Fish Whisperer

Don’t know why, but my grand daughter has a gift for connecting with our female tilapia. We have not seen any activity in 2 days. She comes over and boom mom spits out a dozen babies for her to see, than takes them beck in. Very cool.

Wait and see

Well I received some great advice and now we are waiting to see if she still has the eggs. No sign in the last 2 days. Need my grand daughter with her young eyes and patients to check it out.

Oh that make sence

Posted a question on an Aquponics forum and this was a responce I received

People frequently try to intervene and end up disturbing a very successful, natural process. Tilapia know how to have and then care for their young. There have been many unfortunate experiences posted by folks trying to "help."

She needs to get to those eggs - she will collect them and eject them over and over again. The tumbling process is beneficial to the eggs. You may have seen youtube vidoes of people building "tumblers" to simulate this. Many attempting to artificially hatch eggs have sad results as well. Moms know best - let her take care of her babies.

After they hatch, I generally don't take mom out for a few weeks. By that time they can eat finely ground pellets.

Babies!!!

Here are pictures of the new mommy and some of her babies. Hope they make it as I don't have a clue what I'm doing. note the BBQ fish cooker protecting the babies. HA HA

Fish Eggs

Well athe little lady is all set up in the 10 gallon tank! let see what happens.
Hope to have some pictues tomorrow

Well I don’t have my new system set up and one of the Tilapia has a mouth full of eggs. Time to panic. Thinking of getting a 10 gallon tank to try and save them.

New system

Picked up 18 tilapia and a 80 gallon tank,will be building a new system this coming weekend. Hope to have pictures on Monday.