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robonski15:
The long awaited super grow Catfish Feed

[b]Over the past months (5 months to be precise) I and Soft777 met in France and have been silently conducting an extensive research on a spectacular CATFISH FEED.. We made some vital discoveries there before moving to Holland and isreal respectively to obtain more intelligence to unravel how they produce some of their feeds.. After much exertion We have come up with a magnificent pure catfish feed.. The material are carefully sourced from readily and locally available ingredient ,that meet exactly or more all the necessary ingredients for catfish super grow with crude protein of 55 percent higher than all fish feed around and a FCR of 0.8..

We Will make use of a horizontal mixer which will enable us mix our ingredients properly and effectively..We can use the dry type fish feed extruder for best long time floating on water.

The cost of feed will be almost half the price of what is obtained outside because we will try as much as possible to eliminate all forms of external influences that will increase our source of ingredients, there by eliminating the problems of sourcing for ingredients and at the mercy of some feed millers..Due to its very low price our fish can be fed all through the cycle with our floating feed there getting better result and more profits.

Early next year we will commence full production of the feed as the feed mill construction has commenced.. But it will be only available for members of our new association which we aspire to kick off now..

We will be able to supply nationwide with sub sales outlet in different zones in Nigeria for member to access and benefit..

The floor is opened for questions.. Thanks[/b]

robonski15:
Hello sir all what you should know is on this thread.. Start reading from the first page and ask questions.. Thanks

robonski15:
REQUIREMENTS FOR A SUCCESSFUL CATFISH HATCHERY

A good fish hatchery operator seeks to produce high quality, fast growing fish seed using brood stock of known origins. This write up seeks to present ideas for consideration in locating, designing and
managing a small-scale fish hatchery.

Need for Specializations in Fry and Fingerling Production

[b]Everyone cannot do everything and most fish farmers may well be best at producing table sized fish for the market and leaving fish hatchery management up to those who are best prepared and equipped with the means for intensive fry production to meet demand. Presently there is a one stage fingerling production of catfish in Nigeria with
hatcheries carrying out induced spawning and rearing of fry and fingerings at the same farm facility. This calls
for much specialization at one facility and may have some advantages, but a more efficient approach may
involve a two-stage production as practiced in Asia.

There may be an opportunity to create a niche market for nursery rearing of fry to fingerlings as has occurred in other countries.Hatcheries could produce large quantities of fry, which are easily transported, over long distances, in very large numbers at 2-4 days of age, once the fry lose their yolk sac and start feeding. Several tens of thousands can be transported in a plastic bag with moralities at perhaps up to 20%, but this amount often dies in initial hatchery nursery production; the objective is massive transport around the country as this will make more fingerlings widely available and open up significant fish production outside of the South West, where most fish are presently produced.

Fry could thus be produced at hatcheries then transported to nurseries for rearing for another 5-6 weeks to a stocking size of 2-3 inches in length for producers. This would create three types of fish farms: 1) hatcheries, 2) fry rearing nurseries, and 3) fish production farms for table size fish. This diversification of production could allow more specialization and focus on doing one thing well and improve overall production, all the while creating more employment. Such“specialists producers” have contributed to making Asia the producer of 75% of all aquaculture produced
fish in the world.
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Requirements for a Successful Fish Hatchery

[b]1. Water - High quality, unpolluted water supply preferably with gravity flow water.Fish hatcheries require a year-round, unpolluted water supply. A backup water supply may be necessary in some areas as with a borehole. Water should be of good quality with a neutral pH of about 7 and water CaCO3 alkalinity and hardness of more than 25 ppm. Harder waters of 100 ppm or more are advantageous as they support
higher productivity. More alkaline and harder waters are well buffered and with their mineral and nutrient content, provide the best conditions for high fecundity, high hatching rates and survival and growth of fry and fingerlings. The best hatcheries use a filter system for water filtration before entering the fish hatchery tanks.
Some hatcheries use UV lights as sterilizers to kill bacteria circulating in their water supply. Water should be tested regularly for quality. A reliable water test kit should be on hand at any fish hatchery. Water chemistry parameters are presented for hatchery water supplies. If it is necessary to use well water, it should be stored i for a few days to drive off carbon dioxide, increase the oxygen and generally condition the water. Pumped waters should be filtered.
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Water Chemistry Values for Fish Hatcheries

