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With our pond level down due to rain shortages this spring, the concentration of lime in our pond is up and it seems to cause more muskgrass (Chara). I put Tilapia in earlier this season and they promptly cleaned up most of the FA, but now I see the muskgrass popping up all throughout the pond. Will Tilapia eat muskgrass?
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Tilapia, at least pure blue tilapia will eat Chara - aka muskgrass - some have witnessed them actually eating it. If you had enough tilapia they would clean out the pond of chara. Variables amount of Chara, number of tilapia, and water temperature.
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Bill:
Does it matter whether the Chara is newly grown or old? Here in the hard water lakes, the Chara gets a pretty hard covering on it, almost brittle.
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scott, what I have seen is the Blue Tilapia eat the chara from the top down and after FA is relatively scarce.
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The hard covering on Chara is precipitated calcium carbonate a common occurrence in high hardness water - high concentrations of lime in the water.
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