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<blockquote data-quote="Phillydog1958" data-source="post: 145742" data-attributes="member: 8704"><p>Yea, I feed my fish frozen tilapia, cut up. I think they're African. I know that there are several species kept in aquaria . . . I might be wrong, but . . . [h=1]Tilapia[/h]<span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'sans-serif'">From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'sans-serif'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'sans-serif'"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilapia#mw-navigation" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilapia#mw-navigation</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilapia#p-search" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilapia#p-search</a></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'sans-serif'"><em>This article is about the fish that fall under the term <em>tilapia in common usage. For species belonging to the genus Tilapia, see <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilapia_(genus)" target="_blank">Tilapia (genus)</a>.</em></em></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'sans-serif'"><em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Oreochromis-niloticus-Nairobi.JPG" target="_blank"><img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/Oreochromis-niloticus-Nairobi.JPG/260px-Oreochromis-niloticus-Nairobi.JPG" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></em></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'sans-serif'"><p style="text-align: center"><em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oreochromis_niloticus" target="_blank">Nile tilapia</a>, <em>Oreochromis niloticus</em></em></p> </p></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'sans-serif'"><em><em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tilapia_production_time_series.png" target="_blank"><img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Tilapia_production_time_series.png/260px-Tilapia_production_time_series.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></em></em></span></span></p><p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'sans-serif'"><p style="text-align: center"><em><em>Global harvest of tilapia in million tonnes as reported by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAO" target="_blank">FAO</a>, 1950–2009[SUP]<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilapia#cite_note-faostat-1" target="_blank">[1]</a>[/SUP]</em></em></p> </p></p> <p style="text-align: center"></p></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'sans-serif'"></p><p></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'sans-serif'"><em><em><strong>Tilapia</strong> (pron.: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English" target="_blank">/</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key" target="_blank">t</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key" target="_blank">ɨ</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key" target="_blank">ˈ</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key" target="_blank">l</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key" target="_blank">ɑː</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key" target="_blank">p</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key" target="_blank">i</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key" target="_blank">ə</a><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English" target="_blank">/</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Pronunciation_respelling_key" target="_blank"><em>ti-<strong>la</strong>-pee-ə</em></a>) is the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_name#Biological_common_names" target="_blank">common name</a> for nearly a hundred <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species" target="_blank">species</a> of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cichlid" target="_blank">cichlid</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish" target="_blank">fish</a> from the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilapiine_cichlid" target="_blank">tilapiine cichlid</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribe_(biology)" target="_blank">tribe</a>. Tilapia are mainly freshwater fish, inhabiting shallow streams, ponds, rivers and lakes, and less commonly found living in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brackish_water" target="_blank">brackish water</a>. Historically, they have been of major importance in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artisan_fishing" target="_blank">artisan fishing</a> in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa" target="_blank">Africa</a> and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levant" target="_blank">Levant</a>, and are of increasing <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquaculture_of_tilapia" target="_blank">importance in aquaculture</a>. Tilapia can become problematic <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasive_species" target="_blank">invasive species</a> in new warm-water habitats, whether deliberately or accidentally <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introduced_species" target="_blank">introduced</a>, but generally not in temperate climates due to their inability to survive in cooler waters below about 21 °C (70 °F).</em></em></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'sans-serif'"><em><em></em></em></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'sans-serif'"><em><em></em></em>[h=3]Aquarium species[/h]Larger tilapia species are generally poor community <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquarium" target="_blank">aquarium</a> fish because they eat plants, dig up the bottom, and fight with other fish. However, the larger species are often raised in aquariums as a food source, because they grow rapidly and tolerate high stocking densities and poor water quality.