TILAPIA / NILE TILAPIA / OREOCHROMIS NILOTICUS
Dibaq has a full line of products for tilapia that have been designed for the production of this species in intensive facilities with high loads.
These are highly digestive products that guarantee a low index of conversion and that create very few wastes.
- Distribution: Tilapia originated in Africa. It has been placed in Asia, Central America and South America to its cultivation.
- Feeding: It is an omnivore species that eats fitoplancton, perifiton, aquatic plants, small invertebrates, benthic fauna, wastes and bacterial caps linked to detritus.
- Fishing: With net.
- Breeding: Small lakes, ponds, cages and tanks.
- Reproduction: Courtship takes several hours. Fecunded eggs and embryos (until 15 days) are inside the femaleâ´s buccopharyngeal cavity (80.6ºF), so she stops eating. At high temperature, males are predominant over females. Consecutive hermaphoditism.
Cultivation of Larvae
| Temperature | 82.4ºF |
| Salinity | fresh water |
| Oxygen | > 5,5 ppm |
| Density | – |
| Survival | 15 (estimation) |
| Egg diameter | 0.06 in |
| Larva’s length | 0.16 in |
Fattening
| Temperature | 77-89.6ºF |
| Salinity | fresh water |
| Oxygen | > 3 ppm |
| Load | 0.187-0.25 lb/ft3 |
| Duration | 5-9 months |
| Final weight | 0.66-1.1 lb |
| Survival | 70-90% |