a lot of work, but worth every minute of the time.
Great job I need a little more information on your first filter on your solids filter the first one in line can you tell me what is in that Barrel itself I know it's your Inlet pipe and your swirl fit fitting but do you have anything else in there like filter material thanks for the video keep up the good work great job
very nice
Awesome setup. How much gallons does each tank with the fish hold and how much fish in each and what size can u grow them to?
very good sir
Buenas, me gustaría, dentro de lo posible, que cuando limpies los estanques y filtros que haga un video de ellos, para ver su estructura por dentro., bolivar sanchez desde republica dominicana
Hi good day... How many fry of tilapya can put to your set up
Hello. How do you increase or maintain the oxygen levels?
Hi. I'm Michael Antwi-Boasiako. I would like to know how you setup your system and the required equipment. Books references will also help a lot. And I'm from Ghana
New here looking to start my own system any information you like to share for beginners and like to talk about prices and what breed
Can i get information on size pump used?
How often do you change the water?
what is the height of the basin and how much of the number of species in each basin
Nice sirculation
Hi Greg! In your four tote system, does the two 55-gallon barrel filters maintain ammonia and nitrite levels? Do you have to do a weekly water change?
+Cyril Roberts Hey Cyril, the filter system takes care of ammonia and nitrites, however the only way for me to remove nitrates that are produced is to do water changes....i change out about 200 gallons every two or three weeks to keep nitrate levels acceptable. The total system volume is 1100 gallons.
+Mineral Springs Tilapia
Thanks Greg!
What happens if there’s too much nitrates? Have u considered attaching vegetables (Aquaponics) to use the nitrates? Instead of changing the water all the time
Hi will you please help me how to produce all male tilapia
am wondering how you keep the small fingerlings from getting sucked up when you flush the big square tank (3:07) ?
Do you have a problem with fingerling attacking each other
hi Greg. how much damage would I cause if I only circulate the water for about 10 hours a day? Electricity is not stable in my part of the world so I'm thinking of getting a solar panel to run the pump for as long as it can during the day.
I'm planning a pretty big, but inexpensive system because some of the materials are available to me for free. I'm considering tilapia or catfish in six 1,000 gallon tanks.
Hey Gbengoose, not moving the water 24 hours a day may not be a huge issue, but the water will get dirty very quickly, but you must run air into the tank 24/7. If the fish go without air in the water, they will die fairly quickly depending on how many fish are in a 1000 gallon tank and what size they are. If there is a lot of large fish in a 1000 gallon tank over a 12 hour night, you will probably loose some (if not all) your fish.
You could run air and even circulation (air lift pump) off a huge compression air tank. Store the air while you have power and use it when you need. Prolly be cheaper than batteries. A compression will go bad, but tanks last forever unlike batteries.
hey, when your fish are small don't they swim through the pipes at the bottom of the ibc? How do you prevent that because mine do but i put a wire mesh on them, only thing is I have to change the wire often before it rusts and rottens.
Don't worry I saw what you did in the other vid
Jameel Phillip Yea Jameel, the holes in the plug pipe are 1/4 inch and are all up and down and around the pipe..they pickup the vast majority of solid wastes and carry it to the solids filter....When you do a water change on the tanks, reach in there with a curved toilet brush and go up and down and under the pipe so you can dislodge anything that is hung up on the edges of the holes or across two holes. I have never had a 1 inch + fish get through the holes. Thanks for the comment....Greg
Mineral Springs Tilapia Thanks a lot. And I've been learning a lot from your vids, good job, very well done i must say. I currently have an aquaponic system with 3 tanks and I'm gonna setup a 6 tank system like what you have here
Jameel Phillip A six ibc tank system will contain approximately 1500 gallons of water (assuming that you are using 275 gal totes. Just make sure you use a large enough pump. You will need one that will be able to turn your system over about once an hour. My system is 1100 gallons and I use a 1500gph pump and it is just about right.
When did mine in my garage I started with one tote had 300 become easily 600 so fast
Why not use a media bed and some heavy feeding plants to pull out nitrate? Thanks for sharing! Awesome setup!