• Oxygen………….. ……..5 ppm-saturation
• pH………………………. 6.5-8.0
• Carbon dioxide………….0-15 ppm
• Total CaCO3 Alkalinity… 50-400 ppm
• Total CaCO3 Hardness…...50-400 ppm
• Nitrate……………………. 0-3.0 ppm
• Magnesium……………… trace for buffer
• Hydrogen Sulfide……….. 0 ppm
• Iron-Total………………… 0-0.5 ppm
• Phosphorous……………… 0.01-3.0 ppm
• Temperature………………28-32oC




[b]2. Market - Being near a market with high demand for fish fingerlings.

3. Brood Fish - Have selected brood fish of known origins for fast growth, high dress out weight and quality control.

4. Water Chemistry Monitoring - Have the means to monitor and maintain good water chemistry at the hatchery.

5. Management - Be a good hatchery manager with qualified, trained staff and a Management Plan.

6. “Know your fish” - A good hatchery operator constantly observes his fish from hatching to fry to fingerlings to table size fish.
What is normal behavior for each stage of growth? How active are fish at different times during the day? What is their normal feeding
response? What is the hatching rate of eggs, what is the survival rate of fry?

7. Feeding of fish –- A good hatchery operator knows the feed requirements of each stage of fish production, from zooplankton, to
supplemental feeds.

8. Handling / Transporting Fish - Be experienced in conditioning and transporting fish with high survival rates.

9. Record Keeping - Maintain good record keeping for proper planning.

10. Business Plan - Have a business plan to assist in qualifying for bank loans.

11. Marketing Strategy – A good fish hatchery has a marketing strategy, which minimizes expenditures and maximizes income. A
good strategy includes a variety of clients or buyers of fish, not a limited few who may form a cartel for maintaining low prices to the hatchery operator. Remain upto date with market price is the key.[/b]

To be continued..

seskee:
Please house, how good are these 2 feeds AQUADANA FEEDS AND IDEAL FEEDS. Please your urgent response is needed.

@ all d gurus
Soft777
Robonski15
Chilanfarms
Juvefarms
Etc

soft777:
Due to the scarcity of fish oil ,i want to quickly tell u how to make ,your own fish oil .
Get some fresh fish the very cheap ones you can see in your locality, cut off the head and slice the stomach open to remove the intestine , its very important so the head or intestine will not cause the fish to rot before forming the oil.
Cut the fishes to small pieces and put them in a container like the small white plastic paint bucket , add small water to just cover
the fish top a little. Close the plastic , so that air can not get in , and look for any cloth like a towel to cover it ... Keep it in a cool dry place for 10days .
Open it, and you will discover a thick white layer on the water because oil and water does not mix, gently remove the oil from the water buy pouring it out into another jar and you have 100 percent fish oil with good raw fish smell . The more the fish ,the more the volume of fish oil and the used fish can be add to making your fish feed so nothing is a waste .
Now to increase your fish oil, you can add to every 1 liter fish oil, add one quarter vegetable oil and mix to give u more quantity ,
Advantages of fish oil , it serves as an attractant and its a source of oil and protein , it can almost totally replace or reduce the amount of costly fish meal used in your feed .
When you have low quality feed just spray fish oil on it , allow it to sun dry and bag. you will see how the fish will eat the feed they earlier rejected ..... other source of attractants are chicken intestine waste , cow and pig fats and hatchery waste eggs any of these can be used also .
i can explain how to convert most of them to strong fish attractant GOD BLESS

god4unn:
The price/piece can be negotiated at the point of sales. It depends on the fish pick to buy. Be assured it will be at a competitive price. Send your number or call if you are serious to do business

god4unn:
Table size fresh catfish for sales. The farm is located along IJOKO - LISA ROAD in Ifo LGA of Ogun State. The fish are very big and very healthy.
Buyers Needed (Wholesales and Retails). Contact 08107438683.
Call or send Watsapp msg.
Hurry while stocks last.
N520/Kg

lamude23:
I beg to disagree with u sir, clarias are more susceptible to diseases than hybrid as chillanfarm farm said Buh clarias grow faster (I mean they are early starter while hybrid takes a while before getting bigger) than hybrid while hybrid prefer fleshy feeds has they are more carnivorous than clarias to make them grow faster, dis is from my own experience and it might be d nature of my land, however both are good if u know their
advantages and disadvantages.

