robonski15: I had to seek help from other farmers, but every farm I went to I noticed they where all also running at loss.. That was when I decided heading to songhai farms at benin repurblic.. At songhai I learnt all what I was suppose to know concerning fish farming, from how to hatch( spawning) to management, feed formulation and what have u..

I came back full of wisdom and found out what I did and did not do for for the failure of my farm.. First off if you have never started hatching on your own,my brother u have not started yet..so I carefully built my own hatching ponds and with what I learnt I gave it a shot and it was successful, I nurtured them to fingerlings stage and I got over THIRTEEN THOUSAND FINGERLING at my first try..

I selected the best 4000 fingerlings for stocking for the next 5 months and sold the rest.. Dis is one aspect for the failure of fish farmers.. Most hatchery selects the best (shooters)for themselves and sell runts to farmers, And we constantly feed these runts without attaining a reasonable wieght thereby loosing our hard earned money and waste our precious time..
IDENTIFYING RUNTS AS FINGERLINGS

If u still buy fingerlings from other farms please my brother follow the guidelines below so your investment does not go down the drain..

1. Only buy fingerlings from recommended farms, especially those who specialise in the production of fingerlings and juvenile..

2. Runts head seems to be whitish in colour, their body is thinner and is not proportionate in size to the head,they are like unfed children..

3. Buy fingerlings or juveniles only from farms who use male and female fishes (brood stock) equal to or above 1.5kg..

To be continued..

jites: where is the rest of the pages, or have i missed sopmething here?

excelsiorfarm: hmmmm

pharmzy: I really appreciate what's going on here. Robonski, excelsior , abx1 and others have been so wonderful. Kudos!!!!!!
Please I'm new into FISH FARMING and after trying unsuccessfully to hatch, I've finally succeeded. My fries are currently 3 wks old today.I'll like to know when I'm supposed to start sorting them and if I'm supposed to be using some vitamin now when feeding them. Thanks

T bagwell: Nice to be back, I just hope we wld be able 2 recover all dat has been lost? (info)

drizzydrag: @OP, U hav really enlighten and educate
many of us dat has vission of going into the
bussiness,God bless u. Pls I will like to know
proceedure for D songhai traning, cost n the
duration It took you, or can some1 enroll as a
trainee in ur farm cos I really wnt to undergo
practical training before going into thE
businessa. I wiil be going for service dis coming August and I will like to start my fishing business any moment frm September or October where ever am being posted to buh am hoping to be posted to Lagos sha by God grace. Here is my Email drizzydrag@gmail.com... Am a newbie to dis thread. I guess I've missed alot especially, due to dis Nairaland blackout.

Belexy:

Nairaland had issues and alot of pages have been lost.

jites:

OH MY DAYS!!!! from 200 plus pages to 73, nah nah this is not on, this is intellectual property the host should be able to recover the other pages somehow, In this modern world there must be a way to recover them. This incident has given us all the more reason to to utilised our site more agricnetwork.com, so when this nairaland crashes again we would still be able to exchange ideas through our site without wahala.
The top is where we all belong, see you there !!

robonski15:

Hello sir, where is your location? we have farmers on this thread at different locations who can train you..

jites:

OH MY DAYS!!!! from 200 plus pages to 73, nah nah this is not on, this is intellectual property the host should be able to recover the other pages somehow, In this modern world there must be a way to recover them. This incident has given us all the more reason to to utilised our site more agricnetwork.com, so when this nairaland crashes again we would still be able to exchange ideas through our site without wahala.
The top is where we all belong, see you there !!

miqos02: if nairaland can crash despite the owner's knowledge of web development/programming, be rest assured that it can happen to any website including agric network

drizzydrag:
I reside in Abuja...

Belexy: Glad nairaland is back.

velly001: wc syd

tobbyte: If anybody is in need of good fingerlings he/she should contact me on 08061145223...
I stay in lagos.

pharmzy: @ robonski. Thanks for the prompt response. I'm currently feeding them with 0.5-0.8mm ( coppens). please when can I switch to 1mm and when do I start sorting and how often. thank sir