"Roy" wrote:

On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 22:58:40 GMT, Crashj
wrote:

===On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 13:47:38 -0700, San Diego Joe
===wrote:
===Under the heading of "Always Looking for Something New":
===So I went to a local pond shop today looking for yellow butterfly Koi.
They
===didn't have any, but did have some African Tilapia, which they said
would
===over winter here in San Diego. Does anyone happen to have any
experience
===with these guys?
===
===Excelent eating. Hungry little buggers.

From talking to folks here in Alabama they do not over winter too
good in Zone 8, and are marginal in zone 9, but the closer they are to
zone 9/10 they do fine. Don't have a clue as to what zone So Cal is in
but I would think its a lot warmer........
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We are zone 11, I think (I never use that system, but the Sunset Western
garden zones that divide the west into 24 zones). The guy at the store said
they were from a pond near San Diego. He said they weren't "too" aggressive
which I took to mean they won't take your hand off, but maybe I would need
to worry about the smaller goldfish. Tilapia are a variety of Cichlid, so
their aggressive behavior could be anywhere from benign to piranhaish.


San Diego Joe
4,000 - 5,000 Gallons.
Goldfish, a RES named Colombo and an Oscar.



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