aggressive tilapia within your pond or tank space
hi everybody welcome again to another okay so i showed you in the last video that i had
four fish she female one male within this space primarily as a startup rootstock
right uh this uh tilapia is getting really feasty or should i say aggressive um in comparison to the
others this is the male and a female right okay now she's actually um clearing the spot and she
is actually not allowing anybody else to actually venture within that squeeze so the question is why
all right so there are several factors which may actually predetermine the behavior or
should i say determine the behavior one such factor is that she's about to release
either egg or fry and two she has actually released egg or fry just a while ago
and she is actually a little bit defensive of the egg off right that me with it maybe within that
space okay so this primarily wouldn't this video primarily wouldn't be of interest to persons who
have like large system because they would actually just get some amount of fry
i should say they would get some amount of um large uh rootstock and they would
actually just place it in a space and over time they would actually you know get
like tons of of of of tilapia breeding within a set space and they would call it a bootstrap pun
right but for persons like beginners who you know trying to start something and i'm not
talking about um start something with uh mono sex uh your fingerlings i'm talking about um
uh tilapia that have the potential of breeding right this is one of the the features that
that you should look for um that tells you that um you know you're gonna get baby soon and you
need to pay special attention to the space right so there's a lot of chasing going on um the orange
looking large looking one is male right you see how it looks um husky
in comparison to the skinny ones the skinny ones are normally the females and reason why they
are skinny is because they have actually spent some time keeping eggs uh whether the eggs have
hatched into babies yes or no that's that's just them they have actually keep eggs in their mouth
and having eggs in their mouth um limits the amount of food intake some of them actually
um just do not consume anything while some do right a point to note is that although they
are more building cichlids sometimes they might take a bite sometime they might not
right but usually mob ruined cichlids they would the females would once they have eggs in their
mouth they would practically stay away from everybody else secrete themselves in our corner
and just wait with it for 30 days or 40 days or whatever sit there and wait patiently within its
face and they probably would be a little bit defensive of this piece um just similar to
this tilapia tilapia secret i have actually noticed this also within the large fan space
this is a large span space and usually when i do see like a female on the sides
right with no other fish beside it i can fly in a few minutes and this is not normally what happened
during the course of water change within the pond space a little bit more uh well
it's not clear as the pond that you were seeing prior to this
right uh this is because this is my like my gold top and topping which um the larger ones are in
and the larger ones will probably um consume the smaller one that's the reason why i have my boots
up um the stock is smaller in comparison to this one water is clear always kept clean and um if
i do not um observe this one that regularly the bootstrap is normally observed are taken care of
more in comparison to the large upon space so this is going to take a while to fill um probably about
the next two or three hours it will be filled and then um you see what we see but as far as i'm
seeing right now um there is no potential fries to harvest um into this um cleaning right so um
as i said before whenever there you see a skinny tilapia at one side of the corner tank
um getting aggressive to everything else that is in the space uh it's either egg has been released
and it's in the mouth just been fertilized by the meal or fries have
well fries are about to be released and it's just cleared out its territory ensuring that
no other fish comes near so as to consume its fried thank you very much for stopping by i
hope that this video will be instructive to you i wonder for you guys peace out catch you next time