The Blues won't be very effecient at that temp, just like any other fish, they eat the most when they are in water temp that is optimized for them. They really, really like 80�F water. It's not just the stockers that do the work, after a few months there are a huge amount of baby tilapia chowing down on the algae too, providing there aren't a ton of predators in the pond.


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