Originally Posted By: ewest
Originally Posted By: Fish Food
Originally Posted By: ewest

The immense variety of cultured finfish species hampers efforts to simplify production industry wide. Approximately 170 taxa are currently cultured, including carnivores, herbivores, planktivores, and omnivores, each posing its own set of nutritional demands .


Now we are getting somewhere.

Since this is a pond forum lets look at pond fish. Bass, Panfish, Catfish, Walleye and Tilapia come to mind. These are all warm water species. The only cold water species that I can think of is trout.

Bass, Panfish, and Walleye are carnivores.

Pond Catfish are omnivores.

Pond Tilapia are herbivores.


There are others
YP are cool water fish and are carnivores as ars Esox
HSB are warm water/ cool water carnivores but can use carbs better
Then there are all the forage fish like GS ,Shads , chubsuckers etc



Can you lump YP & Esox in with trout?
HSB & SB are warm water fish that tolerate cooler water better than the others.
The forage fish in ponds are primarily warm water fish.

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