Full body shot Tilapia

[akskirmish]

Thanks guys-
He mainly eats raw shrimp and freeze dried krill

 

[AlexG]

hello,
very nice !
Looks like my O.mossambicus.
These are called "gold" or "red" and no idea if were hybrids or not.
The huge Tilapia with the same colour which are breed for food are hybrids with O.niloticus.
I keep mine with the stingrays, they like stingray-poo allot

 

[straitjacketstar]

Beautiful.
I believe there are naturally occurring pink (or xanthic) O. mossambicus but most are also out of food fisheries and crossed with other Oreochromis sp..
There's no way to tell on looks alone but you have a stunning fish either way.

 

[mssassysan2000]

He looks nice fish.

 

[Hwarang_Samurai]

We have many of these swimming around in Hawaii i caught one myself and kept it as a pet Enjoy

 

[akskirmish]

hello,
very nice !
Looks like my O.mossambicus.
These are called "gold" or "red" and no idea if were hybrids or not.
The huge Tilapia with the same colour which are breed for food are hybrids with O.niloticus.
I keep mine with the stingrays, they like stingray-poo allot

Confused me here-Sorry

Do you think mine is pure or hybrid?

 

[Loulou]

Based upon the numerous ones that we have in the rivers here, I believe that you have an hybrid...

 

[AlexG]

Hello,
the thing is nobody knows if alle "other coloured" O.mossambicus are bred out of hybrids or not.
I mean thats like the thousands generation, so who knows.
But if u breed these with normal or golden O.mossambicus u get allot of O.mossambicus in both colours because bodyshape is the same.

 

[Duncan Davies]

nice fish you are sooo lucky in Queensland they are a banned fish if you catch one while fishing and release it back you get I think around a $60000 fine