Disadvantage of Mobile Fish Pond (Tarpaulin)

Are you considering setting up a backyard or large scale fish farm and thinking if you should use tarpaulin ponds? Could there be any disadvantage of using collapsible mobile tarpaulin fish pond?

Well, I currently operate 22 fish ponds (out of which 15 are tarpaulin ponds) so you might just want to get a tip from my experience.

I started switching to tarpaulin fish ponds towards the end of year 2016 and have never regretted it.
I have good tales to tell about tarpaulin ponds. They are smart and are just the right choice for anybody that wants to run a profitable fish farm.

But, you know the truth? There have been some bad experiences.

Not everyone has had good experience with mobile tarpaulin ponds, hence the need to highlight on its disadvantage.

A lot of people have complained about how their tarpaulin ponds break up within few months (like 3 or 4 months) after set up.

This disadvantage and how to avoid it has been described in [url=https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=2&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwiJsqij4PbcAhVNTBoKHcL4AE4QFjABegQICBAB&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sabyfy.com%2Fdisadvantage-of-using-collapsible-mobile-tarpaulin-fish-pond%2F&usg=AOvVaw0pzGueL7JCnuD-glVceW7k]Disadvantage of using Collapsible Mobile Tarpaulin Fish Pond[/url]

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With so many disappointments mehn, I'd go with benuwatts anytime

ambitious234:
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ambitious234:
Interesting

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Are you thinking of buying tarpaulin fish pond for your fish farm?

I have compiled some of the common size dimensions (in feet) and their fish-holding capacities that you should consider, depending on the size of the land upon which you want to set up your pond.

The dimensions are of the length, width and height, with height being constant at 4 feet.

Information on the sizes stated below were gotten from Benuwatts Company Limited, the only company I would personally advice you to trust when buying tarpaulin fish ponds.

15x15x4 feet Reinforced Tarpaulin for One thousand (1000) Table Size Catfish Capacity: if you are looking to farm up to one thousand table size fishes (catfish is used as reference), then you should consider going for this size.

However, it is always advisable to have two or even three ponds when starting out in order to have the opportunity to sort (or separate) your fishes based on their sizes.
Else the shoot outs (the fishes that quickly grow bigger than others) will begin to feed on the others.

So, instead of buying just one large 1000-capacity tarpaulin to house all your fishes from fingerlings/juvenile to table size, you should buy two or three smaller tarpaulins so that you can sort into the other tarpaulin ponds as the fingerlings/juveniles grow.
Mind you, the more space the fishes have to swim around, the better the results you will get in terms of size and weight of the fishes within a set period of time.
At the time of this write up, this size of reinforced tarpaulin costs between N64,000 – N70,000 on Benuwatts website, aside ongoing promos.

Other smaller sizes include:
10x15x4 feet Reinforced Tarpaulin for Six Hundred and Sixty Seven (667) Table Size Catfish Capacity:
At the time of this write up, this size of reinforced tarpaulin costs between N55,000 – N59,000 on Benuwatts website, aside ongoing promos.

12x12x4 feet Reinforced Tarpaulin for Six Hundred and Forty (640) Table Size Catfish Capacity:
At the time of this write up, this size of reinforced tarpaulin costs between N54,000 – 58,000 on Benuwatts website, aside ongoing promos.

10x12x4 feet Reinforced Tarpaulin for Five Hundred and Thirty Three (533) Table Size Catfish Capacity:
At the time of this write up, this size of reinforced tarpaulin costs between N51,000 – N54,000 on Benuwatts website, aside ongoing promos.

10x10x4 feet Reinforced Tarpaulin for Four Hundred and Forty Five (445) Table Size Catfish Capacity:
At the time of this write up, this size of reinforced tarpaulin costs between N46,000 – N50,000 on Benuwatts website, aside ongoing promos.

7x10x4 feet Reinforced Tarpaulin for Three Hundred and Eleven (311) Table Size Catfish Capacity:
At the time of this write up, this size of reinforced tarpaulin costs between N45,000 – N47,000 on Benuwatts website, aside ongoing promos.

6x8x4 feet Reinforced Tarpaulin for Two Hundred and Thirteen (213) Table Size Catfish Capacity:
At the time of this write up, this size of reinforced tarpaulin costs between N42,000 – N45,000 on Benuwatts website, aside ongoing promos.

5x8x4 feet Reinforced Tarpaulin for One Hundred and Seventy Eight (178) Table Size Catfish Capacity:
At the time of this write up, this size of reinforced tarpaulin costs between N38,000 – N42,000 on Benuwatts website, aside ongoing promos.

4x10x4 feet Reinforced Tarpaulin for One Hundred and Seventy Eight (178) Table Size Catfish Capacity:
At the time of this write up, this size of reinforced tarpaulin costs between N38,000 – N42,000 on Benuwatts website, aside ongoing promos.

4x6x4 feet Reinforced Tarpaulin for One Hundred and Seven(107) Table Size Catfish Capacity:
At the time of this write up, this size of reinforced tarpaulin costs between N36,000 – N40,000 on Benuwatts website, aside ongoing promos.

