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What is fish farming ? fish farming can be described as a
system of farming in which fishes are breed in an enclosure or
tanks for commercial purposes.it can be in small scale fish
farming or in large scale fish farming.
Many of you will be wondering on how they can start a fish farm
successfully. This post will take you through a rundown process
on how you can start a fish farm.
The fish specie we will be considering in this post is a cat fish.
The key things you need to know in fish farming is how to hatch
( spawning) , how to manage it and the feed formulation
Firstly, learn how to hatch a fish or buy juvenile, if you have
never started hatching on your own,it will take a long time
before you make it big in fish farming.so carefully build your
own hatching ponds and with what you learnt you gave it a shot
and after successful done, You nurture them to fingerlings
stage
Selected the best fingerlings for stocking for the next 5 months
and sell the rest.This is 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.
HOW TO STOCK YOUR FISH IN FISH FARMING
Before you stock the pond you disinfect it with "BLAGDON ANTI
FUNGI AND BACTERIA" by doing this you have cleared the pond
against any fungi or bacteria present in the pond. Sometimes
you may stock and after a while they will start dieing due to an
outbreak of disease present in the pond, so I advice all farmers
to disinfect there pond using the drugs mentioned above.
After two weeks of stocking you start to sort them into sizes
Big, medium and small. Sorting is one essential activity u MUST
do to save your investment.If you don't sort only less than half
of your fish will grow well and be ready for sale when most
should be ready.. This is because its only the big and
aggressive ones that will be eating most of the time and they
are usually less than half of the entire stock you have in the
pond. But when you sort regularly most of the fishes will be of
regular size and they can compete with themselves for food. So
they can all grow at the same pace. PLEASE DONT TAKE
SORTING LIKELY..
One other thing that makes us loose money is overstocking of
your pond. Your fishes will not grow. Because the water gets
polluted easily and this will cause the dissolved oxygen to be
depleted in the water. And when this takes place the fishes wont
eat well their appetite for food will be lost.. So I guess a farmer
should measure his pond well before stocking.
FEEDING YOUR FISH IN FISH FARMING
You know feeding takes 70% of the total cost and there are no
cut corners in feeding your fish.I tell farmers that "What you give
to them that's what they will become" and that's a fact. I have
seen farmers that give their fishes garri and expect them to gain
enough weight, and its no surprise when they sell at a loss..
As long as you have right fish (like shooteers) and you sort and
don't over stock, you can go ahead and feed them very well. Let
me tell u one deep truth when u stock the right fish(shooters)
they can even eat less and yet grow bigger.
ALSO READ: Irrigation Farming Addressed By the New
Government
Now there are all sort of feeds available in the market from
coppens,durante,multifeed,zeigler,aqua feed, ranan,vital feed
etc.When I started back then I was using coppens and there
was a time I even bought a fake one (coppens) but for some
time now I have been using zeigler and I must say that I prefer
zeigler to coppens. I know most farmers will be raising eyebrow
now but that's a pure fact. Infact I had a client that sells vale
viva feed back then the company did an experiment of coppens,
zeigler,multi feed and durante, she told me that ziegler came out
top,but I wasn't suprised because I had done my own finding
too. I find zeigler to be the best feed after using it. Now if you
don't feed your fish regularly they will not grow. And you should
know the size of feed you give to them at the right time. Feeding
should be three times a day but at the third month feed them
twice a day while ate the last month u full feed once a day.
At the third month farmers tend to switch to local feed and they
sort for a good local feed. Back then I used local feed, I had a
good combination but I found out that most of the ingredient are
adulterated, especially the fish meal and fish meal is the main
ingredient to produce a good feed and for rapid growth. Some
farmers include blood meal but I bet that majority of the so
called blood meal are not, they are sometimes burnt tyre.I know
right now you may be wandering but yes that's the truth, thats
why i stopped using local feeds.
I deviced a method that after three month I switch to VITAL
feed. If you compare the cost of vital feed and the local feed we
spend time and energy on, its not that big. And truthfully vital
feed is not an imported feed it is made here in Nigeria so to me
vital feed is also a local feed. Some farmers may say we do
local feed to reduce cost and I laugh at their ignorance.It is
better to go straight to the point than cutting corners and
whereby you may still be cheated on the local feed.When you
have a good fish its better you feed them with quality to harvest
quality.
CHANGING YOUR WATER IN FISH FARMING
I have been to farms where the water is so polluted and stinks. I
wonder how such farmers reason. Its just like putting 20 people
in a single room and you shut the door and window what do u
think will happen over time.
ALSO READ: Best Agriculture Farm to Establish In Nigeria
If u don't change the water as at when due the environment of
the fishes will be too polluted to encourage good feeding.The
fishes urine,feaces and dissolved excess feed, pollute the water
and they wont eat well or digest the food because of polluted
environment.
MARKETING YOUR CATFISH IN FISH FARMING
At the fourth month fishes must have attained an average of
1kg and 0.9 kg. You start contacting buyers and eatries and
joints.Some farmers wait till harvest before they con tact buyers
and this is wrong because when the time of harvest has elapsed
they keep feeding the fish and some may have depleted their
money to feed the fished thereby allowing the fish to loose
weight.
FISH FARMING IS A GOOD AND PROFITABLE BUSINESS TO
VENTURE IN

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my catfishes are 2000 and they seem to be stunted weighing about 0.2-0.3kg at four months, and they consume over 1bag of fishfeed everyday...please is there any remedy?

seno007:
my catfishes are 2000 and they seem to be stunted weighing about 0.2-0.3kg at four months, and they consume over 1bag of fishfeed everyday...please is there any remedy?

