Backyard Aquaponics
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"transporting fish can be stressful"

Especially if they're yours Janet!

Mine were just "Drop Shipped".

...well, maybe "Drop, Bounce, Kick Shipped".

DT--have your tommies set fruit as yet?

not even close...they have only just been transplanted about 2 weeks ago. Just 20 cm high

Oh bugger!
New ones then

I think I am turning the corner, The last of the fish I suspecedt would die, did die last night. I see no floaters today so I take that as a good sign. I think I will wait one more day before changing the water just to make sure I have it all... Then I will do 20% changes per day. How does that sound? Or should be the changes be bigger?

If you have chloramine, 20% is probably wise. I have chlorine which I de-chlorinate. I do 50% changes when I'm trying to clear something from the water.

My dear friend ..

The tilapia you are raising are Mossombiques?

If so ...

Take a couple of good looking males (BIG ONES)

and say 5 or six sexy females .. and put them in a pond with loads of caves ... on ther own ..

Thay will give you as much fry as you need!

Keep a good stock of best male and females for breeding ... in a pond or an aquarium. Keep notes too!


Tilapia are the most interesting fish!

Chlorine is in our water... We are not sophisticated enough for chormine.

My Tilapia are nile. but that is a good plan... Both times I have gotten new fish, I have had problems. Granted I may be a big part of the problem. If I can raise my own, I will be much better off.

Definatly worth the effort! dt...

I am really becoming frustrated. The fish just don't quit dying! now I don't wait for them to die. If I see one with fuzz and he is swimming slowly I reach in and throw him out. There are less and less slow swimmers, but then there are less and less fish . I keep thinking I am turning the corner but am still seeing new fish on their sides. The fungus (or whatever it is) seems to be concentrating on the gills the mouth and the fins. I am beginning to wonder if it is ich. Don't know how I would treat that any differently than I already have. So far, neither of my big breeders has the fuzz.

Seems like your doing everything right have to just be patient for the cure to take hold.

DT, I had all my fish die by ones and twos last Summer, so I feel for you. The tilapia will be such good breeders that I think you should be justified in being strict with the weak ones.

Dt are the ones with the fuz swimming really slow very near the surface of the water?

If so it sound EXACTLY like what was happening to mine...........they'd die by ones and twos..check out this thread here

http://backyardaquaponics.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=968

I think what they have is saprolegnia, a secondary mould infection. The prognosis is not good at all. Basically it calls for keeping the salt levels at 5ppt indefinitely over the long haul and using malachite green. I understand, both of these options are not conducive for AP.