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Re: Hidden Truths About Catfish Business!!! by Johnnyessence(m): 8:35am On Mar 14, 2015
JuveFarms:
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Re: Hidden Truths About Catfish Business!!! by excelsiorfarm(m): 9:07am On Mar 14, 2015
Johnnyessence:
bro excelsior good evening how was today's farming sir firstly bro fingerlings picks from 1.2mm to 1.5mm in d first place in my own farming I started with imported feeds which are coppens,multi feeds and Ziegler feeds I used this feeds for d first month then I used coppens feed and also for d juveniles feed they start picking feeds from 2mm feed size mainly imported feeds to start with then u can now proceed with d locally one produced in Nigeria till table size u can also change d feeds to imported ones provided u av money at hand hmmm happy farming.
acknowledge your write up, unfortunately no standard in d market, at times some 5 weeks picks 2mm coppens , hence is that juvenile?
Re: Hidden Truths About Catfish Business!!! by excess4luv: 9:11am On Mar 14, 2015
Boss Robonski, Happy Birthday in advance ooooo may God continue to polish ur life for good, give u more years to celebrate, may you always find favour HIS sight always may peace never leave ur household. Congratulations on yet another year, God bless you sir.
Re: Hidden Truths About Catfish Business!!! by excelsiorfarm(m): 9:20am On Mar 14, 2015
Robonski Happy Birthday & remain blessed
Re: Hidden Truths About Catfish Business!!! by Nobody: 9:33am On Mar 14, 2015
abdulumar:


@mercylicious: I know its a bit unrelated, but can you hook me up with contact details of importers of fishing nets/gear? Going by you mention of prices, I will like to explore other options. Thankx
find attached their price as written down for me. Their phone no is on the paper.
I also insisted the exact guy i.met in d shop gives me his no. His no is 07063779397.

Please, if you want to buy, start small. u can buy one to confirm its the same quality as d one you want. You know am nt experienced, so i cant recognise or tell d quality when i see one.

You can as well wait so that i get the phone no of the importers that have account with us. That way, you can compare prices as i only went to one shop the day i went to d line.

Re: Hidden Truths About Catfish Business!!! by abdulumar: 10:07am On Mar 14, 2015
@mercylicious. Thanks a lot for the assistance, i'l make sure to be careful in getting the quality right before I make any large purchases.
Re: Hidden Truths About Catfish Business!!! by Johnnyessence(m): 2:24pm On Mar 14, 2015
excelsiorfarm:
acknowledge your write up, unfortunately no standard in d market, at times some 5 weeks picks 2mm coppens , hence is that juvenile?
they are juveniles bro.
Re: Hidden Truths About Catfish Business!!! by robonski15(m): 2:58pm On Mar 14, 2015
Belexy:


This issue of age and size as per fingerlings and juveniles is really confusing and alot of hatchers seem to confuse eachother. I also need some clarification on this. For instance some hatchers will say fishes of 6weeks dat are very big will be sorted frm d pack of fingerlings and sold as post-fingerlings while its siblings are still refered to as fingerlings bcoz dey are smaller in size. Is, this right? Shd those fishes rightly be called post-fingerlings bcoz they are bigger dan d rest of d other fingerlings but yet just 6weeks old?
Same thing happens with juveniles too. Just bcoz dey are bigger than the rest and look like d size of actual juveniles, dey call dem juveniles despite their young age of say 7weeks.
I need some clarification on this bcoz in my opinion, its not right.
#i dnt think we will call a short adult man of 30yrs a juvenile just because he is short and looks like a juvenile.
majority of the hatchers lie a whole lot about age and co, this debate has been ongoing for a long period of time. How can all fishes in six weeks suddenly becomes fingerlings, its only the gullible buyers that will believe such info. At least at the 8th week and above they are ripe enough to be called fingerlings that can pick 2mm without hassles. U cannot get a standard juvenile that will pick 3mm at the 7th week, haba!!! at the 12th week from hatchery all the fishes should be ready to be sold as juvenile..
Re: Hidden Truths About Catfish Business!!! by robonski15(m): 3:04pm On Mar 14, 2015
Johnnyessence:
they are juveniles bro.
bro johneey, as long as u buy juvenile and they cant pick 3mm they are not juvenile, rather fingerlings. that means u just bought fingerlings as juvenile at a high cost... Be wise brotherly.
Re: Hidden Truths About Catfish Business!!! by Nobody: 3:26pm On Mar 14, 2015
robonski15:

bro johneey, as long as u buy juvenile and they cant pick 3mm they are not juvenile, rather fingerlings. that means u just bought fingerlings as juvenile at a high cost... Be wise brotherly.
Juveniles can pick 6mm also. grin

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Re: Hidden Truths About Catfish Business!!! by Belexy(m): 3:56pm On Mar 14, 2015
robonski15:

majority of the hatchers lie a whole lot about age and co, this debate has been ongoing for a long period of time. How can all fishes in six weeks suddenly becomes fingerlings, its only the gullible buyers that will believe such info. At least at the 8th week and above they are ripe enough to be called fingerlings that can pick 2mm without hassles. U cannot get a standard juvenile that will pick 3mm at the 7th week, haba!!! at the 12th week from hatchery all the fishes should be ready to be sold as juvenile..

