Agriculture Reference
In-Depth Information
Overfeeding your fish or feeding your fish too often will stress your fish. The number one
cause for stressed or sickly fish or fish problems is OVERFEEDING YOUR FISH. Only
feed your fish what they will eat in 15 seconds. It is far better to UNDERFEED your fish
than it is to OVERFEED YOUR FISH. When your fish are small (less than 2” in length)
feed them a pinch of food several times per day and no more. For example, if you have 50
fish in a 100 gallon Fish Tank, feed them 1/8
th
of a teaspoon of a high protein koi fish flake
food(availableatpetstores)fourtimesperday(alwaysindaylighthours).Whenthey're2”
long, we'll grind up catfish chow to feed them one tablespoon three times per day. They're
babies and should be spoiled and fussed over with lots of ooohs-ahhhs and baby talk when
you feed them.
Photo 3: Tilapia
Colle Davis balks at allowing us to publish any photos of 'dead fish' because we care for
our fish and yes, we even
love
them. We do offer sketches, drawings, renderings, and we
publish photos of uncooked tilapia filets and cooked tilapia but we don't publish pictures of
dead fish. But, we convinced him to allow us add this one stock photo (that we purchased)
to show you a close-up of a tilapia. At first glance, you will see they're not the 'prettiest
girl at the dance' and they don't have glamorous features or grand coloring, but they are a
very happy and healthy fish and a pleasure to work with in aquaponics.
PFAS LLC does NOT breed or sell fish. We buy our 1″ tilapia “fingerlings” from local
tilapia breeders.
In the US, contact your State's Fish and Wildlife Department for local tilapia breeders in
your area. For those of you in the US, here is a list of fish breeders by State provided by
the Federal
Fish and Wildlife Department
.
Of course, these are not the ONLY breeders/
hatcheries, but you can begin to make calls and do your own research.
