Originally Posted by Rainman
Originally Posted by Blue Raiser Bob
Originally Posted by esshup
Your water clarity is compounding the issue. Once the water warms up, is Tilapia an option for you in Tennessee?
Tilapia is really not an option because I have several good size LM Bass. Our winter temperatures would cause a winterkill as well.
Thanks

Tilapia are supposed to die each winter, and will create more forage and growth in your bass than you might realize. You can't produce more forage for bass than with tilapia...and they are legal in TN

Then I would use Tilapia for algae control in the OP's pond. They help with the algae problem in two ways. 1) actually eating the algae and 2) utilizing the nutrients to grow, and when they die off in the Fall, they are removed from the pond by either the pond owner or by scavengers, and by doing that the nutrients are being removed from the pond.

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