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[ozexpat]

Tialpia are great aquaponics fish.

A future project of mine

 

[vehve]

Everytime I've seen them on some prepper show, the taste has been described as "not unpleasant"

 

[perchie.girl]

Tilapia are amazing 1.5 lbs of food for 1 lbs of fish. Amazing.

depends on how you grow em... and what your food costs.

deb "who can grow them here without heating the water"

 

[perchie.girl]

But does tilapia taste good?

Tilapia are kind of muddy like Cat fish... Though I like the taste of Tilapia MUCH more than catfish.
and they are pretty much vegitarians.... so your food tastes like what you feed it.

When I used to have my big Aquarium set up I found that the recommendations for feeding fish are to sell FISH food.

I used to regularly feed my tropicals spinach, Zucchini, and spirulina... an algae.... as a supplement.... and I only fed them about twice per week. You can grow spriulina yourself...

deb

 

[perchie.girl]

Tialpia are great aquaponics fish.

A future project of mine

Oz I have found a couple of sources on Craigslist recently.... I want the ones that are not genetically modified... ONe breeding pair is all I need. Once I am ready to do it.

deb

 

[vehve]

The fish tanks are sort of fascinating... but they do take up a lot of room. And may need heating.

 

[perchie.girl]

The fish tanks are sort of fascinating... but they do take up a lot of room. And may need heating.

To grow Tilapia you need hundreds of gallons... In your latitude there are better fish that you can farm. fish that prefer colder water...

To have an aquarium in your home is pretty simple. You need an aquarium heater to keep the water at a steady temperature... They are not very high in wattage..... once the water is the proper temperature they shut off. In This case the bigger aquarium you can accommodate the better. I prefer twenty gallons minimum.

When I worked in the Aquarium store we had half Salt water tanks and half fresh water.... Salt water is much more difficult.

My last tank was a 110 gallon.... its up at the house in the carport. I hope to raise up my breeder fish in that one.

deb "Oh and 1 gallon of water weighs almost nine pounds..... 3.8 liters wieghs 4.1 kilos..." reinforcing the floor is a good idea with a piece of plywood that fits the stand.... spreading the weight out over more surface area.

 

[ozexpat]

My Tilapia will be in a 10 cubic meter conrete tank

The aquaponics setup will grow herbs and veggies , fed from the poop of a few hundred fish. That way 1.5kg of fish food will become 1kg of fish and .5kg of plant food

 

[vehve]

Salmon farms do work in the sea here, that would be one way. Requires oceanfront property though.

Deb, 3.8 liters is 3.8 kg, at NTP.

Oz, that sounds like a smart setup, aren't there some algae you can feed the fish too that would grow in there?

 

[perchie.girl]

Salmon farms do work in the sea here, that would be one way. Requires oceanfront property though.

Deb, 3.8 liters is 3.8 kg, at NTP.

Oz, that sounds like a smart setup, aren't there some algae you can feed the fish too that would grow in there?

OK I will stop trying to convert.... Water is heavy... support the aquarium....

The idea behind aquaponics is to have a circulated water system that pumps the effluent from the fish up through grow beds for veggies it is then circulated back down through the fish. So the system requires fresh water fish.... I did some looking at aquaponics in Alaska and Yep they are doing it there.... All Green house setups... With of all things Freezers converted to fish tanks... What a great idea... chest freezers.... completely insulated and mostly watertight... though I would expect that a freezer would be only about a hundred gallons.

I want to use water totes they are about 250 gallons and cube shaped... perfect volume and surface area for raising fish.... Plus they have all the plumbing access you would require.... Large sized too for raising up fry to a certain size and transferring to grow out tanks.... I also want to give crayfish a try.... Or freshwater Prawns.... they need a different setup though. Surface area and circulation..... But the water could be the same...

deb