Pond Boss Forums STOCKING A NEW POND Types of fish to choose Tilapia Mozambique

I think the benefits of tilapia would be to an extent wasted during the first year bass are stocked - the LMB will be small and can chow down on FHM. Also, you are less likely to have large concentrations of algae (for the tilapia to eat/that would be unsightly) in a brand new pond.

I know TFS are much more likely to NOT be eliminated by predation than FHM (it's a virtual certainty that the FHM will be gone in a year or two), and that they will survive lower water temps than the tilapia (IIRC 42 deg for TFS vs. 55 deg for tilapia). I have gotten the impression that a population of TFS can be much harder to establish than tilapia.