Slightly off topic:
Presumably the water in the truck stocking the tilapia is warmer than the pond water.
What is the procedure to release fish (any type) where the water in the tanks is at a different temperature than the water in the pond?
I have not seen a chart in the archives of the acceptable temperature difference for different species of fish. Does such a chart exist, or is there a rule of thumb that covers all of the most common species?
Thanks,
FishinRod
Rod, this is part of the reason I used several buckets and a dipnet for each bucket when we seined fish at snrub's..
If you remember we used the tub with salt solution with pond water and a very small amount of well water to drop a few degrees. The freshwater bucket had well water that set in the black bucket that was yet ever so slightly cooler than salt solution. From there we went into the tank with pure well water. Using different nets and buckets was for 2 reasons, 1, to temper fish, 2, to not introduce ANS.
