Originally Posted By: Bob Lusk
... I worry about water quality all the time, especially during the hottest months. This lake is collecting way too many nutrients. We monitor water chemistry bi-monthly, and nitrites continue to rise...until we add tilapia....


Just a thought..Could it be that hot weather reduces the resident fish's appetites for pellets and the now excess pellets cause the nitrite levels to rise at a rate that the nitrobacter bacteria just can't keep up? Could the Tilapia stocked during this hot time be eating the otherwise wasted pellets and partially reducing the nutrient load to the nitrogen cycle process by turning some of those nutrients into flesh and enabling the nitrobacter bacteria colony to catch up?

Last edited by Bill D.; 01/30/17 09:36 PM.
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