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.

Well, I pulled everything out. To cold without a greenhouse. Will keep the water circulating until spring to keep the fish alive. Hope to get the plastic tank pulled and line the box with rubber liner. Fish are doing very well.

Lost th Bok Choy

Lost the Bok Choy. not sure if it was the organic bug spray from Home Depot or cool nights. Thinking it was the bug spray. The Egg plant starting to look a little under the weather.