Backyard Aquaponics
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Good morning, everyone. I know I'm getting ahead of myself here, but what does one feed newly hatched tilapia?

Thanks
Felix

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The food for fry needs to be either live food like zooplankton, brine
shrimp or high protein powder of flake food such as is used for trout
or salmon fry. We now use a diet from the local cooperative, which is
very good for these fish, and seldom do we lose any when this is
used.
The best food I have used so far is a mixture of dried spirulina and
artificial zooplankton. I get if from the local tropical fish cooperative.
If none of these are available there are a number of ways to solve the
problem of feeding the young tilapia fry.
One of the best feeding methods is to take a quart of the same food
that you use for the larger tilapia, and soften it in water, add two eggs,
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and then blend it till it is like a soup and mix it with two cups of water
that has just been boiled and in which you have mixed one ounce of
knox gelatin.
You then place the mixture into a bucket, pan or bowl and refrigerate
it until needed.
When you feed it to the fry you just take a half-teaspoon and drop it
into the tank for the first feeding and watch to see if they eat it. They
may not eat the first day or two especially if the yolk sac egg is still
showing in their own stomachs.

Charlie posted a link to Tilapia breeding,this is a paragraph on fry feeding.

Thanks!