Saf999:
Gud day house i intend spawning by next week by His grace bt my questions are as follows :1 what is the quantity of salt to be added to water to make it saline 2 amount of fresh water to be added to the ferterlized egg before spreading on incubator 3 should the spawning net touch the water or shld it be suspended above the water i. e no contact with water. Pls ur response will be highly appreciated. I jst want to give it a try

pumppie:
Though I haven’t seen the report you guys are talking about neither do I know this guy but yes 5m even in maximum 3months is possible with mélange fish farming.
60,000 fingerlings to be feed with #3,960,000 to attain average weight of 400g will give you a total of 24,000kg (800baf) and a gross return of #10,320,000 if u sell at #430/kg.
Cost of fingerlings and feeding (excluding miscellaneous) amounts to #4,560,000
Profit= #5,760,000

Businesstools:
Please house, where can I get cupeid (Local fish meal) to buy at low price? Thanks

eugymuna:
Please does any one have 1kg fish ready for delivery , I need between 1000 to 3000 pieces.

eugymuna:

good morning house, please
I need 500 to 3000 pieces of 1kg fish ASAP, please contact me , give me ur price and location. U can whatsapp me 07056687701

lawstenie:
Hello everyone, am a newbie in fish farming and i have learnt a lot from this thread. A very big thnks to all the selfless coaches in the house. may God reward you for all that you are doing here. (1) I stocked 700 fingerlings recently and they are doing well. Please how do i know the runts among them? (2) I am using white plastic tank of 1200 litres for now, how many of it can contain the 700 fingerlings to table size stage?

eugymuna:
Please where is your location,

eugymuna:
Please where is your location,

eugymuna:
Please where is your location,

Saf999:
Gud day house i intend spawning by next week by His grace bt my questions are as follows :1 what is the quantity of salt to be added to water to make it saline 2 amount of fresh water to be added to the ferterlized egg before spreading on incubator 3 should the spawning net touch the water or shld it be suspended above the water i. e no contact with water. Pls ur response will be highly appreciated. I jst want to give it a try

stonedigital:
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Hello sir, welcome to d house. About your 700 fingerling, ur tank is too small to raise that amount of catfish. The maximum u can rear to table size on 1200 litres tank is 100. To rear 500 fish to table size, u need a 12*12*4 pond. For new farmers like u I will even advice u put just stock 300 pieces on a 12*12*4 feet pond to avoid loss. Pls try and invest little and and increase ur stock as time goes on. Fish farming is not a child's play cos u need serious cash and experience to be successful in it. Fish farming is another school entirely, so try and start from d cradle(start from kindergarten and primary school) before talking of profit. If u can recover all ur recurrent expenses after selling ur fish, it simply means u will be successful in it on your next batch of stocking. Please try and visit a well established farm and learn from them and make sure u pay the owner so that the seriousness will be there. Just my 2 cents

stonedigital:
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Hello sir, welcome to d house. About your 700 fingerling, ur tank is too small to raise that amount of catfish. The maximum u can rear to table size on 1200 litres tank is 100. To rear 500 fish to table size, u need a 12*12*4 pond. For new farmers like u I will even advice u put just stock 300 pieces on a 12*12*4 feet pond to avoid loss. Pls try and invest little and and increase ur stock as time goes on. Fish farming is not a child's play cos u need serious cash and experience to be successful in it. Fish farming is another school entirely, so try and start from d cradle(start from kindergarten and primary school) before talking of profit. If u can recover all ur recurrent expenses after selling ur fish, it simply means u will be successful in it on your next batch of stocking. Please try and visit a well established farm and learn from them and make sure u pay the owner so that the seriousness will be there. Just my 2 cents

ennybiyi:
Good evening, am new on here but have read a lot on here, I waant to start my fish farm as well, I don't know if there is anyone here who has pond(earthing) for rentage in Apata side or ogbomoso, wiith access to water. Am interested please.

excelsiorfarm:
bro i don't think any is saying this or that could not be achieve,the point is don't just write, not surface talk,but give indepth info so it is more enlightened info/fact that is verifiable/falsifiable before all.what you wrote, 60k fingerlings=600k,N3.96m feeding i.e N66 to feed Each to 400g. I won't discuss this, but d point is whenever we give a forecast like d guy/lady that mentioned N5m,let your aspiring investors know at what cost,here u analyse N4.5m, how many can?Not all. Even if you spawn successfully,you might achieve it under large production

pumppie:
Though I haven’t seen the report you guys are talking about neither do I know this guy but yes 5m even in maximum 3months is possible with mélange fish farming.
60,000 fingerlings to be feed with #3,960,000 to attain average weight of 400g will give you a total of 24,000kg (800baf) and a gross return of #10,320,000 if u sell at #430/kg.
Cost of fingerlings and feeding (excluding miscellaneous) amounts to #4,560,000
Profit= #5,760,000

excelsiorfarm:
bro i don't think any is saying this or that could not be achieve,the point is don't just write, not surface talk,but give indepth info so it is more enlightened info/fact that is verifiable/falsifiable before all.what you wrote, 60k fingerlings=600k,N3.96m feeding i.e N66 to feed Each to 400g. I won't discuss this, but d point is whenever we give a forecast like d guy/lady that mentioned N5m,let your aspiring investors know at what cost,here u analyse N4.5m, how many can?Not all. Even if you spawn successfully,you might achieve it under large production

robonski15:


