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Re: Hidden Truths About Catfish Business!!! by Teepompey: 9:37am On Aug 15, 2015 |
ayosat:Pls, I would love if you could give a range. Maybe a minimum number one can stock to make a meaningful profit. Thanks as I appreciate your contribution. |
Re: Hidden Truths About Catfish Business!!! by ayosat(m): 2:33pm On Aug 15, 2015 |
babaoloola:ABULE Egba , Lagos |
Re: Hidden Truths About Catfish Business!!! by Sejeje: 4:01pm On Aug 15, 2015 |
A pelleting machine is up for sale.Contact me if u are interested. 1 Like
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Re: Hidden Truths About Catfish Business!!! by robonski15(m): 4:06pm On Aug 15, 2015 |
Teepompey:The minimum you can stock is 5000 www.agricnetwork.com |
Re: Hidden Truths About Catfish Business!!! by robonski15(m): 4:16pm On Aug 15, 2015 |
kniceport1:Good job sir, you have done pretty well.. where is your location? |
Re: Hidden Truths About Catfish Business!!! by kniceport1: 8:32pm On Aug 15, 2015 |
@robonski,thanks alot.my location is karu,abuja. |
Re: Hidden Truths About Catfish Business!!! by Nobody: 9:49pm On Aug 15, 2015 |
Good day everyone, special recognition to robonski15, I am a farmer here in zaria, kaduna state but on a low scale in a concrete pond, kindly hook me up with fish farmers from zaria and kaduna, d ones u knw of. Thanks 1 Like |
Re: Hidden Truths About Catfish Business!!! by fzero: 2:50am On Aug 16, 2015 |
dkings101:Hope there is an improvement now with your fish. |
Re: Hidden Truths About Catfish Business!!! by walexy001: 4:03am On Aug 16, 2015 |
How much is the pelleting machine sir? |
Re: Hidden Truths About Catfish Business!!! by GOLDLOVER: 4:17am On Aug 16, 2015 |
. robonski15:how many melange can i stock in three concrete ponds measuring 10ft x 10ft each, thanks |
Re: Hidden Truths About Catfish Business!!! by Nobody: 4:51am On Aug 16, 2015 |
kniceport1:@kniceport1, its great seeing an Abuja catfish farmer here. More success to your efforts |
Re: Hidden Truths About Catfish Business!!! by kniceport1: 7:47am On Aug 16, 2015 |
@JUVEFARMS,thanks alot,we have communicated several times,i am kehinde that called you sometime from karu.I will try to visit you in mpape before the month runs out. |
Re: Hidden Truths About Catfish Business!!! by jeckin205: 1:26pm On Aug 16, 2015 |
Nice write up......for your words of experience and encourage, i tink am developing keen interest in this buisness. Pls if u dnt mind can i know the exact location of your farm lagos, so i can visit some day for training. Tnx |
Re: Hidden Truths About Catfish Business!!! by Nobody: 1:40pm On Aug 16, 2015 |
robonski15:Good day sir, any fish farmer from kaduna here, zaria to be precise? |
Re: Hidden Truths About Catfish Business!!! by Sejeje: 8:03pm On Aug 16, 2015 |
walexy001:thirty thousand naira |
Re: Hidden Truths About Catfish Business!!! by MaxTech(m): 8:51pm On Aug 16, 2015 |
I am well pleased to be here and learn more about fish farming. I am newborn fish farmer |
Re: Hidden Truths About Catfish Business!!! by Nobody: 8:57pm On Aug 16, 2015 |
kniceport1:Ok. Endeavour to call so we schedule an Appointment. |
Re: Hidden Truths About Catfish Business!!! by MaxTech(m): 9:14pm On Aug 16, 2015 |
I need a tarpaulin rubber tank for fish. Can someone help plx? |
Re: Hidden Truths About Catfish Business!!! by robonski15(m): 9:47pm On Aug 16, 2015 |
jeckin205:Hello sir, my farm is in alagbado lagos.. |
Re: Hidden Truths About Catfish Business!!! by robonski15(m): 9:48pm On Aug 16, 2015 |
MULLAH123: You are welcome sir, what is your stocking capacity and how many ponds? |
Re: Hidden Truths About Catfish Business!!! by ayosat(m): 10:27pm On Aug 16, 2015 |
GOLDLOVER:if you want to raise melange , I will advice 1000 maximum. if grow out I will advice 600. |
Re: Hidden Truths About Catfish Business!!! by Nobody: 12:56am On Aug 17, 2015 |
robonski15:doing it on a low scale for now, trying to get experience before plunging in full time, 200 to 220 in a concrete pond |
Re: Hidden Truths About Catfish Business!!! by Fhemmmy: 3:17am On Aug 17, 2015 |
GOLDLOVER: robonski15: Hmmmmm . . .Let us look at 5000 Melange as example because i still put it to most people that, i dont see how someone could make money from this melange business . . . 5000 FIngerlings bought at 10 Naira = 50,000 Naira Feeding at 150 Naira/ fish * 5000 Fishes - - - Will cost 750,000 Naira Miscellaneous assuming is 5% of the total cost spent . . . This will now be 5% of 800,000 Naira and will be 40,000 Naira Total expenditure seems to be 840,000 Naira Total sales: Assume we attain a average weight of 350g This will give us 1750 kg Sales of Melange i heard is 380 Naira /Kg if one is lucky . . . . . 665K Naira Please gurus in the house, is there anything i am doing wrong in this calculation, if NOT i am yet to see how people could convince me that they are making money from melange. 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: Hidden Truths About Catfish Business!!! by GOLDLOVER: 6:59am On Aug 17, 2015 |
Fhemmmy:Exactly, i have been wondering how this melange bizness can be profitable. Even if you produce your own fingerlings you are still gonna have some expenses. Pls, those doing it profitably should throw more light on this issue. Thanks |
Re: Hidden Truths About Catfish Business!!! by jaz(m): 9:03am On Aug 17, 2015 |
oga Robonski and all the other gurus, over to you. Fhemmmy: |
Re: Hidden Truths About Catfish Business!!! by korel9: 11:53am On Aug 17, 2015 |
