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- From: vseaman@access.digex.com (Vanya Seaman)
- Newsgroups: rec.aquaria
- Subject: Re: Tilapia: Of any value to aquarists?
- Date: 26 Jan 1993 00:01:17 -0500
- Organization: Express Access Online Communications, Greenbelt, MD USA
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- >Concensus question: I have a number of medium-sized tilapia.
- >Are they of any value? Shouls I even consider talking to a shop
- >about giving them away? I'm running out of room and I've
- >got 1 male and 4 females (Spawn-o-rama), every week or so.
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- Tilapia. Yuck-o (I used to eat them, now I have to keep them).
- I work at a pet shop in Virginia (Yes as a fish person),
- and a guy walked in and gave us a pair of Tilapia mariae (not knowing
- yet the fish laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia), and being a
- for-profit organization, we eagerly grabbed them, and they spawned in
- the tank they were in together (a 45 G) with no nudge from us.
- Well, to make a short story even shorter, we've got a bunch
- tilapia fry that we can't sell, and really can't do much with.
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- Value? Sheesh. They're not that great of fish. If I were
- you, I'd get rid of them all. They're terrible fish.
-
- ha ha! I forgot to say that on my first day of work, in front of my
- boss, our resident male T. mariae BIT ME! It just jumped out of the
- tank and attached itself to my knee for a second... oh well.
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