Thanks.... Yeah there are so many untrustworthy pple out there. Although most of them are ignorant and genuinly dnt knw d right thing. We need to enlighten farmers so they dnt fall for such malpractices.
Re: Hidden Truths About Catfish Business!!! by tinuolly(f): 4:41pm On Mar 14, 2015
Durante-Skretting Fish Feed now available in Abeokuta. call 07039397869
Re: Hidden Truths About Catfish Business!!! by Johnnyessence(m): 5:23pm On Mar 14, 2015
robonski15:

bro johneey, as long as u buy juvenile and they cant pick 3mm they are not juvenile, rather fingerlings. that means u just bought fingerlings as juvenile at a high cost... Be wise brotherly.
bro robonski d juveniles I av is picking 3mm floating feed oooooo in fact they are in need of food in this stage they are in.bro Roland d seed fish I bought was juveniles ooooo in fact I so much love them Cos' of d way they are when are been fed with foreign feeds they are fresh and big hmmmmm but when I change it to d local feeds their level of fat has reduced Cos' of d low content of protein in d local feeds .I heard of durante feeds I heard is a local feeds but I hope d local content of protein is much oooooooo I heard they are producing it in Oyo state still want to know d best local feeds here in Nigeria.
Re: Hidden Truths About Catfish Business!!! by Johnnyessence(m): 5:32pm On Mar 14, 2015
robonski15:

bro johneey, as long as u buy juvenile and they cant pick 3mm they are not juvenile, rather fingerlings. that means u just bought fingerlings as juvenile at a high cost... Be wise brotherly.
bro robonski if I can get u right d best juvenile should be d one that can pick 3mm on d first day of stocking abi bro still need ur clarification on this pls.
Re: Hidden Truths About Catfish Business!!! by fzero: 10:00pm On Mar 14, 2015
Am loving this thread, keep it up guys xo
Re: Hidden Truths About Catfish Business!!! by excelsiorfarm(m): 10:32pm On Mar 14, 2015
Johnnyessence:
bro robonski d juveniles I av is picking 3mm floating feed oooooo in fact they are in need of food in this stage they are in.bro Roland d seed fish I bought was juveniles ooooo in fact I so much love them Cos' of d way they are when are been fed with foreign feeds they are fresh and big hmmmmm but when I change it to d local feeds their level of fat has reduced Cos' of d low content of protein in d local feeds .I heard of durante feeds I heard is a local feeds but I hope d local content of protein is much oooooooo I heard they are producing it in Oyo state still want to know d best local feeds here in Nigeria.
bro no vex , i be cross examiner, i mentioned that at times some 5 weeks pick 2mm & ask base on prior response or analysis if they are juvenile, u don change report now, as a new or upcoming farmer which one i go believe now, d 3mm in question is it coppens, raanan or durante, make experts enlighten us

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Re: Hidden Truths About Catfish Business!!! by noblefarm: 10:42pm On Mar 14, 2015
pls who is into smokefish here, how is the market?
Re: Hidden Truths About Catfish Business!!! by excelsiorfarm(m): 10:58pm On Mar 14, 2015
noblefarm:
pls who is into smokefish here, how is the market?
am not into it ,but great, how i do i know? I know at least four people doing it, one where i buy my feeds, another d major supplier of raanan feeds in ibadan apata, love fisheries also & an elderly farmer that buys 100 kg at a time for smoking, returns btw 60- 100 % of investment in profit, how do i know? I ask lots of questions, pretend to be new in agric things so as to know more, but they should be well dried(not burnt), decent package, not necessary to be expensive, get outlets to receive for market or create one
Re: Hidden Truths About Catfish Business!!! by noblefarm: 11:06pm On Mar 14, 2015
excelsiorfarm:
am not into it ,but great, how i do i know? I know at least four people doing it, one where i buy my feeds, another d major supplier of raanan feeds in ibadan apata, love fisheries also & an elderly farmer that buys 100 kg at a time for smoking, returns btw 60- 100 % of investment in profit, how do i know? I ask lots of questions, pretend to be new in agric things so as to know more, but they should be well dried(not burnt), decent package, not necessary to be expensive, get outlets to receive for market or create one

pls do u know abt the processing machine, gas or electric and how much it cost
Re: Hidden Truths About Catfish Business!!! by excelsiorfarm(m): 11:40pm On Mar 14, 2015
noblefarm:


pls do u know abt the processing machine, gas or electric and how much it cost
all fabricated, dont know d makers, firro use to sale , also i heard of school of fishery or oceanography(not sure), price depend on capacity, source of energy, those i mentioned were coal, if it wasn't part of d data loss when nairaland crash, it seems i posted a pic of one of d oven that was fabricated, cost around N150k, though i learnt some well structure & functional ones is as high as N450k, still do your research on d oven personally to suit your vision, sleep well
Re: Hidden Truths About Catfish Business!!! by robonski15(m): 1:12am On Mar 15, 2015
noblefarm:


pls do u know abt the processing machine, gas or electric and how much it cost

A guy named retin01 makes smoking kiln at an affordable price. you can contact him.. also go to www.agricnetwork.com and check out some pix he posted.
Re: Hidden Truths About Catfish Business!!! by Nobody: 8:27am On Mar 15, 2015
Johnnyessence:
@bro fhemmy this is d pix of d snake that was hang when struggling to enter d pond ooo due to d tight in d net d snake doesn't av his way into d pond but was trapped through d net .it has now dried

Though i didnt see any pic, can u please tell me the ply size of the net you used.

