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

In my experience over the past 10+ years stocking Tilapia, its an all or nothing thing. Stock enough per surface acre to eat it all or save your $$ on Tilapia and spend it on Cutrine Plus. You don't want the stocker Tilapia to be eaten, you want them to spawn and the little ones can work on the FA and become food sources themselves.

People that don't listen invariably the next year say "I'm not going to stock them this year, I put some in last year and they didn't do what they were supposed to do." I've already told people this year that we wouldn't sell them Tilapia if they didn't want to listen to our recommendations, because we don't want people to give us a bad reputation. "We bought tilapia from them but they didn't work." They tend to forget that they didn't listen to our recommendations and didn't stock enough, so we are taking a different approach this year to limit any "bad reviews" that would be associated with us.