Thank you very much sir i appreciate, we also commend your great advice on this thread.. you are very correct sir but to be honest how many farmers can stock 350,000 fingerlings/juvenile at a go.. well his idea might be feasible but he needs to provide more statistics on how to achieve it..

heartbitmi:
i honestly think you should ask questions where necessary or you can as well ignore the comment. i actually requested Mr Ola (pumppie) and mr israel adediran (mr fish) to comment on this issue of whether 5m can be achieved within that space or not, the latter declined for very respectable reasons. both men are contemporaries and my mentor and foremost consultants. my self and many others have benefited greatly from mr ola's melange model which yields over 100% ROI. i think there are more subtle ways of making requests from people you don't just order them or come at them in such a tone just because this is internet. please kindly be mindful that you may not be the best professional in this field observing things on this thread, some don't even make comments. it is my desire to encourage such heavy weights to make comments so as to further grow this thread and help more people. so please if you have questions or need clarifications kindly and politely ask. regards.

Ttalk:
Good afternoon my people, i just want to use this medium to thank selfless member of this forum who have been generous with information to young catfish farmers and i have been tutored by so many of you despite being far apart but your advise has been the light that illuminate the darkness world of fish farming.

One of my resolution to produce 50% of my feed by myself this year [2016] has been achieved with the designing of a locally produced grinding and pelletising machine that i now use to produce my rich pelletised feed. The 2 in 1 diesel machine uses one motor to drive the grinding as well as the pelletising machine and it has been very efficient.

My thanks goes to our professor in feed formulation, our amiable Ab1x for his contribution and advice on feed formula. I am very proud to announce that my 2mm feed with 40% fishmeal, 45% animal protein and 54.7 crude protein is less expensive compare to coppens 2mm. It is an eye opener that our local feeds if well formulated is far richer than the so called foreign feeds.

Mr Robonski, Soft777, Oga excellesoir, Chilanfarm, Komakan, Phemmy, Mecylicious, Billy and my respectable Nuvemberz, you are wonderful people, you have driven the passion to take calculated risk into our lives and we would not disappoint you.

Thank you all

excelsiorfarm:
bro I didn't quote you and even if I did, which isn't the case, no challenge. I mentioned an issue and robonski replied and base on that discuss pumppie wrote what I quoted from the discussion, hence where do you come in? Who is contesting with anyone? I don't need subtle ways of doing things, I speak/write direct without mincing truth or words. I have never claim I am the best, so I always try to put in some of my comments that we learn daily because I know some might come around thinking one is laying claim to be better than them(laugh). Whatever I mentioned to pumppie is valid, neither did I do an offence. I commend people when such is doing great; and I don't think it is proper to coax any to see things your way without having facts. HEAVY WEIGHTS? great, since inception of this thread many years ago; I have being writing and meeting some and commending good works from others & even there is a relationship of recommending gurus across boards to prospective fish farmers; my advice is simple, whatever you write, let it be verifiable and with clarity as we are on internet. This thread; you don't post what you cant explain appropriately to assist aspiring farmers or enlighten practicing fish farmers ( it is robonski's thread and has become a resource for getting great insight for many fish farmers within and outside the nation, especially africa ) , no offence.

I make comments when I see a question that hasn't been answered or an issue raised that I feel to rub minds with the poster or if asked/mentioned, and in cases where a previous discussion I was involve in spill over into more evaluation.

It is always good, to not be in much hurry to want to justify oneself. Let the heavy weights continue and I will continue when the need arises; hence when the heavy weights see that my comments are false, let them state it clearly.

so my brother, regards.
( All what I quoted above are the discussion that robonski replied me, what pumppie wrote and what I wrote to pumppie)

excelsiorfarm:
bro I didn't quote you and even if I did, which isn't the case, no challenge. I mentioned an issue and robonski replied and base on that discuss pumppie wrote what I quoted from the discussion, hence where do you come in? Who is contesting with anyone? I don't need subtle ways of doing things, I speak/write direct without mincing truth or words. I have never claim I am the best, so I always try to put in some of my comments that we learn daily because I know some might come around thinking one is laying claim to be better than them(laugh). Whatever I mentioned to pumppie is valid, neither did I do an offence. I commend people when such is doing great; and I don't think it is proper to coax any to see things your way without having facts. HEAVY WEIGHTS? great, since inception of this thread many years ago; I have being writing and meeting some and commending good works from others & even there is a relationship of recommending gurus across boards to prospective fish farmers; my advice is simple, whatever you write, let it be verifiable and with clarity as we are on internet. This thread; you don't post what you cant explain appropriately to assist aspiring farmers or enlighten practicing fish farmers ( it is robonski's thread and has become a resource for getting great insight for many fish farmers within and outside the nation, especially africa ) , no offence.

I make comments when I see a question that hasn't been answered or an issue raised that I feel to rub minds with the poster or if asked/mentioned, and in cases where a previous discussion I was involve in spill over into more evaluation.

It is always good, to not be in much hurry to want to justify oneself. Let the heavy weights continue and I will continue when the need arises; hence when the heavy weights see that my comments are false, let them state it clearly.

so my brother, regards.
( All what I quoted above are the discussion that robonski replied me, what pumppie wrote and what I wrote to pumppie)