That doubled biomass excludes the weight or biomass of the Tilapia... I was not clear. That doubled biomass will be in the "normal" biomass Bass, BG, CC, etc). Tilapia are like adding a feeding program, aeration program and chemical eradication program...with edible tails and scales. Like when adding commercial feed and aeration, you will increase biomass...in turn, take those away (or Tilapia after about 3 years, and you will have a lot of starving fish and possible O2 crash await you. Do NOT consider the Tilapia as being one more species in your pond...think of Tilapia the same way you consider aeration, feed, or chemicals...The Tilapia are only temporary and add to the other species in the pnd, just in multiple ways.
Your SRAC fact sheet will be in high density commercial food fish production ponds that are definitely "fed" pellets and use multiple 50hp agitator paddle wheels...and at 17,000# per acre, probably with a raceway system too, in order to flush and concentrate waste into the center of the pond.
All the Tilapia do is take the tons of wasted nutrient (algea and detritus mostly) and convert it to an edible form for the other fish species....all other fish species will increase in numbers, length and weight when adding Tilapia...You still have to be the apex predator and remove those nutrients, by fishing a lot more
Last edited by Rainman; 07/05/18 02:32 PM.
