Tilapia Research Experiment - 01/31/09 07:33 PM
Anyone in northern climes interested in seeing what Tilapia will do to green string algae (aka filamentous)up north here in the north (Northeastern Indiana) vs. down south? If my hunch is correct they may be a biological control for "pond scum" up here as they are down south, and if used in conjunction with Grass Carp for certain macrophytes could preclude the use of chemicals?
I will drain and refill a pond this spring up here in northern Indiana, and if it's par for the course I will get quite a bloom of filamentous algae initially before the macrophytes -- chiefly Chara take hold.
I'm going to get some Talapia from Rainman via air at some point this spring, put them in an RAS temporarily to get them up to size to escape predation, and then plant them at say 25 lbs. per acre.
They won't have to be too large as the pond will only have male bluegill and yellow perch in it. No bass.
Only thing that may not be comparable to many of your ponds is there won't be much predation to keep their numbers down due to the lack of bass. I'm thinking in this case I may want to use males only?
Thoughts?
Ryan Freeze? Theo?
I will drain and refill a pond this spring up here in northern Indiana, and if it's par for the course I will get quite a bloom of filamentous algae initially before the macrophytes -- chiefly Chara take hold.
I'm going to get some Talapia from Rainman via air at some point this spring, put them in an RAS temporarily to get them up to size to escape predation, and then plant them at say 25 lbs. per acre.
They won't have to be too large as the pond will only have male bluegill and yellow perch in it. No bass.
Only thing that may not be comparable to many of your ponds is there won't be much predation to keep their numbers down due to the lack of bass. I'm thinking in this case I may want to use males only?
Thoughts?
Ryan Freeze? Theo?