Hey Joseph, if you put plants in a breeding tank of fish, you would have to replace them every week. The fish would graze them down to nothing very quickly. Having a media bed in the tanks for my purposes would double my tank cleaning times as well. My fish, except for my breeders, spend very little time in the hatchery.
Mineral Springs Tilapia Not plants, or media in your tanks. A separate tank or tanks for media and plants. I have both in my system that's not up yet. Float beds for plants, and a media tank with bell siphon to cycle the water up and down to convert nitrite to nitrate.
oh, ok. Problem with the hatchery is there are 34 tanks in the building with fish in every tank and not enough room to work effciently now. Don't know how I could integrate a system like that into the mix. I would need to add on to the building I guess.
Mineral Springs Tilapia you could, put the extra beds or tanks over your existing tanks and stay on the same foot print. Alot of aquaponic system's are set up that way anyway for convenience. It seams like your water bill would be staggering the way you are doing it now.
Water in Tennessee is Not High. The biggest problem is that my power is above the tanks and I can't put anything up there. Also I am 65 and lost my leg in a workplace accident 11 years ago and couldn't do the construction to build a system like that. Although I see where it could work, my sponge filters take care of the ammonia and nitrites and I do the water changes weekly to take care of nitrates.
How often do you clean the tanks?
Depends on how efficent your filter system is cleaning the water
I have watched all your videos now and really appreciate what you have shared. In one video, you mentioned you put 1 table spoon of table salt, non iodized, in your tanks with fish that are a few inches or larger to help keep the parasite problems down. Do you use that water that you change out to fertilize/water your yard plants/garden? If so, does the salt impact the plants viability?
+Evan Kenison Since I have the Hornorum Male, I am not allowed to discharge water directly from my facility to the outside, I first have to run it through a tank laced with chlorine in order to sterilize the water the level of chlorine is much higher than city water, so I can't even use it to water my plants.
+Mineral Springs Tilapia what is the concern about using the water on your land from that breed of tilapia?
+Evan Kenison +Mineral Springs Tilapia I ask this question because I am considering getting
Hornorum Male for Chocolate or Pennyfish hybrid's myself, but want to
use the water to fertilize my plants
+Evan Kenison The concern is escapement. I live on a hill and within 1 mile of a creek. When they came to inspect my facility they said I would have to treat the water before discharge to make sure there was no chance of anything alive in the water and that it would have to be discharged using a 4 inch PVC pipe dug 20 feet into the ground, So after treating the water in 2 55 gallon barrels I open a line that is going down the PVC pipe to be absorbed into the ground 20 feet from the surface...they just want to make sure that there is no opportunity for the species to get into the lakes in E. Tennessee. Not sure why they are so worried about that, the fish cannot live in the water when it drops below 60 degrees.
+Mineral Springs Tilapia The small fish can sometimes be siphoned up when cleaning tanks. The fry are only half the size of a grain of rice and can be easily overlooked.
When you clean all of the tanks do you take all of the fish out of the tanks and if not how do you clean the tank without taking them out?
The tanks are cleaned with the fish in the water, they are never moved.
How do you make sure when you are ciphoning you don't get any of the fish if you leave the fish inside the tank?
Cover the end of the syphon hose that is in the tank with a porus sponge or net to keep them from going through.
We're you located, sir
How can i order tilapia from you
Sir, do we need direct sunlight for fish farming?
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sir how meny tilapia you stock in 3 tank i am intirested in your project sorry if my englis is not good
What size tank and how large do you want them to grow. If you are growing them to eat, I would give them at least 4 gallons of water per fish so they will grow quickly and larger.
In a full 275 gallon tote, I would stock no more than 60 fish.
How many tilapia per tank
Im located in PA just outside of Philadelphia
Jessica Pfeffer Hey Jessica, let me know what your are looking for in the way of Fish
Mineral Springs Tilapia My e-mail is jaypfeffer77@gmail im looking for about 25 to start a colony.
I don't se algae in your tanks how do you stop the growth?
Because fish are always in and out quickly, the tanks get cleaned and new water added weekly. The algae doesn't get a chance to grow.
Mineral Springs Tilapia TKS
What do you mean they are in and out quickly when you sell them? If you keep them in the tank how do you make sure that there is no algae inside? Can you keep a couple algae eaters in with the tilapia?
hi.. how often you do the water change?
