To obtain high quality seeds and seedlings of many fries, a good tilapia parent management should be emphasized. Good management will involve the selection of parent breeds quality, maintain proper holding, feeding schedule and food quality is good and effective system of care. Tilapia parent can be kept in ponds, cement pools, fibre-glass tanks, ‘hapa’ and floating cages. Male and female parent should be kept separate to avoid mating with each other.

Rectangle-shaped pond can be used to protect the parent tilapia. The appropriate size is 300 - 1000 square meters. Placing rate is holding 3 tilapia parents per meter square area of pool. Floating pellets containing 40% protein is appropriate to preserve the plants holding. Little vitamin B, vitamin C or vitamin E with the rate of 500 mg / kg of food added to food by dissolving vitamins and food to soak in the solution. Feeding rate is 4 percent of body weight. Food is given twice a day. Farmers need to make sampling to determine the amount of pellets needed each day. Red tilapia fish breed naturally. Tilapia fish cannot be propagated by induction because this fish has a low fecundity the female parent and male parent has a sperm transparent and difficult to detect or identify.