Please kindly note that the prices quoted above are for the tarpaulins only.
Customers will still need to buy preferred frame material (galvanized pipes, metal, wood, bamboo, etc.) locally to set up their fish ponds.

Buying the genuine reinforced tarpaulin from Benuwatts and setting it up yourself (with the help of local welders/carpenters) is called a DIY (Do-It-Yourself) approach and it saves customers between 15-25K compared to when smaller tarpaulin vendors are hired to do the complete set up.

Mobile Tarpaulin Fish Pond; Easy Way to Start a Profitable Fish Farming

Fish farming, no doubt, is a lucrative venture with ever growing market within Nigeria and a greatly
untapped market internationally.

I have been in the business of raising fishes for some time now, and I would like to share my little knowledge on the easiest way someone with little capital can engage in profitable fish farming without having to break the bank.

Running a highly profitable fish farm involves good thinking and the ability to make smart decisions that can help to save you costs. It starts with the choice of fish pond, which I am going to dwell on in this article.

Over the years (hundreds of years I guess), various types of fish ponds have evolved with newer types having improvements over their predecessors.

Earthen pond used to be the main deal, but it had limitations that needed to be done away with.

It easily got flooded from rains or from river overflow (for those sited at river banks).

Also, since earthen ponds are difficult to site in enclosed locations, owners suffered losses from poachers and thieves.

Concrete ponds came onboard and became quite popular for use in rearing fishes.

They could be constructed within the owners living compound, thereby reducing the risk of losses due to theft and poaching.

Since most of them are constructed above the ground, they don’t get easily flooded from rains.

But again, concrete ponds still had some challenges associated with them.

One is that they are expensive to construct.

Second is that a little mistake in the construction can easily lead to cracks and leakages that will jeopardize the high capital investment. Maintenance of such leakages can be a bit costly.

Concrete ponds, by nature, involves some construction that should last long-term, so this makes them out of reach of tenants who live in rented apartments (as only very few landlords, if any, would entertain such kind of structures).

Another issue has to do with immovability of concrete ponds. If for any reason the owner wants to move, there is not much option left that breaking down the structure (thereby losing the investment).

To tackle some of the challenges with concrete ponds, plastic ponds evolved and were soon followed by the mobile tarpaulin fish ponds.

One major difference between plastic and mobile tarpaulin fish ponds is in the price.

Tarpaulin ponds are a lot cheaper than plastic ponds (like those from GeePee, Hartt, etc).

For example, while N75,000 can only get you a 4000 litre capacity plastic pond (GeePee) as at present (August 2018), you can set up a tarpaulin pond of about 11,326 litres from Benuwatts with same amount.

Another difference or area where tarpaulin ponds have an edge over plastic ponds is in their portability (comparative ease of collapsing and moving them around) and also in the surface area available for oxygen exchange (which greatly enhances the growth of the fishes).

You can collapse the components of a tarpaulin pond, move and easily set them up in a desired location – be it your free farm land (they are very suitable for large scale fish farming), backyard or any space in the compound, living room or even in your bedroom (as far as you have enough ventilation there for the fishes).

However, there is a little twist to using tarpaulin ponds.

Like is typical of Nigeria, any good product soon gets overrun by imitations peddled by desperate and unruly individuals.

The pioneer of the tarpaulin fish pond technology is Benuwatts Company Limited (to the best of my knowledge). I knew about their reinforced tarpaulin ponds since year 2012.

But of recent (from around late 2016), lots of people have been flooding the market with fake tarpaulin ponds and with that have come lots of complaints about tarpaulin ponds.

So to solve this problem of counterfeit, Benuwatts went online with their reinforced tarpaulin, so that customers all over Nigeria can simply go to their website, place order and have the genuine reinforced tarpaulin delivered to their location.

In conclusion, using mobile tarpaulin fish ponds is the way to go if you want to run a profitable fish farm. But that is only if you buy the genuine tarpaulins.

I am a fish farmer with over 7 years of experience in fish farming.

I have used concrete fish ponds and plastic tanks in the past, but have recently switched to tarpaulin fish ponds, and I can proudly say that Benuwatts is the best manufacturer of tarpaulin fish ponds.

By the way, my advice to anyone who intends to venture into fish farming is to simply go for tarpaulin fish pond because it is very convenient, long lasting and has a lot of other benefits over concrete structures and plastic tanks. But that is if you get the genuine one (i.e. the reinforced grade), which is why I strongly recommend you stick with Benuwatts http://benuwatts.com/

Eloblogs:
Informative. I suggest this post also appears on Agriculture forum.

Ok, thanks

With relative ease, more Nigerian adults and families can now start up fish farms in order to earn alternative income from the highly lucrative business of fish farming. Thanks to the partnership between the Nigerian Postal Service (NIPOST) and Benuwatts Company Limited to promote modern fish farming through an innovative system that uses mobile fish ponds made from reinforced tarpaulin - instead of concrete structures that have been generally expensive and less efficient.

Details at http://pasdo.org/nipost-partners-benuwatts-to-boost-fish-farming-via-mobile-tarpaulin-ponds/