@House, is there any equipment that can assist in clearing and landscaping an earthen pond site? The location is really swampy and d villagers dt a friend told to clear ten plots for him cleared only two plots and escaped.
Re: Hidden Truths About Catfish Business!!! by Nobody: 8:45am On Mar 15, 2015
On the oven , i once posted a locally constructed oven on this thread. The price was btw 50-75k (i cannot remember now.) i recal i posted d size then. The drawback is dt the oven uses gas as fuel.

The cost of fuel shld be considered b4 investing in any kind of oven. I dont know which is d cheapest- gas, charcoal, etc. You shld also check d mkt u are supplying. Heard some specialized mkt dont take charcoal smoked fish .

I will make more research on smoking when i take off in my farm site. Heard 300grms and below sells faster than others. They have a lot of ppl doing the smoking biz at Ogbaru LGA (a riverine community )Anambra here . I intend to go there myself and see d kind of ovens they use.
Re: Hidden Truths About Catfish Business!!! by Nobody: 9:00am On Mar 15, 2015
is there any disadvantage of using a smaller sized feed for a fish?
i bought another 1kg of 1.8mm cos i dont want to run out of feed at anytime as i saw d remaining feed as small. Bt when i checked the remaining feed, it was no as small as i tot. By the time my fish finish the remaining one, they shld be on 2mm. Since ive bought the 1.8mm already, i intend to continue wit it. Is it wrong?

Also, sumone shld help wit a pic to identify diff types of fish, holland and dutch.
Are their table fish prices different?
Re: Hidden Truths About Catfish Business!!! by Nobody: 9:07am On Mar 15, 2015
abdulumar:
@mercylicious. Thanks a lot for the assistance, i'l make sure to be careful in getting the quality right before I make any large purchases.
@abdulamar,
here is d phone no of d customer i promised. compare price with the first one. If same, go wit this 2nd no cos we have existing relationship wit him, hence, some kind of control.

Mr Solomon-08034816102


nb- i will be removing his phone no on this web in 24hrs. Dnt blame me. Fraudsters full nairaland .
Re: Hidden Truths About Catfish Business!!! by robonski15(m): 11:37am On Mar 15, 2015
excelsiorfarm:
Robonski Happy Birthday & remain blessed

Thank you sir.. A big Amen
Re: Hidden Truths About Catfish Business!!! by robonski15(m): 11:46am On Mar 15, 2015
pathology:
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO SIR ROBONSKI, igba odun odun kan no.

[i]Thanks Mr Pathology... ose pupo[/I]
Re: Hidden Truths About Catfish Business!!! by robonski15(m): 11:53am On Mar 15, 2015
JuveFarms:
Hello to all Robonski-Nairaland thread followers, let's begin the count down. The father of this thread is celebrating his wedding anniversary.... Ohhh I meant Birthday. YeeeeePeeee. 15th March 1960, a mentor,motivator,master,MarchPikin was born. Join me as we begin the count down. Oga no vex say i expose ur exact bornday.... Let the birthday wishes/gifts start coming in grin grin grin grin grin

1960 ke cheesy cheesy cheesy.. Abego oga juve I never reach that age oo... Thank you all the same..
Re: Hidden Truths About Catfish Business!!! by robonski15(m): 11:54am On Mar 15, 2015
excess4luv:
Boss Robonski, Happy Birthday in advance ooooo may God continue to polish ur life for good, give u more years to celebrate, may you always find favour HIS sight always may peace never leave ur household. Congratulations on yet another year, God bless you sir.

A Big Amen... Thank you Mr excess
Re: Hidden Truths About Catfish Business!!! by ultrazone(m): 2:16pm On Mar 15, 2015
robonski15:


A Big Amen... Thank you Mr excess
Just seeing this. God increase you in health and prosperity, Mr Robonski. HBD, my inspiring Oga. Wishing you every good thing in life.
Re: Hidden Truths About Catfish Business!!! by Fhemmmy: 2:30pm On Mar 15, 2015
Chief Robonski, Happy birthday and God bless you
Re: Hidden Truths About Catfish Business!!! by tinuolly(f): 4:34pm On Mar 15, 2015
Durante-Skretting Feed has both foreign and local feed. all floating feeds from durante are foreign feed.however there are pelletized feeds which are sinking feed made in nigeria which many people refer to as local feed. the protein content is perfect,and skretting technology used in the production. Durante feed available in abeokuta, calll 07039397869

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