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Ok, tilapia in ponds.
Plus: they are cheap. They make GREAT bass forage. Once mature (six inches or less, 4 months old or so), they will reproduce like mad, if circumstances are good. Like 1,500 every 25 days or so. They will winter kill in most of Texas, which is actually a good thing. You never have to worry about overcrowding your ponds with forage fish -- they just disappear every winter. A lot of the bass clubs are using tilapia -- also for the extra benefit of vegetation control. But mostly because they make an excellent, EXCELLENT bass forage. Until about a decade ago, I used to send a couple of truckloads of tilapia to Texas every Spring for pond management purposes. FWIW, most commercial tilapia are raised in monosex male populations, if you buy them for ponds make darn sure they are natural, mixed sex populations, or you're pee'n in the wind...
The holy grail is to combine the tilapia with White Amur ( grass carp). Do pony up for the sterile carp, or you'll have sixteen gazillion of them at some point. Both tilapia and White Amur are fine table fare, with the carp being the better of the two. The carp will winter, I have had some that were 20 years old and big enough to put a saddle on...
Anyway, the grass carp target the macrophytes, the larger rooted and "hard" plants. The tilapia will eat, well, everything else. They aren't quite filter feeders, but they will forage on very, very small plants. They need some higher quality protein to thrive (and bugs and assorted other animal protein sources, including higher order algae will do the job). They will keep things clean.
Lower lethal temperature for Nile Tilapia is about 13C for any duration, so once water temps get into the 40's you can start making plans to restock.