WHAT TILAPIA EAT
THERE IS NOT ANY THING THAT A TILAPIA WILL NOT EAT OR AT LEAST TRY TO EAT. THIS INCLUDES ALMOST ALL "WASTE" FROM EVERY PLANT INCLUDING COTTON SEEDS, PALM HULLS, BREWERY WASTE, SUGAR CANE PULP AND ANY OTHER KIND OF ORGANIC WASTE INCLUDING ALL MANURES.
TILIPIA ALMOST EAT almost everything. If it is ORGANIC, IS IN THE WATER, THAT IS DECOMPOSING OR WELL PULVERISED AND GROUND UP A TILAPIA WILL EAT IT OR AT LEAST GIVE IT A good TRY.
One really strange thing that a that tilapia eats is pond sediment or "DEBRIS.” That is right, the bottom mud from a pond or river.
Here is a definition of Debris.
Debris - Wikipedia, the free encyclopaedia defines debris:
Debris is a word used to describe the remains of something that has been otherwise destroyed. Debris is pronounced with a silent s and a long e. The singular form of debris is debris.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debris “deee bree”What that means is that tilapia eat every thing that is organic, is non-toxic and that is any where in the water. On the water, or on any surface in the water such as a rocks surface or the surface of a leaf or any wood. They have teeth that are evolved to scrape anything off a surface and their gills are evolved to filter small particles of algae bacteria or viruses that are one or two microns in sieve. This means that very small things are filtered out o the water and sent in a stream down its throat. When a tilapia is just sucking in water and expelling it out of it's gills it is filtering algae and other organisms out of the water and is feeding on them.
Generally algae and fungus often grow and attach to any surface. As long as it is small enough to fit into the tilapias mouth a tilapia will probably eat it.
If it is already broken up by fungus, bacteria or any micro-organism to a reasonably fine level which means any organic or inorganic thing that is between two microns and 20 microns will be absorbed between its acidic stomach and its remarkably long intestine.
The acidity of the acid in tilapia’s stomach is the strongest measured in the animal world and breaks down astonishing things such as the cell wall in Diatoms, as they pass through the stomach. The hard shell of the diatom is used as a scrubbing agent. The acid in the stomach of the Tilapia dissolves this “shell.”
Tilapia also have had the ability to digest the debris from the bottom of a pond or waterway which proved that by volume tilapia were able to adsorb 70% or more of what would be deemed bottom mud. They just need to suck it in and 70% of the pertinacious compounds and hydrocarbons will disappear on the trip through the tilapia.
The government of Egypt used this extraordinary ability of the tilapia to eat the mud that was building up the river bed to save the Aswan Dam which was collecting Debris which fell out of the water before the damn.
This Debris was raising the bottom of the dam as much as six inches a year. At that rate the damn-damn would have to be dredged each year to avoid loosing the river.
When the tilapia were stocked the damn-damn’s bottom was rising 6 inches and within several years after the tilapia were stocked the sediment debris was shrinking by 5 inches so that not only had the tilapia saved the damn they were removing an additional six inches for a total of 12 inches of debris removed each year.
Nutrition
Please feel free to call me during normal Eastern daylight times. At this particular time I believe that I have more hands on experience in building , designing and running u-tubes to lower the cost and risk for growing all kinds of Aquaculture by 10% - 20% and the cost of dissolving oxygen in an intensive system by 50- 85%. The safety issue is by far the most important issue because having complete control over the oxygen level in a tank helps to assure he safety of the crop and the cost. Another area where I have extensive experience is on what is required to create new characteristics in a gene line.
We can take a tilapia that is black and turn it to a brilliant red or take a gene line and select for various body form changes or various internal genetics needed needed to manufacture certain expensive biochemical products..such as Heparin which is an important molecule in haemoglobin that plays a role in clotting blood. A good breeding and selection system could virtually increase the production of almost any biological chemical system in the tilapia.
Source: cherrysnapper
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