On September 23, Don't waste your time and money.

Let me help you finally make a profit from catfish farming. Click here to see how I can help. One of the frequently asked questions in catfish farming is that of how to know the number of catfish to be stocked in a pond or container.

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I have answered this question through my article on carriage capacity of pond. Like I said in some of my previous writeups, calculation of stocking density depends so much on a number of variables. On September 2, Vitamins are one of the most important minor ingredients in catfish feed.

Absence of vitamins in feed can cause growth problem, diseases, and many other disorders in catfish. Catfish premix is manufactured to compensate for the absence of vital vitamins in major catfish feed ingredients. Before you buy any fish premix, ensure it contains all important vitamins like Vitamin A, D, E, K, B12, C, and host of others as listed below.

Below are vitamins your catfish feed must have and the signs you will see if your feed does not have them. On August 26, A lot has been said on crack head disease of catfish on this blog. I think I mentioned this subject in two of my previous articles. However, I will like to dedicate this write-up to causes, identification and treatments of crack head in catfish.

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On August 8, The present state of economy in the country is not helping catfish farmers in the area of profitability. The cost of 72 percent fishmeal has almost doubled compared with what was obtainable in the last four years.

In fact, the most discouraging part of my story is that you may not get customers for catfishes above 1. On July 29, It has been observed that there is a significant relationship between feed size and growth in catfish. In other words, the size of feed given to your catfishes has a lot to do with their growth and general well being. In catfish feed production, most especially floating feed, it is a common practice that smaller feed must be made richer in nutrition than bigger feed sizes.

The reason for this is that smaller fishes that consume feeds of smaller sizes need better nutrition in terms of crude protein to grow well. Here are more facts on relationship between feed sizes and growth in catfishes that will enhance your proficiency in catfish farming practices. On July 25, A shallow pond in earthen pond system is a pond that has less than two feet of water depth. According to my recommendations on this blog, an earthen pond should have at least three or more feet of water depth to ensure your fishes grows well.

Therefore do not allow anyone to deceive you into digging shallow ponds because you might have to spend double the money to make necessary corrections. In this article, I have listed seven reasons why you should not raise your grow out fishes in a shallow pond. On July 22, Do you know that profitability in catfish farming business is not about how big your fishes are at the point of sale? You can raise big fishes and still run at loss. Many farmers believe that they might not make reasonable profit on small-sized fishes.

This is not true. Like I have been saying, big fishes are a product of good breed , nutritious feed , and good water environment. All these factor help them to feed in right quantity and convert well. As a matter of fact, one thing you might notice in fishes that will not grow well is irregular feed consumption. Their feed consumption pattern is often abnormal.

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For instance, by the time a thousand pieces of catfish should be consuming 20 kg of feed per feeding arrangement, they will consume around half of what they need to eat. On July 18, It has been observed that selling catfishes before due time always result in a loss — especially when the fishes sold are under three month old. Many fish farmers are the architect of their own failure.

They plan to fail even at the onset of their business.

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Those essential aspects of their business that should be monitored are left at the mercy of chances. As far as I am concerned, planning is everything in catfish farming. You might need to plan the number of times to stock and harvest in a year, number of fishes to stock based on your financial capacity, type of feed to use and many more critical areas of fish farming.

On July 15, Fish farming is one of the most profitable agribusinesses in Africa. You can start fish farming without the need for huge investments on capital projects like purchase of land and heavy constructions as is obtainable in poultry farming. One particular thing I love about fish farming business is that you can get details of your profit and loss after just a season of six months. I am also particular about rate of returns on the investment. In fact, some of us in the fish farming business cannot easily switch to other businesses; we prefer to expand our capacity because fish farming is interesting.

As interesting as fish farming is in our own part of the continent, there are many challenges existing and new fish farmers are facing and will still be facing if drastic steps are not taken to correct abnormality in the business.

These challenges are seriously militating against the development of fish farming.

According to my article on prospect of catfish farming in Nigeria , fish farming can generate a lot of employment opportunity for the vast unemployed youth in Africa and also earn the continent a huge foreign reserve. Some of the problems militating against the development of fish farming are discussed below: On July 11, Rules are meant to guide, and when you break them you will be penalized.

In catfish farming business, there are many rules you must never attempt to break. They must be obeyed or else profitability of the business may be affected negatively. For instance, at the stage of breeding , male and female catfish of the same family and same generation must not be used to breed.

The effect of violating this rule is long term and can even make mess of the whole process. However, not every catfish farmer will hatch what he will stock but every catfish farmer must stock small fishes to produce table size.

This is the main reason I want to focus on seven rules you must observe as you stock your fingerlings. Profitable Fish Farming Practical advice for profitable fish farming….

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