My garden is currently under a significant amount of construction at the moment, and building is a slow process for me with my ailments. I'll have more videos on this soon.
I meant the fish growth rate but thats good info too lol. How long have you had the system running?
This is a new system as of last year. I have not harvested many Trout as my stalking license expired Dec 2016. Most of them are about a year old now, 2-4 pounds.
I'd rather use fish I can eat.
Same here in Colorado. Warm water fish will be better for me as I wish to use waste heat from my LED lights to warm the tanks.
The only way i can get trout to work is to move the waste heat upstairs to the room with the tilapia. Pretty easy since it will be right below that room. Just have to insulate the lines from the lights up to the room.
Btw, they grow much faster than my tilapia do.. granted i have blue tilapia which are some of the slowest growing tilapia, but its unreal how fast they grow in controlled conditions. They are just very picky fish and will die if anything is off.
Are they still edible off the floor? Look like keepers! Lol.
Unless the cat gets them first!
The idea that a cold water fish grows faster than a warm water species known for its productivity gives me pause;
Lol, I didn't know how long they were laying on the floor because that was just over the night. They go bad quick once they die.
Tilapia are being kept at an optimal 80-82°f. Trout at 63°f. The trout are rainbows. Here is where the conversion ratio makes a drastic difference, I feed the trout the upper end of what they can take daily, 4% of body weight for food intake and 90%+ is being converted to weight gain. My blue tilapia are about 1.4-1.5:1 so at best 71% conversion and a maximum feeding percentage of 4% at their growth stage. Now when younger the tilapia can grow faster and convert as good as 1.2:1 but as they get older their conversion ratio drops. This is why if I was to raise white Nile tilapia, they would reach maturity faster because their conversion ratio stays at the low end much longer and I can keep feeding a higher percentage for longer as well. I will grab about 20-50 of them soon just to see how some of the fastest growing tilapia perform. I think it will be a close one. Out the gate I know the tilapia grow much faster. And they are definitely cheaper to feed. As they get older they prefer vegetables which is dirt cheap to feed straight from plants growing in the system. I mix duckweed and scrap vegetables along with a high protein fish meal based pellets. The trout will ONLY eat meats like the high protein fish meal based pellets, worms, and small fish like minnows.
Less than 6 hours on concrete? You're fine.
Could've been as long as 12hrs. I ate a couple of the other ones that I knew weren't going to make it after being out flopping all over beating themselves to death.