massive water change to my tilapia pond
hi everybody welcome again to another episode of fish keep in jamaica welcome to my channel
all right so i had to actually drain all the water from these two fifty gallon toad i have about two
uh two dozen and tilapia some is ready to be eaten and some is too small just for co-creation
all right so essence of this video i'm doing massive water change
um one of the advantage of small tilapia fish farm okay so i do make stuff cultivation when
i used to do mixed up cultivation that is before i started to breed um tilapia um
right now instead of getting uh one thousand two dozer um tilapia fries or fingerlings
and for my indoor stuff i am now getting uh between ten to five dozen at any one go
all right so my last batch off of fries i wanted up to about uh 12 13 dozen
after chicken and uh a few died because of um improper um you know
in um salt you know but i still have about ten dollars left right essence of this video
when you have small tilapia fish farm setup it gives you another advantage in which large scale
tilapia fish farm setup doesn't have however a large scale tilapia fish set up do make more bucks
we'll make more monies so therefore it's not to say that you're gonna stop doing your large scale
till up your setup and go into small but i'm talking this video is primarily for the small
scale tilapia backdoor farmer okay so i'm doing massive water change i don't have the money to
um purchase um the amount of water conditioner i needed so as to you know change the water some
water my house up into the tank in which i shaded you a few months ago how i do water change however
this is a lot of fish guys and i would not like them to actually die because of coronation in the
water in a sense i am trying to preserve their health right so i shared with you already that
i use um what i call it aloe vera and aloe vera within my my my water and that should help too
distress them right it helps to it help them to be straightened as far as should in case there are
any um minute fragments of any chlorine in the water they'll be able to withstand that stress
okay so going into the meaning of the mata now mixed up cultivation can be bad and it can be good
um in mixed up cultivation it's normally done amongst small fish farmers right they would
practically put all the tilapia in one container and they would actually draw from that container
um till up your stock that is regarded as ready to be harvested no i have actually changed the
process and i have actually gone about to actually batch them right okay oh there is a
uh i could put up here with the black notches i said spots right i didn't see the last video so
you can check the last video some person say that the black squats can help to determine
that's not true all right so i did that in the last video uh essence of this
video is sometimes for small tilapia fish farmers although you have you might have
a stack of fish that is considered at the same age at the same size sometimes you're gonna need to
actually um do some water to it especially if you have mixed if you have mixed up cultivation
and the reason why i have to do water change i mean i take out all the fish place it somewhere
watch for the container place them in whack right and in comparison small fish farmers store
last till up your fish power last tilapia fish farmers will actually pull uh one egg or two acre
uh pizza land um well pond right uh with water and it will stay like that with tilapia in it
um periodically being filtered fish being treated literally fed on a regular basis
and it will stay like that for several months right after seven months the water will be drilled
to stay like um it will stay drained for a very long time probably about a week or two weeks and
in some cases all months right um we don't have that luxury for a small tilapia fish flowers small
chill after fish farmers don't have that luxury so um some might practice mixed up cultivation
wearing it they actually draw from a stock efficiency they have it in a country right because
of that what you'll find is that not all of the fish will be ready for harvesting at the same time
as a result of that you might have to actually do some cleaning of your point space your tank space
or whatever you keep your fish in um fair to do such will result in your tilapia fish getting sick
getting diseased and eventually dying right uh this is a 250 gallon tote and really actually i
if you're going into it let's say uh for the first uh a tote like this probably i would say
um if you're gonna batch i would say uh not more than probably that doesn't right but because i
started off mixed up cultivation at the beginning and those um during this match until i reached the
new asset of batteries which is about a dozen dozen and a half right which is practically
the same size right after all of these have been eaten consumed or whatever i do with them um i'll
be going to that one does another half or should i say 18 i replace it into this space so all 18 will
be ready at the same time so i don't have to be um doing massive water change like this throughout
their lifetime within a space right that's generally what they what the video is about um
so the water is being replaced right but before the water was replaced i had to find something to
place the fish in and this was not an easy this was an easy task like this was really difficult
so in an effort to do that i took one of my wife's um pan i said clothespin so i i took one of my
wife um paninish you know we put dirty clothes in and i actually filled it with water place all the
tilapia in it wash out that one and the 250 gallon tote so you can imagine that was cramped right
i had to do it very quickly and then what i did after i actually placed the fish while it has
been filled i replaced well took out the fish from out of the pan and place it into the tote so it
will be like that for another a few but normally i do water changing but i would like probably
drop it down to where it is at right now and then i would tap up back up you know so it's like 90
percent water change but it's a very long time since i have actually done a 100 water treat sweep
water change sweep and um you know you know fix up the fish make it they feel it a little bit more
you know relax because the cleaner the water the more relaxed they are the more they are attentive
to to actually breathe appropriate i i got a lot of fries um the last couple of about two weeks ago
so i am looking for the next probably two three weeks i should be able to get um as equal or more
flies within this space so uh the aloe vera is it in the water i can actually smell it in my hands
and i know that i'm gonna be tasting it in my hands later right but this is how it is guys
um it has been an ideal in in the sense that you know feeding very quickly returning the fish
and there's no light in the house because there was a heavy dome for a while ago
and the entire community is out of life however within a few hours it should return right so
that aspect of the fish keeping habit in jamaica makes me nervous at times all right so that's it
massive water change using aloe vera mixed up cultivation uh you know black spot i i actually
showed you some of my fish having a black spot not at least these guys fish this really nice although
they have the black spot it's a genetical um issue right and uh you know yeah let's look at that
thank you very much for stopping by guys have a wonderful day peace out bye-bye