raising fish for food? Update #109!!

[WhiteMountainsRanch]

GREAT! How were you able to get them already so large? We have about 30 in our tank, but they are still juveniles as we had to buy tiny fingerlings.

 

[jettgirl24]

Very cool. I would love to set up this kind of system at my new house as we will have plenty of room there.

 

[WhiteMountainsRanch]

Quote:
Research your area because Blue Tilapia are illegal to import in a lot of states.

We run ours year round, but with Tilapia in the warm months and goldfish and bluegill during the cold. I want to try carp during the cold months but haven't talked DB into it yet.

The warmer the water the faster the Tilapia will grow. Ours have quadrupled size in just about 6 weeks so far. We have a heater in our tank and try to keep it around 75. If it gets below 60 they will die.

 

[AndrewDe]

Aquaponics works great. We have successfully run both meat birds as well as rabbits on our aquaponic produce at our organic research farm in lLewiston, South Australia and have successfuly almost eradicated 98% scours and Coccidia issues and developed SPF1 rabbits for home industry. Chickens do very well on aquaponic produce and organic mixed grains and we obtained 5 kg birds in 8.5 weeks and 2 kg rabbits in 43 days. more information is available at www.1AQUAPONICS.com.au for fish and veg production as well as other information etc.

Andrew Dezsery M.Sc
International Specialised Skills Institute Fellow
AUSVEG 2010 Finalist

 

[cstronks]

Does anybody who has raised tilapia or another fish breed know what the minimum pond size would be??

 

[Marlene2012]

I have seen channel catfish on Ebay , in groups of 25 or more. Guessing it must be popular..

 

[cstronks]

I have seen channel catfish on Ebay , in groups of 25 or more. Guessing it must be popular..

I plucked some small catfish out of a lake by me one time and tossed them in my freshwater fish tank. They grew like weeds...absolutely unbelievable. Ate like champs too. Unfortunately as they grew they ate all of my other fish. I let the five I had go when they were about 8 inches (I had a 55 gallon and didn't want them to feel crammed up...but I would agree. Raising them is probably popular. I would raise them, however I think Tilapia is a better bet.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I made the mistake of putting an albino channel catfish into an aquatic terrarium I built for my son's basilisk lizard. The fish was only about 6 inches long but it caught the much larger basilisk, drown it and ate it.

 

[cstronks]

I made the mistake of putting an albino channel catfish into an aquatic terrarium I built for my son's basilisk lizard. The fish was only about 6 inches long but it caught the much larger basilisk, drown it and ate it.

Probably would have been best to go with a small freshwater variety known as a Cory Cat...Any true catfish like channel cats or blue cats will grow quite large...I've heard many stories of them just eating everything. Poor lizard!