A review of the physiology and biology of Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus)

Tilapia is the name of a group cichlid fish living in Africa that last half century, aquaculture tropics and subtropics have begun to breed. Cultivated species tilapia can usually be distinguished from each other by different patterns strips on tail fin. Nile brightly colored stripes their fins adult male gray or pink pigments throat. These Species are more resistant hypoxia, high salinity, temperatures, levels ammonia breeding water than freshwater farmed species.