adegbem:
Question for the expert in the house, how many fingerings do I need to stock and what size of pond (concrete) do I construct to get an average harvest of 1000kg of table size fish (assuming good management and technical know how).. Please I would appreciate honest and practical answers thanks

SILLYO:
thank you for your reply. please the your email address

eseosa77:
If this is true why are people not going for hybrid instead of clarias

eseosa77:
Pls sir can you elaborate on the difference between the clarias and hybrid.their advantages and disadvantages,their growth rates,sizes and weight difference when fed for 5-6 months

SILLYO:
please i need guideline on how to start fish farming with small amount of money. there is land for now we are planning to start with 1000 fingerlings but we don't have borehole yet and pond can someone guide me with the cost of borehole and pond in ilorin

heartbitmi:
Pls guys I urgently need some post fingerlings and juvenile pls kindly drop a contact....tnx

heartbitmi:
Pls guys I urgently need some post fingerlings and juvenile pls kindly drop a contact....tnx

sholaojas:
Please I need a marketable business plan for fish farming to access loan. Robosky and other kindly help me out my email is ojajunishola@gmail.com.com

donnaheff:
Some people here are too lazy. They expect to get maxumum output with no input. I have read several tyms on this forum where people request others to write business plans for them. It is a known fact that only an enyerpreneur can write his business plan. No two business plans are similar. Business plans are written based on the exigencies prevalent at a place at a particular point in time. Business plans have to continuously be updated. In fish farming, the only help you can get is the technicalities. The business end is up to you. Please folks before you venture onto any business, be well aware of your market, your competitors, your suppliers, your competitive advantage, your business objectives your product, your operating environment and Government policies concerning the product, niche and industry. Good luck folks as you take on your entrepreneurial goal.

pumppie:
Current price of some feed materials as at today.(Agege abatoir Lagos).
1. Groundnut cake gnc 120/kg
2. Full fat soya 150
3 wheat offal 44
4. Soya bean meal sbm 130
5. Indomine 100
6. Bone meal 50
7. Fish meal(d) 72% 570
8. Fish meal (L)65% 370
9. Flour. 65
10. Maize 65
11. Pelleting / drying 24/ kg

