Pond Boss Forums AQUATIC VEGETATION Controlling unwanted plants Tilapia as a algae fighting tool

I prefer the 4"-6" with the smaller ones often are females and those 5"-7" are the males. Obviously mixed sex produces lots of small ones that are the algae eating army when there are thousands of them. Each one can eat just so much algae so the more algae you have the more fish that are needed. Experience shows that the more you can trim down the algae before the tilapia arrive the better and quicker the clean up becomes.