09-28-2010, 04:12 PM
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"Sjoberg pinpoints problems such as the species' high reproductive rate, aggressive behavior, predation on the young of other types of fish, and ability to scour all of the vegetation that affects cover and habitat quality for other fish....
There are a couple of things we have learned about tilapia where the information out there is wrong," he says. They are not just herbivorous. They are aggressive predators of young life stages of all species of other fish, based on gut-content analysis of tilapia collected from the Muddy River. They also have a much broader temperature tolerance than the published information indicated, as shown by their ability to persist in Lake Mead under cool water conditions."
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"Sjoberg pinpoints problems such as the species' high reproductive rate, aggressive behavior, predation on the young of other types of fish, and ability to scour all of the vegetation that affects cover and habitat quality for other fish....
There are a couple of things we have learned about tilapia where the information out there is wrong," he says. They are not just herbivorous. They are aggressive predators of young life stages of all species of other fish, based on gut-content analysis of tilapia collected from the Muddy River. They also have a much broader temperature tolerance than the published information indicated, as shown by their ability to persist in Lake Mead under cool water conditions."
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