Backyard Aquaponics
A place to discuss aquaponics

University of Sterling is doing significant research on Tilapia....

http://www.aquaculture.stir.ac.uk/Syste ... ianews.htm

they're even looking for expressions of interest from people interested in small scale farming....



And are doing commercial trials in Devon with Fresh Water Fish Farms Ltd, Butterleigh, Devon

And there's UK Tilapia ....





And here's a Tilapia hatchery site... http://www.eastangliantilapia.co.uk/

And another ... http://www.fishgen.com/ ... based at the University of Wales Swansea

Google is a wonderful tool

Thanks for that Rupe
It looks like we have plenty of tilapia available afterall

As in all things, what you read and what is right are two different concepts.

I'll make no comment on what was posted other than to say that I am in the early stages of contact with the Guys n gals @ Stirling and thus far they have been brilliant.

I will do later Rupert, If I put public now my concept and plans I would immediately be dispatched to the looneybin

I have been discussing heat storage today with a very qualified Electrician and a Plumber friend, both of them say I cannot do what I think will work so I might try it and post it here or write it out and post it to see what others think. Trouble is, as I see it, people growing Tiapia in the UK are not, in the main like me/us. They are interested in money from the major chains.

I think the European network is a good idea, and I'd be happy to help. As far as I know, I'm still the only member from the Netherlands / Holland. I don't know much here, but I know there's a research center that does a research program on aquaponics (tilapia & tomatoes), and I believe there's one company that uses salt fish wastewater to grow vegetables (not truly aquaponics, though). Funny how they say that we're the leading country when it comes to technological advances in horticulture (not sure if that's true, though), while nobody here even knows what aquaponics means.

Second hand IBC's are almost free in the Netherlands, and you should be able to get just about any kind of plant here, but I don't know much about fish.

If anybody needs some Dutch information translated, or anything else I might be able to help with, just send me a PM.

I`ve never found that to be much a deterent

I would think that after acquiring the initial tilapia broodstock you should be pretty much self sufficient for rearing your own fry.

It took me a long time to escape last time they got me Hex.

The problem is broodstock, plenty of places will sell you fingerlings to grow on but not a decent broodstock to be self sufficient, they want you to keep coming back to them to purchase fingerlings which is what I want to avoid.

I also want to avoid fish that are 'treated' with testosterone and similar and that is the hard part.

The nearest I can find as of this minute is the USA, and whilst I have to say that the guys stock is fantastic and he has put a lot of work into them I cannot justify the costs as a simple loss of power would leave me in that place without a paddle!

Xzorby I will send you a PM shortly, I have a job for you, which, should you choose to accept it will be detailed in my message..........

Unfortunately Xzorby your PC will now destruct in 10 seconds.

What is it they say, you wait ages for a bus and then two come along!

I have been searching lots of places locally for a decent second hand shed, searching just about the whole world for some decent broodstock and waiting months for my friendly decorator to come and decorate my daughters room before she finishes Uni and waiting for my chickens to stop moult so I can restart my breeding program........

Waiting and waiting, last week I got fed up, with it all, and embarked on a new project, converting an annexe I have into a self contained flat.

Last Monday I started, Tuesday I get a phone call from a chap who has two sheds for me..........

Got them collected Wednesday.

Thursday my chickens got back to full egg prodution. Now I don't have enough nest boxes!

Friday my decorator phones to say he can start today!

I have found somebody with decent YY Male Tilapia, he lives about 15mins drive from my sister!

And an hour ago I went into my own breeding tank to see about 50 tiny tilapia fry happily swimming around eating algae.

There you have it, wait and wait and along it all comes in one big lump.

Mind you the plumber never turned up to do the annexe but heck, I got enough to do at the moment.

Well below freezing this morning but within a couple of hours of sunrise temp in my polytunnels was 13c......

I have a feeling this just might work out, time to get building from my mad plans and ideas.

hello!

i have a chance to visit budapest in hungary, and i was wondering if anyone does AP in budapest or something hydroponically?

any info is appriciated!
have a good day

Try "googling"

been surfing the whole morning, still haven't found something useful....search goes on:)

Try contacting these places..... most of them have done hydroponic trials/studies of some sort...

Department of Applied Chemistry, Faculty of Food Science, Corvinus University of Budapest, Budapest, Hungary, 2Plant
Protection Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary, 3Department of Plant Physiology and Plant
Biochemistry, Faculty of Horticultural Sciences, Corvinus University of Budapest, Budapest, Hungary

thank you ruperto, i've found most of them before but they don't have what i want mostly. a professor gave me a contact in budapest, hydroponic one. but now it looks like i won't be going anywhere...we'll c,
have a nice day!

Aup chaps, this is my 1st post & am really excited to find people like minded with the obssesion that is aquaponics.
i've very recently setup my initial AP system (will be posting in members systems with photos later) & like the guys were saying earlier I too wanted to setup with tilapia, they seem like fantasic fish to rear & eat, but my problem is the same.
I have found some one who can supply tilapia but are GMT all male fish, which really doesnt help me with the sustainability side of things.
So was wondering if anyone would know of someone who would be able to sell mixed sex tilapia in the UK, i'm based in northumberland & there's absoloutely no one around here even heard of tilapia!
any info would be fantastic.

Greetings, Glad to see I am not the only resident nutter here!

Which ones do you want shtopp?