Hello house. I just sold off my stock of 5 months yesterday. I was able to get an average of 600grams for the fast growers and 200grams for d others. Sold @ #500 per kilo for d big ones and #400 per kilo for d small ones. Though I sold at a loss considering how much I spent on d feeding and purchase of water, still I give God d glory cos I got more dan what I had expected. Is it wise I restock now? I now know areas where I erred. |
Re: Hidden Truths About Catfish Business!!! by Fhemmmy: 12:23pm On Aug 17, 2015 |
korel9: Sorry for the loss nd happy you are happy... could you share with the house the area where you think you made mistakes son the novices in the house could learn? |
Re: Hidden Truths About Catfish Business!!! by Ttalk: 12:41pm On Aug 17, 2015 |
CATFISH BUSINESS - MY EXPERIENCE It all started sometimes late last year in my quest for knowledge about fish farming when i stumbled on this thread by our amiable Hon. Robonski and so many vast contributors who has been contributing freely in educating novice and intended farmers with so many information enough to guarantee success in the business. Thanks to you all. I will take enough time to share with friends here my experience so far, my judgement, failure and success. Please feel free to contribute, criticize and correct me where i am wrong and what should be done to improve my performance in future. Firstly, i want to say to many, who intend to venture into this business but lack adequate resource not to be scare but rather take the bull by the horn and work within your limited resources. I must confess that this thread particularly boosted my spirit and put a stop to my procrastination. PROCRASTINATION is a disease that retards growth, it makes one to lost out in quest for opportunity, while it blind you to see when to strike, blur your vision of success and deafen your inner mind to hear the subtle call to take action. It is simply a disease that perpetually make you stagnant [runt]. But the moment you take the bold steps all other things will begin to fall in your favour to achieve the set target. MY SWOT ANALYSIS -[STRENGTH, WEAKNESS, OPPORTUNITY, THREAT] Before embarking on any business it will be very important to consider your strength, weakness, opportunity, and threat. I started my catfish business December 2014 and eventually stock my pond in March 11, 2015 with 1225 post fingerling in 8X12X5feet, then comes my problems. MY WEAKNESS:Let me start with my weakness in catfish business and how i was able to work around it to achieve my objectives. The most important resource in catfish business is the adequate supply of freshwater, but my major constraints was water supply. I have no borehole and the only well can barely supply 100 litres of water. I connected pipe from the well to a 3000litre tank beside the 2 concrete ponds to pump the little water into the pond morning and evening but this can barely cover the fish in the pond. Then i started buying 50 of (20litres of jerrycan) every Saturdays to complement the water in my tank. When i discovered that the water from my tank plus the 50 of 25litres water was not enough, i started fetching water every Saturday using my vehicle to carry as many as 25litre jerrycan from a nearby borehole in my neighbourhood every Saturday. The experience was not funny because i go as many as 6times before i could get about 200litres of water. This adversely affect the growth of my fish because i was only able to change the water twice in the first month. In the second month, i sorted the fish into the second pond thereby increasing the quantity of the water needed to go round the two ponds. As the fish begins to grow, the demand for water into the ponds increases while the water in my well was decreasing thereby increasing my task of getting water. I felt like abandon the whole thing at a point because i was always buying water and all the shock absorber and joints of my vehicle was really bad. My problems was even compounded as my initial assumption that the water level of my well will start increasing from April when the rain starts falling ceased to materialised because the rain refused to fall. And by May the water in my well completely dried off and i was left with no option other than to buy and fetch my water. These were really trying period for me because the water continuously gets polluted easily and there was always needs to change the water often. 2 Likes |
Re: Hidden Truths About Catfish Business!!! by soft777(m): 1:14pm On Aug 17, 2015 |
HELLO HOUSE PLEASE I NEED A GOOD AND EDUCATED CATFISH HATCHERY MANAGER TO MANAGE MY HATCHERY AFTER OTA ::: HATCHERY ALREADY IN PLACE AND ACCOMODATION IS ON THE FARM . AT LEAST MANAGER SHOULD HAVE AN WORKING EXPERIENCE BEFORE. PLEASE INTRESTED PERSONS CAN CONTACT ME BY MY EMAIL egbadon.andrew@yahoo.com or buzz or rather flash MY FRANCE NUMBERS ARE 0033753341818 or 0033753897776 AND I WILL CALL BACK IMEDIATELY: SALARIES AND OTHER BENEFITS WILL BE DISCUSSED WHEN WE TALK THANKS ALL AND HAVE A BLESSED DAY. |
Re: Hidden Truths About Catfish Business!!! by Mascotlawman: 1:30pm On Aug 17, 2015 |
please my brothers and sisters, u people have been doing a great work here by assisting others. God bless us all. I have been begging for this, please robonski15, Juvefarms and other gurus. please I really need assistance from anyone who can send the E-manual to me. My email is Mills8312@gmail.com , I will really appreciate ur help. |
Re: Hidden Truths About Catfish Business!!! by jaz(m): 1:37pm On Aug 17, 2015 |
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