Tilapia is not a trash-eating fish.

Tilapia is an omnivorous fish, not a fish that eats garbage, mainly feeds on roots, branches and leaves of aquatic plants, fruits, debris, etc., and also ingests zooplankton, aquatic insects, crustaceans, animal carcasses, and other animal food, and most of the digestive tract contents under artificial culture conditions are organic debris and other plant feeds, followed by phytoplankton, and lastly, zooplankton , water earthworms, rocking mosquito larvae and so on.

Introduction of tilapia

Tilapia is commonly known as the African carp, Fusiliers, belonging to the family of snapper tropical fish. Tilapia is native to Lake Tanganyika in Africa, similar in appearance to the crucian carp, fins spiny, resembling Mandarin fish. Fusiliers are broadly saline fish that can survive in both seawater and freshwater.

It is highly adaptable to low-oxygen environments, with excellent adaptability and strong reproduction. Due to the advantages of more meat and less thorns, rapid growth, etc., China introduced in the 1980s to promote large-scale breeding, is now mainly distributed in the southern region of China.

The existing tilapia in China are mainly divided into two categories, one of which is the original seabream tilapia, also known as wild tilapia or sun tilapia. This kind of tilapia maintains many characteristics of the primitive snapper, such as the colorful patterns and colors on the body, and the wild and aggressive life habits, and so on. This type of sunfish has certain requirements for water quality and environment, and is commonly found in various large reservoirs and rivers and ponds.

The sunfish is basically wild and reproduces rapidly, making it easy to flood the area. Generally, the individual is not big, the adult fish individual 50-100 grams, the largest individual is generally less than 500 grams, belongs to the small fish.