soft777:
During my recent successful completion of my program in aquaponics in france . I was opportuned to say, my eyes have been well open to latest techniques of maximizing profit in all form of agric business ,
i was opportune to know on a practical bases that nothing in agriculture in fact the world is a waste . There is no such word existing anymore as a waste ,every waste can be recycled to something valuable .
Isreal is situated in a desert; but they grow and export crops that are originally ment for cold countries .Holland is a man made country , formed by adding sand rocks etc to form a country out of water, but still they grow and export crops that naturally grows in desert environment .All these means with the right knowledge most impossible things can be possible.
During my program ,one of my instructors ask how come west africa especially Nigeria with a vast land tropical and rain forest zone, with almost all year round sunshine and rain fall , still import almost every food and export less. He used these exact words that we are under utilizing our God own given potential.
Now to cut the long story short , its time we fish farmers add extra value to our production and maximize or utilize our farm to its full capacity . How do you feel to know that for a long time now in fish farming, we have been throwing or should i say flushing away valuable money, and we call it the polluted water in our pond so, we just flush it away . While in developed countries , farmers will kill to have that same polluted water at any price .How do you feel when you realize that you can make extra 30 to 100 thousand naira weekly , from that your polluted fish water , at almost no additional cost of production , no additional cost of land just your same pond with double products to sell at additional profit .......Well its not magic , this is called AQUAPONICS SYSTEM .
The name may sound so big, but its a very simple system, by which your waste fish water is converted to fertilizer, to grow your vegetables tomatoes pepper and lots of other crops , without additional land or soil . These crops can be grown in water as its medium.
Let me break it down , when your fish escret, that is when your fish poo , combines with uneaten feed forms amonia in your pond water, do u know that, this same amonia can be broken down to nitrites then further broken down to nitrates bywhat is called beneficial bacteria and fungai in another chamber .To most science oriented people its called the nitrogen cycle , but forget the grammar .It
is a very simple system which, even an old grand parent in the village can operate well, if taught the abc of it.
These processes occur naturally in nature ,it really do not need your assistance to function . Do u know installing this in your already functioning fish farm, does not cost more than just 20 thousand naira , and weekly you can harvest cucumber, strawberry gabbage, lettuce, tomatoes , pepper ugu leaves , pumpkin leave bitter leaves etc . A lot more crops can be planted with this system without the need of extra land and soil .
Now i and my team have device a great way to recycle this water, through this system , back to your fish pond ,by gravity ensuring your fish gets a very clean water free of solid waste , ions, with a balance ph and well aerated water. This means u spend less energy ,there by aerating your pond in the process. With this process you can comfortable increase and stock 5 or more times the number of fishes you stock in a particular pond , spending less energy .
For more elaboration, do you know you can do this system almost any were and any tiny space, you can install it in your balcony , kitchen backyard etc and your family will eat fresh organic vegetables , tomatoes daily for better health cause its grown without inorganic fertilizer, no insecticide no herbicide ,pure natural organic product . In europe and other advance countries , these products cost more than the normal crops grown on soil , they are called BIO products, cause its more healthier for humans, when we eat organically grown food . And if you want to go commercial u can sell vegetables tomatoes weekly to people around your neighbourhood....
Let me further elaborate , do u know all these crops i mention can comfortably grow in only water without soil, and they grow 2 times as faster than the ones grown on soil, with 2 times better yield of the crops produce. For example if an tomatoes crop gives you 30 to 40 tomatoes fruits or seed, and it grows in 3 to 4 months depending on the specie of the tomatoes an aquaponic system based tomatoes will produce 50 or more fruit or crop and start producing in about 2 months or little more .This major reason is because in aquaponics system the roots take the nutrients straight from the water medium and conserves its energy . This energy is transfard by the roots to the crop to form growth and fruits ,while in the normal or soil system the root utilizes its energy to dig deeper into the soil looking for nutrients and minerals there by growing slower and yielding lower .
I want to let you know that plants do not feed on soil , they feed on nutrients and minerals in the soil , so if in aquaponics system the nutrients are just readily available to the roots, then they just take the nutrients direct without using up or burning up extra energy in looking for nutrients there by utilizing the extra energy gained,there by converting all that energy to growth and fruits making.
This implies that in aquaponics system , crops mature faster with better and faster yield this implies to better profits .
The advantages of aquaponics system is so much that, all can not be written in just one write up , do you know farmers using concrete ponds in there backyard can do this system as cover for there pond , there by no need looking for money to by tapolin or build costly roofs over there pond. What you need do is to install the system over your pond and it makes a proper shade and you go home making more profits weekly on the produce, you get on it at no additional cost ,space or soil. With just about 20k to install the pipes that will carry the water round and styrofoam to hold the plants firmly to the water .
Styrofoam is that thing that looks like white foam you see , when you buy new electronics ,the white carton u see inside a new electronic carton, to protect the electronic.There are lots other medium like the cheap rectangular or square light plastics that floats on water etc
With this our improvised system, you dont really need to buy the ready made bio fillter , the process its self is natural bio filtering on its own.
Let me take you through again in another explanation for a better understanding -
Aquaponics is a symbaotic relationship between plant and fish , meaning both your fish and plant gain from each other . Now your fish produces amonia in the water and the water becomes bad , the water is pumped out of your pond either by gravity flow or with any simple pump or just by opening the outlet of your pond .The amonia water goes through a pvc pipe to a chamber, this chamber can be any drum of 500 liters or more depending on the capacity of fish and plant you want to grow. This drum or chamber will contain simple and cheap materials like charcoal sponge foams gravel sands grass oystershell and a lots of other simple bio materials inside the drum .
Because of the organic materials in the drum , the beneficial bacterial grows naturally there and they feed on the bad or toxic amonia in the water ,in this process of feeding on the amonia , they breaks down the amonia to nitrites and then to nitrates .The nitrates water is filtered to remove all the solid undissolved waste naturally, by the components i mentioned earlier like the sand gravel foam sponge grass, these are very simple and cheap materials in the drum that acts as a solid waste filter and also as host for the bacteria to grow and multiply properly . From this chamber after the bacteria have completed the process of breaking the amonia to nitrates the nitrate cocentrated water is released through an outlet in the drum, goes through the pvc pipe to the plants ,were the plants roots absorbs the nitrate as there nutrients and you are left with a water free of nitrates and pure .This water is channeled back to the pond by gravitation , there by reducing the energy used, because we try to reduce cost by any means to maximize profit.
This fresh clean water free from all toxin when it enters your pond by gravity, either by shower or rose system takes oyygen in the atmosphere there by aerating your pond better. And when u have constant oxygen in your ponds . you can stock more fishes per square meter there by maximizing the use of a particular pond and increasing profit .
There are other systems i will treat later like HYDROPONICS , which is the planting of crops with only water , without soil and no fish and DIP IRRIGATION SYSTEM , which is planting your crop with fish water or non fish water but getting water staright to the roots directly for twice fast growth .
This systems are been installed in my farm, its still in progress , by GODS grace it will be completed by this month end, and i will be glad to shear the knowledge with everybody on this tread .
From next year febuary interested persons or farms can visit my farm for first hand knowledge of it . Also i can help install this system in your farm . if you are interested, you can contact me by my whatsapp. All questions are welcome .The future is now!!!!!! GOD BLESS