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'sans-serif'">Smaller West <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African" target="_blank">African</a> species, such as <em>Tilapia joka</em> and species from the crater lakes of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cameroon" target="_blank">Cameroon</a>, are more popular. In specialised <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cichlid" target="_blank">cichlid</a> aquaria, tilapia can be mixed successfully with nonterritorial cichlids, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callichthyidae" target="_blank">armored catfish</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbus_schwanefeldi" target="_blank">tinfoil barbs</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garpike" target="_blank">garpike</a> and other robust and dangerous fish. Some species, including <em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilapia_buttikoferi" target="_blank">Tilapia buttikoferi</a></em>, <em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilapia_rendalli" target="_blank">Tilapia rendalli</a></em>,<em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilapia_mariae" target="_blank">Tilapia mariae</a></em>, <em>Tilapia joka</em> and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brackish" target="_blank">brackish</a>-water<em><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarotherodon" target="_blank">Sarotherodon melanotheron melanotheron</a></em>, have attractive patterns and are quite decorative.[SUP]<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilapia#cite_note-AC2008-15" target="_blank">[15]</a>[/SUP]</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'sans-serif'"> <table style='width: 100%'><tr><td>This article is<br /> one of a series on</td></tr><tr><th>Commercial fish</th></tr><tr><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Blue_walleye.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/Blue_walleye.jpg/75px-Blue_walleye.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a><br /> <br /> </td></tr><tr><th><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predator_fish" target="_blank">Large pelagic</a></th></tr><tr><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billfish#Species" target="_blank">billfish</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonito#Species" target="_blank">bonito</a><br /> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mackerel#Species" target="_blank">mackerel</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salmon#Species" target="_blank">salmon</a><br /> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shark" target="_blank">shark</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuna#Species" target="_blank">tuna</a></td></tr><tr><td> <hr /> </td></tr><tr><th><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forage_fish" target="_blank">Forage</a></th></tr><tr><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchovy#Species" target="_blank">anchovy</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herring#Species" target="_blank">herring</a><br /> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menhaden#Species" target="_blank">menhaden</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sardine#Species" target="_blank">sardine</a><br /> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shad#Species" target="_blank">shad</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprat#Species" target="_blank">sprat</a></td></tr><tr><td> <hr /> </td></tr><tr><th><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demersal_fish" target="_blank">Demersal</a></th></tr><tr><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cod#Species" target="_blank">cod</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eel" target="_blank">eel</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatfish#Species" target="_blank">flatfish</a><br /> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollock#Species" target="_blank">pollock</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batoidea" target="_blank">ray</a> <hr /> </td></tr><tr><th>Mixed</th></tr><tr><td><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carp#Species" target="_blank">carp</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilapia#Species" target="_blank">tilapia</a></td></tr></table><p></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'sans-serif'">[h=3][<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tilapia&action=edit&section=7" target="_blank">edit</a>][/h]</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'sans-serif'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'sans-serif'"></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Phillydog1958, post: 145742, member: 8704"] Yea, I feed my fish frozen tilapia, cut up. I think they're African. I know that there are several species kept in aquaria . . . I might be wrong, but . . . [h=1]Tilapia[/h][COLOR=#000000][FONT=sans-serif]From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [COLOR=#7D7D7D][/COLOR] [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilapia#mw-navigation"][/URL][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilapia#p-search"][/URL] [I]This article is about the fish that fall under the term [I]tilapia in common usage. For species belonging to the genus Tilapia, see [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilapia_(genus)"]Tilapia (genus)[/URL].[/I][/I] [CENTER][I][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Oreochromis-niloticus-Nairobi.JPG"][IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/Oreochromis-niloticus-Nairobi.JPG/260px-Oreochromis-niloticus-Nairobi.JPG[/IMG][/URL][/I] [LEFT][CENTER][I][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oreochromis_niloticus"]Nile tilapia[/URL], [I]Oreochromis niloticus[/I][/I][/CENTER] [/LEFT] [I][I][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tilapia_production_time_series.png"][IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Tilapia_production_time_series.png/260px-Tilapia_production_time_series.png[/IMG][/URL][/I][/I] [LEFT][CENTER][I][I]Global harvest of tilapia in million tonnes as reported by the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAO"]FAO[/URL], 1950–2009[SUP][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilapia#cite_note-faostat-1"][1][/URL][/SUP][/I][/I][/CENTER] [/LEFT] [/CENTER] [I][I][B]Tilapia[/B] (pron.: [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English"]/[/URL][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key"]t[/URL][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key"]ɨ[/URL][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key"]ˈ[/URL][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key"]l[/URL][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key"]ɑː[/URL][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key"]p[/URL][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key"]i[/URL][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English#Key"]ə[/URL][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA_for_English"]/[/URL] [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Pronunciation_respelling_key"][I]ti-[B]la[/B]-pee-ə[/I][/URL]) is