Awesome! Thanks guys! He noticed them in 2 connecting ponds that are by the public library. Do you think they will be able to survive the temperature changes?
Pic of cichlid breeding in Fla pond. ID?!
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They are pretty resiliant so theres a chance they may survive but I am not 100% sure. What else is in the pond and will anyone mind if they become established there? I would catch it out and keep it in a tank if it was me 
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.blue tilapia. those fish r so annoying. they hardly ever eat ur bait and they fight like pansys.
Most all the tilapia we have here in Floridaare vegans... you can aggrevate them to attack a hook by dragging it thru their nest ( that hole thay dig ). Its fun to watch the tourist who see them, then run to get a pole and two hours later still haven't gotten anything. At one time they were brought in by the authorities as competition for our bass fishing. Only problem was they imported the WRONG ones ( most of that story has been erased from history )... the vegans exploded with all our flora. These things are usually 10-14 inchesand are edible by boney and muddy tasteing, the farm raised ones are delish thu. If there is a foot of water around there are probably talapias in it. At my daughter condo there are hundreds in each of their ponds ( when put by a condo its a pond or a lake here, storm drainage areas to the rest of us ). Its really fun to feed them, I can go thru several loaves of bread and not tyre of it. The 80-90 turtles ( red eared sliders are 10-15 inches ) are fun to. Its the muscave ducks that get in the way. I started out with 2 a "friend" gave me (at the time they were illegal, $500 fine per fish, but I didn't find that out till later) (36 yrs ago) within three months I was an uncle of about one hundred little ones... incredibly interesting as they are mouth brooders. Some said they moved their gravel to the side of the tank... they were lucky, mine constantly moved the half to three-quarter inch gravel ( rocks ) around and would spit them out at the glass all night long. One redeaming quality of these fish was EVERY time my mother-in-law would go by the tank they would splash her !! and only her. I put them in a very large pond and after a year and a half had a sink hole open up by the pond and drain it. I found talapia in ther 18 - 21 inches long ! I never knew. I've got to try them again.
