Originally Posted by anthropic
Originally Posted by esshup
Bass love eating Tilapia.

I've always thought so, and have stocked accordingly. But not sure there's a lot of empirical evidence to back it up. Bob Lusk has said that BG yoy survival rates go up when TP are present, which is a plus, but that doesn't mean the bass are eating TP. Wish there were some research studies on the question!

Not hard scientific data, but if the LMB body condition stays the same, and there are more BG surviving, then what are the LMB eating if not the TP?

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