Ah, ha. Interesting piece of data BrianH. Thanks.
I have expected that would happen but wanted to test it out to be sure. Kind of tells me there may be an upper bound to the stocking rates, which is something I have suspected. Stocking levels at "too high" and "too large" may actually be detrimental to your BG and LMB fry...that is something I have hypothesized and suspected but haven't proven yet. The level of "too high" is certainly yet to be determined, if, in fact, it even exists....like you said, if they have nothing else to eat, then the Gams and maybe even other small fry may look as good as algae to a hungry Tilapia. One thing about Tilapia is they will find a way...some day, maybe decades or centuries away, they will survive 55 degrees and then 50 degrees, I predict.
BrianH, have you tried the same thing with Pacu?
