? Tilapia originated in Africa and later distributed in other continents. There are also some tilapia living in China. Tilapia is an omnivorous fish and can eat a lot of food. Both wild tilapia and farmed tilapia can eat both plants and animals. Among the animals, small fish are one of the more important ones. Because tilapia is not particularly large, wild tilapia can only prey on animals smaller than themselves in the water. In fact, tilapia not only eat other kinds of fish, but also eat small fish of their own kind when food is very scarce.
When breeding tilapia, you can also give them small fish. In fact, there are many kinds of animal feed, including not only small fish, but also shrimp, earthworms, mealworms and so on, which are more suitable. However, the effect of only animal feed is not good. A large part of the food that wild tilapia eats in the water is plants. When breeding them, they can also cultivate more plants in the breeding pond. Tilapia is also interested in plants, which contain some nutrients that animal feed does not have.
? Tilapia can be cultured artificially. They can be monoculture or polyculture, but not all fish can be mixed with them. As mentioned above, tilapia may eat fish smaller than itself. Therefore, fish that are too small are not suitable to be placed with tilapia. In addition, when polyculturing two or more kinds of fish, their habits and characteristics should be fully considered, so that it is easier to regulate the surrounding environment. Tilapia has a very high demand for water temperature, so it is better to choose fish with similar habits to mix with them.
