Originally posted by heronblu:
... but what if he quits taking my calls?
Lou
Lou,
You may be a candidate for a redneck aquaculture system
That way you don't have to depend on anyone but yourself for your Tilapia.
A couple of factors I've observed after several years with Tilapia:
1) artificial feeding makes a huge difference in the degree of algae control you get with Tilapia....I have proven, to myself if no one else, that 5 pounds per acre in a no artificial feeding pond is equivalent to 10 to 15 pounds per acre in an artificial feeding pond, again in terms of algae control. Science also backs up this finding. In my indoor system, I am purposely NOT feeding floating pellets, but feeding sinking food to the fish that I am training to be future pond cleaners.
2) there is a cumulative effect of multiple years of stocking Tilapia on algae control. I began noticing that effect after two years of Tilpia stocking. I noticed that even in early spring, without Tilapia, I no longer was seeing the big mats of bottom algae and no longer needed early season chemicals to control algae before Tilapia stocking. It just wasn't there anymore. I attribute that to Tilapia even though they weren't even in the ponds when this normally happened.
