Finding aquaponics fish fingerlings can be challenging.
When you start your aquaponics system you will go through a cycling process which generally last for a month. Then, the ecosystem will be ready to receive your first fish. If you do your homework you will know the best adapted species for your aquaponics system. Indeed, it will depend on the temperatures, specificity of your system, legislation and availability. Anyway, when it comes to get the fish you have different options:
1.Order your fish from a website able to ship you the stock.
This is not available everywhere but you may be lucky enough to live in an area where you can order online and get fish delivered to your order. Hence, the fish chipped are generally small, the size of a finger and for this reason they are called “fingerlings”.
2.Get your fish from a local farm.
Have you got the chance to have a fish farm close to your place? Then, you may be able to visit them and ask to buy some young fish for your aquaponics system. Explain your project and feel free to talk with the fish farmers. Indeed, they are very interesting people and you will learn a lot from them. Furthermore, If they agree to sale you some fish, take this opportunity to buy a bag of fish food as well. Be prepared and go with a large esky that you will fill with water. They are not always equipped with plastic bags and pure oxygen.
3.Go fishing from local rivers and dams.
if you have a damn or river next to you, you may want to go fishing and stock your pond with wild fish. This is probably the most economical option but not always easy.
4.Get fingerlings from your aquaponics friends
You may have a friend who is able to reproduce fish (Tilapia…) or is growing to many of them and will be able to supply you J. If not you may be able to find someone locally from a forum.
You will probably be interested to discover Jonathan’s six steps to build and manage an Aquaponics system. Click here to access for free! Thanks and good reading 🙂
