Species combination in tilapia culture

Abstract

Preliminary determinations for the best species combination for the fastest rate of growth of Tilapia nilotica (Saro therodon niloticus) and T. zillii indicated that T. nilotica grew better (1.3 g/day) when raised with T. zillii (0.9 g/day) and common carp, Cyprinus carpio (3.2 g/day). In other non-replicated experiments involving T. nilotica and T. zillii only, growth rates of 1.0 g/day and 0.9 g/day were recorded respectively which bettered those observed in monoculture experiments, namely 0.8 g/day and 0.6 g/day respectively.