Tilapia can, do and will thrive upon eating certain kinds of poop. Chicken poop is best, but GUESS WHAT?

Fish farmers can no longer compete for chicken poop as feed/fertilizer because the CATTLE RANCHERS are willing to pay more for it to FEED THEIR COWS. So if you eat beef, you will be eating a different, but still "poop fed," animal.

There are more than 11 Genera and over 100 species of tilappine fishes, they include everything from filter feeders through plant eaters, omnivores, and predators. Most of what we see are from the Genus Oreochromis and includes the blue tilapia, the mossambique tilapia, the black tilapia, the Nile tilapia, a few others and their hybrids.