* think

Are the forum topics meant to be confined to Diplomacy? :-P

@Jamiet99uk I was more hoping than thinking. Do you ask a barber if you need a haircut? It's better to get anecdotal information from a disinterested set of random people than experts, advocates and opponents.

For what it's worth, I ate some farmed tilapia a couple of days ago and I had the stinkiest farts in a long time. So did my fiancée. :) I didn't have a control group of wild tilapia eaters so I can't exactly claim causation of it being farmed - nor even that tilapia itself was necessarily the cause. Still, you wanted random anecdotal stories! :)

I don't farm any kind of fish. A few months ago, I looked into the feasability of farming my own catfish on a one-family usage scale. There is ample information online, including many youtube videos. I suspect the situation for tilapia is comparable.

Most catfish farmers go for ponds. This requires considerable acreage, but it is the most economical way to go. If you do it right, you can synergize other home-farming operations (like raising chickens) so your waste and by products from one operation can help fuel another operation. There also is a smaller-scale process for raising catfish in a succession of barrels/plastic garbage cans.

I decided both processes were too laborious to be worthwhile for me.

I tried planting a trout once, but it never grew. Maybe ill try malaria next. Should I start with frozen, or do you think fresh will give better results?

Haha talapia Autocorrects to malaria. That's funny.

You'll probably get better results with fresh, incubated in a vat of monkey blood and kidneys.