the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_name#Biological_common_names"]common name[/URL] for nearly a hundred [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species"]species[/URL] of [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cichlid"]cichlid[/URL] [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish"]fish[/URL] from the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilapiine_cichlid"]tilapiine cichlid[/URL] [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribe_(biology)"]tribe[/URL]. Tilapia are mainly freshwater fish, inhabiting shallow streams, ponds, rivers and lakes, and less commonly found living in [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brackish_water"]brackish water[/URL]. Historically, they have been of major importance in [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artisan_fishing"]artisan fishing[/URL] in [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa"]Africa[/URL] and the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levant"]Levant[/URL], and are of increasing [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquaculture_of_tilapia"]importance in aquaculture[/URL]. Tilapia can become problematic [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasive_species"]invasive species[/URL] in new warm-water habitats, whether deliberately or accidentally [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introduced_species"]introduced[/URL], but generally not in temperate climates due to their inability to survive in cooler waters below about 21 °C (70 °F). [/I][/I][h=3]Aquarium species[/h]Larger tilapia species are generally poor community [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquarium"]aquarium[/URL] fish because they eat plants, dig up the bottom, and fight with other fish. However, the larger species are often raised in aquariums as a food source, because they grow rapidly and tolerate high stocking densities and poor water quality. Smaller West [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African"]African[/URL] species, such as [I]Tilapia joka[/I] and species from the crater lakes of [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cameroon"]Cameroon[/URL], are more popular. In specialised [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cichlid"]cichlid[/URL] aquaria, tilapia can be mixed successfully with nonterritorial cichlids, [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callichthyidae"]armored catfish[/URL], [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbus_schwanefeldi"]tinfoil barbs[/URL], [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garpike"]garpike[/URL] and other robust and dangerous fish. Some species, including [I][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilapia_buttikoferi"]Tilapia buttikoferi[/URL][/I], [I][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilapia_rendalli"]Tilapia rendalli[/URL][/I],[I][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilapia_mariae"]Tilapia mariae[/URL][/I], [I]Tilapia joka[/I] and the [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brackish"]brackish[/URL]-water[I][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarotherodon"]Sarotherodon melanotheron melanotheron[/URL][/I], have attractive patterns and are quite decorative.[SUP][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilapia#cite_note-AC2008-15"][15][/URL][/SUP] [TABLE="class: infobox"] [TR] [TD]This article is one of a series on[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TH="bgcolor: #CCCCFF"]Commercial fish[/TH] [/TR] [TR] [TD][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Blue_walleye.jpg"][IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bb/Blue_walleye.jpg/75px-Blue_walleye.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TH][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predator_fish"]Large pelagic[/URL][/TH] [/TR] [TR] [TD][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billfish#Species"]billfish[/URL], [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonito#Species"]bonito[/URL] [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mackerel#Species"]mackerel[/URL], [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salmon#Species"]salmon[/URL] [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shark"]shark[/URL], [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuna#Species"]tuna[/URL][/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD][HR][/HR][/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TH][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forage_fish"]Forage[/URL][/TH] [/TR] [TR] [TD][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchovy#Species"]anchovy[/URL], [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herring#Species"]herring[/URL] [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menhaden#Species"]menhaden[/URL], [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sardine#Species"]sardine[/URL] [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shad#Species"]shad[/URL], [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprat#Species"]sprat[/URL][/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD][HR][/HR][/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TH][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demersal_fish"]Demersal[/URL][/TH] [/TR] [TR] [TD][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cod#Species"]cod[/URL], [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eel"]eel[/URL], [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatfish#Species"]flatfish[/URL] [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollock#Species"]pollock[/URL], [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batoidea"]ray[/URL][HR][/HR][/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TH]Mixed[/TH] [/TR] [TR] [TD][URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carp#Species"]carp[/URL], [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilapia#Species"]tilapia[/URL][/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] [h=3][[URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tilapia&action=edit§ion=7"]edit[/URL]][/h] [/FONT][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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