Double digits for my tilapia

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kdrun76

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My tilapia turned 10 years old this week.

I raised his parents as part of a grad school project and pulled the fry out of the filters 10 years ago this week. Pretty cool.

What does one do to celebrate a 10 year old fish? You make him a birthday cake, errr, umm birthday cantaloupe!

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Congratulations! That is a very cool accomlishment. He looks like he can't wate to dig in. Nice size tank too.
 
His name is Taco, he lives in a 180 gallon tank.

He is about 23" long now.
 
Happy Birhday/week Taco.I had an Oreochromis that reached about six years....Good to see you posting K.
 
krichardson said:
Happy Birhday/week Taco.I had an Oreochromis that reached about six years....Good to see you posting K.
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I don't even have a guess for a life span on him, or even a max size for that matter. He's a little bigger every time I measure him. He was 18-19" 2.5 years ago when I moved him into the 180.

How big was your 6 year old Oreochromis?
 
ska_kid said:
You pull the fry from the filter ?

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Yes, the fish were not intentionally bred. Finding fry in the filter was quite a surprise. All fish in the tank were believed to be hybrid sterile males.


I had two groups of hybrid sterile male fish
0reochromis mossabicus x O. Hornorum
O. niloticus x O. aureus


When my research was done I put them together to live out their days and I found fry in the filters a few weeks later. To the best of my knowledge Taco is a 4 species hybrid with two male parents that are both sterile. Yeah, I can't explain it either. But he's pretty and purple and huge and I love him to pieces.
 
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