lamude23:
Really, so if it is not 5ft depth of water, it's not going to get to table size?

Calyb:
I am training this fish here for a custom officer, four earth ponds with 40ftx40ftx4ft. Each containing abt 4000 pieces of catfish. I am using foreign feeds to feed them. Now what they are eating is so much. What is the cheapest means of feeding them to cut cost. Oyaaa over to you fisheries experts

soft777:
GO TO AGEGE SIR ;YOU WILL GET THERE

bily:
You know you and I, our disciplines, we love calculations

Nice info, Thumbs up!

robonski15:
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Teepompey:
Oga Ab1x, its been a while, I hope you are doing great? I would like you to please review this formula; finisher for catfish of 4 months and above
Fish meal (72%) 10kg
Blood meal 6kg
Soybean meal 20
kg
Groundnut cake 15kg
Broiler starter 25kg
Flour 9kg
Biscuit 10kg
Molasses 5kg
Lysine 0.1kg
Premix 0.5kg
DCP 1kg
Methionine 0.2kg

Anyone who is interested in feed formulation can also drop comment/review on this formula. Besides, I would appreciate if gurus and members alike in the house can drop various feed formula and lets learn new ideas. Regards.

komakan:
if u have say like 1000 fishes am sure ur pond size correspond wiv d stocking densidty......Sir, it doesnt work dat way at times. D size of d pond matters most for d quantity of drugs not number of fish.

komakan:
Pls tell him d quatity of Formalin otherwise there wil be mortality.

seskee:
Pls my good people and gurus in da haus, i need ur assistance urgently as i m worried. i just stocked juve on 12/11/2015, but yezterday noticed some r getting discolored to a dirty silver colour. Pls wat cld dis be? Is it something i shld worry for?wat do i do as i m newbie here and very lost as to wat to do. They still feed well andactive and also wen i got them at their ,their color was very black so i m confused as to why some r changing colour to dirty silver.
Pls assist me pls

@ robonski,
ab1x,
excelsoir,
soft777,
ayostat
and others plsssss

noblefarm:
Pls do u know wia I fit get at wholesale price? I need quantity. Contact pls

Annabechick:
Good evening house please is it recommendable to use local made feed for catfish because my fishes are eating excessively