Yearly production of tilapia in ponds ranging from 1 acre to 1/30th of an acre.

The productions seem to be a bit outrageous and unbelivable but the stocking densities we used in our pilot projects we ran in Palmetto were between 5 and seven pounds per cubic foot of water in our growing tanks and the u-tube oxygen system we used was more than capable of keeping our tanks full of tilapia happyily growing at the rate of .0176% per day, at approximatly 80 degrees farenhieght, with the heavy loads they carried.

I am relatively sure that with the oxygen delivery of was again 5 to seven pound per cubic foot and a properly constructed earthen pond with a u-tube of sufficient delivery capacity, capable of delivering the dissolved oxygen and a few other improvements growing pennyfish at one to two pounds per cubic foot of water stocking density that the ponds should be easily brought up to the production capabilities of our Palmetto system in terms of total growth of the pennyfish daily that are covered in this spread sheet. In other word growing tilapia in any of these systems should be “a walk in the park’ compared to what we have already done in Palmetto,Florida

Some calculations that might be of interest are that a one acre pond with a u-tube capable of dissolving 750 pounds a day and delivering the oxygen to the 1.5 pounds of pennyfish per cubic foot of the one acre pond The pennyfish can grow 500 pounds of weight gain from a pond stocked with
pond fully stocked at one and a half pounds of pennyfish per cubic foot of water will grow 500 pounds a day of pennyfish at 80 degees farenheigt and fed 750 pounds of quality feed per day.

A one acre pond 6 feet deep stocked at 2 pounds per cubic foot can produce will have
A one half acre pond 6 feet deep stocked at 2 pounds per cubic foot can produce will have
A one fourth acre pond 6 feet deep stocked at 2 pounds per cubic foot can produce will have
A one tenth acre pond 6 feet deep stocked at 2 pounds per cubic foot can produce will have

This means that with 66,800 pounds of live fish in the water can increase in weight between all pennyfish of all sizes a total weight gain per day of 1,176 pounds each day or 429,240 pounds per year which at $3.00 per pound alive would bring in $1,287,720 gross income per year.

This pounds of increased weight in such a pond will of course grow 3,500 pounds a week of pennyfish (FLESH) AND 182,000 pounds of pennyfish a year and if sold at current prices for $3,00 a pound would bring in $547,000 of gross income

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MIKE SIPE

I am 70 as of August 4th 2010.  I have spent over 41 years Breeding tilapia, improving tilapia gene lines creating Red tilapia, and improving the body form of "pennyfish" from 24% in 1963 to 50% in 2009. I have pioneered and installed high oxygen intensive aquaculture production  systems.   We (TILAPIA AQUACULTURE INTERNATIONAL) built the first u-tube used to control oxygen and co2 levels in aquaculture.   We can dissolve up to  800 parts per million parts of water and thereby control oxygen levels in growing situations. ( THIS IS WHAT MAKES OUR INTENSIVE CULTURE SYSTEM WORK SO WELL) We have designed hatchery systems to produce thousand of pennyfish fingerlings a day using breeder cages.   We have helped to establish the production of over two billion pounds per year of our tilapia in over 50 locations in North America, Mexico, South America, Central America, Kenya Africa, and Saudi Aribea in the Middle east.  Our goal is to help people with the production of tilapia necessary to *feed everyone* in the world a well balanced nutritious* diet, and to restore the forest of the world. If you wish to talk with me my phone number is 877 217 7006. Please feel free to call me during normal Eastern daylight times. At this particular time I believe that I have more hands on experience in building , designing and running u-tubes to lower the cost and risk for growing all kinds of Aquaculture by 10% - 20% and the cost of dissolving oxygen in an intensive system by 50- 85%. The safety issue is by far the most important issue because having complete control over the oxygen level in a tank helps to assure he safety of the crop and the cost. Another area where I have extensive experience is on what is required to create new characteristics in a gene line. We can take a tilapia that is black and turn it to a brilliant red or take a gene line and select for various body form changes or various internal genetics needed needed to manufacture certain expensive biochemical products..such as Heparin which is an important molecule in haemoglobin that plays a role in clotting blood. A good breeding and selection system could virtually increase the production of almost any biological chemical system in the tilapia.

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