However, triploid tilapia culture
under farm condition for longer period or even manipulation of
feeding regimes have shown to influence growth in favor of the triploid
tilapia (Bramick et al., 1995). Hence, it is necessary for comparing the
growth performance of diploid and triploid tilapia, we have to consider
two different growth phases, before and after sexual maturity. This is
because triploids did not exceed the growth of the control fish stock
up to sexual maturity as observed from early studies (Mair, 1993).