Backyard Aquaponics
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I put these pictures in my system thread, bu they are really more fish related. I have two tilapia carrying eggs and I wanted to get a picture of these mouth brooders. Here is one of my regular fish.




There is almost a pouch in the lower jaw of the fish that fills up with the eggs during brooding shown below.




Maybe this is old hat for everyone, I just thought it was kind of cool. I should have several hundred little ones here before too long.

That is cool. I got my first tilapia last weekend and I think they are spawning. One of the looks just like your first pic and you can see "something" rolling around in there. I wish she would open up and let me see!

Hautions, how big is the female?? I have some about that size in my 150 gallon aquarium (not sure of sex) and I'm wondering should I be checking my biofilter for babies as the drain tube is about 2" pipe. big enough I found a couple 1" fish on the pre-filter media.

Since most of my tanks where the fish are big enough to breed are not aquarium, I've only seen brooding fish from the top. I usually recognize a broody female by the dark stripe over her eyes and behavior right before she releases the babies (aggressively guarding the corner or something.)

Cool picture though.

My tilapia are currently spawning like crazy indoors. I'm going to run out of room soon if I can't sell some of these little guys.

ranpmiller - Did you buy your tilapia from a woman named Sarah in Kansas City?

Insert "yellow brick road" and "red shoe " comments here:>

Chappo - Sarah is my wife. We actually live on the Missouri side of Kansas City. Many years ago we lived in Topeka, Kansas though (the other OZ).

So Flying Monkeys are no good for AP systems????

I question the value of flying monkeys in AP systems for sure (creepy poop throwers), and the tin man would be a rust bucket in just a few short weeks with my humidity in the greenhouse. hehe