Luis Cancel This is a subjective answer.....only when I need to. What that means is that I use various factors to determine when the water needs to be changed. If there is a light bio-load in the tanks, I might get away with once a month. Like right now, for instance, There are only 58 fish in 1100 gallons of water, so it takes those 58 fish a lot longer to affect the water quality than when there were 1000 fish in the same system. When I have a heavy bio-load in system, I have to change some of the water every two weeks. Another factor that influences how often you do water change is how much you are feeding. If you are trying to grow your fish fast, you are usually feeding more heavily and the fish are producing more waste so you have to do water changes (and clean the solids filter) more often. If it is winter and your water is cooler, the fish don't eat as much so you don't need to change water as often. If you test your water (ammonia, nitrites, nitrates and PH), your water quality tests will tell you when you need to change some water. Thanks for the comment Luis, hope this helps. ........Greg
Thank help a lot.
Where you bio filter
Hi How many days should I stay before changing the water in the IBC catfish pound of 250 fishes?
I only grew tilapia so I don't really know the answer to your question, but it depends on the size of the fish in the tote....I would not let the water get too nasty before changing out at least some of the water. I would probably change the water before the point where you can't see the fish on the bottom of the tote.
what state are you located?
I'm interested in some of your fish
TammyandSorin Salcianu I am in Tennessee, but I ship to most places.
+Mineral Springs Tilapia Hey I see in your website that you ship to outside USA is it possible to ship to Sweden , thank you
+Chadli Réda Hey Chadli, I do not have an exporters license so I cannot ship live animals out of the USA, sorry.
no problem and thanks for answering , do you know any one or place to export nil tilapia ?'
There are too many restrictions on both sides of the pond and it is difficult to get fingerlings over there alive. I'm very sorry, but I do not know anyone who exports these fish. In a lot of states in the US, Nile Tilapia are a restricted species.
hello I'm looking to start a small garage project with tilapia for personal use,
my main question is how do I treat or cure the water so won't harm the fish or humans???? I don't want to add any chemicals in the water that are bad for human consumption!!!
thanks for you. time
The only thing I have found is Aqualife Complete. It is the only product that is approved for use with food fishes and is really great when it comes to preparing the new water to place your fish into. Check my website at mineralspringstilapia.com
Mineral Springs Tilapia thanks for your time I would check you website thanks
Rodney, I use Vitamin C for about 2 years, no problems. 500mg per 50 gallons. I do up to 90% water change. As it is being filling up, I add the vitamin C.
Wow I would try that thanks
You can also use Instant D-Klor or Cloram-x. Both are safe for humans, plants, and fish
Where are you located? Im interested in some of your fish, do you ship?
Jessica Pfeffer Hey Jessica, I am located in East Tennessee. I just began breeding for the spring (I can't breed during the winter because of temperatures here). I can ship. Let me know what you are looking for.
Greg
Mineral Springs Tilapia Hi... Sir...Can you ship here in Saudi Arabia?
Hey Nelson, I do not have an export license and cannot ship outside the US.
+Mineral Springs Tilapia... Thank You Sir... Iam interested but I think its not available here... God Bless you Sir
Thank you for your interest and Good Luck with your project....God Bless You Too!
Does your project pay for itself?
+Willie Cowyin The first year it did not....I was bleeding out of my wallet! The second year after I developed my website, things picked up and I broke even. This year I am already in the black, building the new hatchery and shipping lots of fish, food and aqualife. I am replacing a lot of equipment and even though the Hatchery is a lot of work, I am having a lot of fun and this looks like it will be my best year by far. I am down to about 7000 fingerlings and they will be gone in the next two or three weeks. It takes a while, but it can be done.
+Mineral Springs Tilapia it definitely looks fun. Something I'd like to do in future but I'm not looking for an expensive hobby lol
My grandson's mohawk....it's gone now.
Nice video and why his hair red
DavesterVideos ok
If possible you can say Kam fish in the basin and the water of thank you
What is Kam fish?
The whole basin is full of fish
I need 2000 ltrs. This tank.
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Finish farming
Home grown tilapia taste very bad
very nice