>>4055268 (pb)
Re: Tilapia HRC email
Fatheranon and Brotheranon raise tilapia commercially.
Statements about the fish themselves are by and large accurate. Considered an invasive species in some places, but is common in fish farms because they reproduce well and grow quickly. Especially common for use in aquaponic set ups where there's a grow bed for growing various types of vegetables and using the fish water to feed the veggies, then veggies extract the nitrites for nutrition and it purifies the water so it can be recycled back into the fish tank.
The menu items are quite odd, most notably the tilapia cannoli for dessert. Tilapia is an inexpensive fish, whose main benefit is it doesn't taste real fishy, but it seems odd to me that anyone with $ would eat it instead of the more pricey types like salmon or even trout.
Warm water fish, 70-90 F. Will survive in water down to about 50 F, but no weight gain or reproduction at that temp. They're bottom feeders, so they'll eat anything pretty much, and can be cannibalistic if the fry (babies) don't have any place to hide and food is scarce.
Females lay eggs in sand nest on bottom, males fertilize, then females suck fertilized eggs in mouth to hold them until they hatch (females don't eat during this gestation period, I think it's maybe a week, sorry, don't recall). After they hatch, the female will let them out of her mouth from time to time, but then she brings them back in for protection.
I have no idea what the significance of all that tilapia talk was, but maybe something I gave you can shed light. It was extremely odd to have it in that email.