Try do the following;

1. Change the water, but treat first before refilling the tanks.

2. Starve them for about a day after doing that.

3. Sort them and use different tanks. Don't over crowd your fishes and feed according to their body weight.

Meanwhile, do you formulate your feed yourself? If not, i can help out but you will have to pay.

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i have done all the above listed and of course i know i will have to pay@ayofag

Jadmchris:
What is fish farming ? fish farming can be described as a
system of farming in which fishes are breed in an enclosure or
tanks for commercial purposes.it can be in small scale fish
farming or in large scale fish farming.
Many of you will be wondering on how they can start a fish farm
successfully. This post will take you through a rundown process
on how you can start a fish farm.
The fish specie we will be considering in this post is a cat fish.
The key things you need to know in fish farming is how to hatch
( spawning) , how to manage it and the feed formulation
Firstly, learn how to hatch a fish or buy juvenile, if you have
never started hatching on your own,it will take a long time
before you make it big in fish farming.so carefully build your
own hatching ponds and with what you learnt you gave it a shot
and after successful done, You nurture them to fingerlings
stage
Selected the best fingerlings for stocking for the next 5 months
and sell the rest.This is 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.
HOW TO STOCK YOUR FISH IN FISH FARMING
Before you stock the pond you disinfect it with "BLAGDON ANTI
FUNGI AND BACTERIA" by doing this you have cleared the pond
against any fungi or bacteria present in the pond. Sometimes
you may stock and after a while they will start dieing due to an
outbreak of disease present in the pond, so I advice all farmers
to disinfect there pond using the drugs mentioned above.
After two weeks of stocking you start to sort them into sizes
Big, medium and small. Sorting is one essential activity u MUST
do to save your investment.If you don't sort only less than half
of your fish will grow well and be ready for sale when most
should be ready.. This is because its only the big and
aggressive ones that will be eating most of the time and they
are usually less than half of the entire stock you have in the
pond. But when you sort regularly most of the fishes will be of
regular size and they can compete with themselves for food. So
they can all grow at the same pace. PLEASE DONT TAKE
SORTING LIKELY..
One other thing that makes us loose money is overstocking of
your pond. Your fishes will not grow. Because the water gets
polluted easily and this will cause the dissolved oxygen to be
depleted in the water. And when this takes place the fishes wont
eat well their appetite for food will be lost.. So I guess a farmer
should measure his pond well before stocking.
FEEDING YOUR FISH IN FISH FARMING
You know feeding takes 70% of the total cost and there are no
cut corners in feeding your fish.I tell farmers that "What you give
to them that's what they will become" and that's a fact. I have
seen farmers that give their fishes garri and expect them to gain
enough weight, and its no surprise when they sell at a loss..
As long as you have right fish (like shooteers) and you sort and
don't over stock, you can go ahead and feed them very well. Let
me tell u one deep truth when u stock the right fish(shooters)
they can even eat less and yet grow bigger.
ALSO READ: Irrigation Farming Addressed By the New
Government
Now there are all sort of feeds available in the market from
coppens,durante,multifeed,zeigler,aqua feed, ranan,vital feed
etc.When I started back then I was using coppens and there
was a time I even bought a fake one (coppens) but for some
time now I have been using zeigler and I must say that I prefer
zeigler to coppens. I know most farmers will be raising eyebrow
now but that's a pure fact. Infact I had a client that sells vale
viva feed back then the company did an experiment of coppens,
zeigler,multi feed and durante, she told me that ziegler came out
top,but I wasn't suprised because I had done my own finding
too. I find zeigler to be the best feed after using it. Now if you
don't feed your fish regularly they will not grow. And you should
know the size of feed you give to them at the right time. Feeding
should be three times a day but at the third month feed them
twice a day while ate the last month u full feed once a day.
At the third month farmers tend to switch to local feed and they
sort for a good local feed. Back then I used local feed, I had a
good combination but I found out that most of the ingredient are
adulterated, especially the fish meal and fish meal is the main
ingredient to produce a good feed and for rapid growth. Some
farmers include blood meal but I bet that majority of the so
called blood meal are not, they are sometimes burnt tyre.I know
right now you may be wandering but yes that's the truth, thats
why i stopped using local feeds.
I deviced a method that after three month I switch to VITAL
feed. If you compare the cost of vital feed and the local feed we
spend time and energy on, its not that big. And truthfully vital
feed is not an imported feed it is made here in Nigeria so to me
vital feed is also a local feed. Some farmers may say we do
local feed to reduce cost and I laugh at their ignorance.It is
better to go straight to the point than cutting corners and
whereby you may still be cheated on the local feed.When you
have a good fish its better you feed them with quality to harvest
quality.
CHANGING YOUR WATER IN FISH FARMING
I have been to farms where the water is so polluted and stinks. I
wonder how such farmers reason. Its just like putting 20 people
in a single room and you shut the door and window what do u
think will happen over time.
ALSO READ: Best Agriculture Farm to Establish In Nigeria
If u don't change the water as at when due the environment of
the fishes will be too polluted to encourage good feeding.The
fishes urine,feaces and dissolved excess feed, pollute the water
and they wont eat well or digest the food because of polluted
environment.
MARKETING YOUR CATFISH IN FISH FARMING
At the fourth month fishes must have attained an average of
1kg and 0.9 kg. You start contacting buyers and eatries and
joints.Some farmers wait till harvest before they con tact buyers
and this is wrong because when the time of harvest has elapsed
they keep feeding the fish and some may have depleted their
money to feed the fished thereby allowing the fish to loose
weight.
FISH FARMING IS A GOOD AND PROFITABLE BUSINESS TO
VENTURE IN

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