The mom keeps the fertilized eggs in her mouth until they hatch then she lets the babies in and out to protect them. Here is a video of her picking them up. We have 3 moms with babies right now. So we should have at least another 300 tilapia.
The mom keeps the fertilized eggs in her mouth until they hatch then she lets the babies in and out to protect them. Here is a video of her picking them up. We have 3 moms with babies right now. So we should have at least another 300 tilapia.
Neat! thanks for that. without the explanation, the video could have been entitled "Tilapia feeding"
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LMAO, yeah it looks like she is eating them. If someone walks up to the tank she swims around sucking up the babies.
You really have some cool stuff set up! Very nice! And yes, I too would have guessed she was eating them, lol. I guess you could say that even fish have better maternal instincts than some human mothers....
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That's very neat! Although, from the title I thought you might be doing a Sniper dinner porn post about cooking baby tilapias,lol.
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LMAO, never occurred to me. Baby fish are called fry. They would not make much of a meal since they are about the size of a grain of rice.
you must have FRY'd up some big ones by now though...
Give a man fire, and he'll be warm for a day!
Light a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life!
Cat's are food... not friends!
If you're going to fight, then fight like you're the third monkey on the ramp into Noah's arc... and brother, it's starting to rain.
No not really, I have had some deaths, and have not determined exactly what is causing it yet. It is only in one tank and I have no idea why.
barbed hooks?
Give a man fire, and he'll be warm for a day!
Light a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life!
Cat's are food... not friends!
If you're going to fight, then fight like you're the third monkey on the ramp into Noah's arc... and brother, it's starting to rain.
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