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Tracy, I've been doing the tilapia deal for 5-6 years now, and have never had a floater. I do have buddy that was a ranch foreman down by Eustace, and his boss stocked tilapia only one year, and they ALL died at once and floated after an extremely hard freeze. He said it looked like somebody had treated the pond with tilapia rotenone. The owner never stocked them again.
I guess I'm not sure how all this happens, and how the temperature's rate of change affects all this for fish. I do know that other creatures do float after several days, and it's most likely due to accumulated internal gases. Don't ask me how I know, it's icky.
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I have an army of turtles that are going to become obese.........
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Surface temp was 44 degrees this morning, and I reached in the cage and pulled this tilapia out by hand. Todd Overton had told me one time(paraphrasing) that the first freeze makes Mozambique tilapia stupid, and the next freeze whacks them. This fish was definitely in the stupid stage, so I would assume that my LMB are gorging right now. My LMB hand feeding is now officially over, and the rest were bagged and frozen for LMB Hors d'oeuvres later this winter. Here on my puddle, I'm comfortable saying if tilapia aren't toast today, they will be by morning. About a third of my caged tilapia had already bit the dust. All sank, none floated. Afterthought. Me and the goats hand fed my CNBG last night, and all the CNBG had already moved out to deeper water, and were feeding extremely lightly. I'll cut off my shallow water feeder, and cut my dam feeder to one late afternoon throw of 1 second later today.  Nice......thanks for the info!
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A pair of Osprey are feeding on tilapia this am. They must have gotten the memo, because it's been a few months since we've seen any.
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I walked around my pond yesterday to see if there were any dead tilapia. I couldn't find a fin, tail, head, nothing. There was plenty of hog sign so maybe the pigs were the clean up crew.
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My floating pier(attached to the shore) was loaded with poop piles. Poop had so many fish scales in it and made it hard for me to be certain what or who's poopen on my pier. Scales look like larger sized TP scales to me. Guessing poop belongs to coons but I am not a poop expert when I see so many fish scales in it. I have never seen that much large sized scaly poop. It could also be GBH poop. Looked to me like fish going In one place and out the next with the bird or animal taking few steps in between eating and pooping. pretty sure this is taking place at night.
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My floating pier(attached to the shore) was loaded with poop piles. speaking of poop... I found this near the cabin last weekend... anybody have a guess on what left this "gift" behind? 
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1.8 acre pond with CNBG, RES, HSB, and LMB
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Both coons and coyotes are omnivores. No telling what it is.
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It's not about the fish. It's about the pond. Take care of the pond and the fish will be fine. PB subscriber since before it was in color.
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Buzzards were lined up on the far bank today. Think they are cleaning up the leftovers.
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