Tilapia is also called "African Carp", "Vietnamese Fish", "Fukushu Fish", "Golden Phoenix Fish It is also called "African Carp", "Vietnamese Fish", "Blessed Fish", "Golden Phoenix Fish", etc. It refers to the fish in the genus Tilapia in the order Perch of the class Perissodactyla.

The body of this fish is flat and also relatively tall. They have a prominent feature of a dozen or so relatively sharp spines on their dorsal fins and a more rounded tail. They have some stripes on the sides of their body and quite a few spots. Tilapia is a fish that is native to the African region, and since they are tropical, they have a high water temperature requirement and generally live in low latitudes.

Tilapia is a kind of freshwater fish that originally lived in the freshwater basins of Africa, and then it was introduced to freshwater basins elsewhere, and it is also found in the freshwater of our country.

Life habits of tilapia

Tilapia inhabits the lower and middle layers, and is an omnivorous fish that feeds mainly on plant bait. Tilapia do not tolerate low temperatures and will freeze to death at water temperatures of around 10°C. Some species of tilapia engage in mouth hatching, in which females hold fertilized eggs in their mouths until they hatch into young, and this nursery behavior is very beneficial to their reproduction. In some species of tilapia, before reproduction, the male will dig the subsoil to build a pot-shaped nest, which has a strong domain, and the female will lay the eggs in the nest, and then the female will protect the young in her mouth after hatching.

Tilapia has the advantages of fast growth, wide diet, strong reproduction, few diseases, good meat quality and high yield. The tilapia raised in China are tilapia genus Qi's tilapia, broom-toothed tilapia genus Nile tilapia, Mozambique tilapia, yellow-bordered black tilapia, Orillia tilapia and so on.