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My Tilapia Harvest Begins
Water temps hit the mark this morning- the largest one so far has weighed 1 lb. 11 oz- hope they taste as good as they look
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How did you get them, Cast net dip net ?????
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I had some tilapia in a cage (NW Ohio) that I harvested this week when water temp was 47. Some of them were struggling to stay upright.
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nice mess of fish did they do the job you expected?
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Let us know how they taste.
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Tilapia for me from the pond have always been better than those good ones from the store.
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Very good looking fish! wonder what kind of tilapia they are? Also interested in how you caught them!
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I got them from White Brook- pretty sure they are Red Nile (the light one and the others are Blues- I got the hachery choice and the were about an inch long when I stocked them the last week of May- they grew fast. I caught them with a dip net. They are swimming really slow with the water temp at 50 degrees.
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I had some Friday night and they are great! I agree, much better than store bought
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Yes they did! I just wanted them to grow so I could harvest this fall. I wasn't sure what to expect, but I thought I would give it a try. I was shocked to see how small they were when I recieved them (about an inch- some less), but they grew real fast!
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How many did you stock?
Are there other fish in the pond?
Did you notice any offspring from these stockers?
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Sorry for the delay in response. I stocked 150, and I only got a little over 50 harvested. About 3 weeks after harvest I started having dead ones float up from the bottom- there was about 25 of them. I did have other fish in the pond, but they were newly stocked- nothing big enough to eat them when I stocked em. Not sure If i
ll do it again.
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How big was your pond and how much filamentous algae did you have this summer? Did you notice extra turbidity or more cloudy water this summer?
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