aoladayo:
Thank very much, they are currently on 3mm Coppens and also Pls where can I get those stuffs, I stay I Alagbado.

olabakefish:


Were in Alagbado do you stay, am in kola AIT rd. You can get those at Agege or Abbartior

aoladayo:
Thank very much, they are currently on 3mm Coppens and also Pls where can I get those stuffs, I stay I Alagbado.

bendims:
Fish farmers in the house please help me. I bought some Catfish broodstocks recently and they have refused feed for 3 days now. What do I do? I've tried changing their water and refreshing them. But still yet they refuse to eat. Please house help me. Any advice?

bendims:
Fish farmers in the house please help me. I bought some Catfish broodstocks recently and they have refused feed for 3 days now. What do I do? I've tried changing their water and refreshing them. But still yet they refuse to eat. Please house help me. Any advice?

excelsiorfarm:
is d feed presently d same with d source's feed,how did you treat them from transportation to introduction into your pond?was d seller even feeding them prior to selling to you(reason for this question is i bought broodstock from someone,it exhibited similar issue,though i still use them & gave quite a fair result,i decided then to do some finding & he confessed that he hadnt being able to feed them for about 3-4 weeks,but i also used them after conditioning them overtime for more than 3-4 progressive hatching with good results & no feedback with any complain). Ask your seller, if there is any info he/she kept back. Also another area is were they active at purchase & what quarantine did u undertake that

excelsiorfarm:
i was missing all you guys,belexyfarm, fhemmmy and everyone, though those online too are doing great and solutions are gotten.

Welcome back, and where is that ogun state nice fishfarmer,abix, him too has being on vacation for too long and i would love to see some pics from those wonderful flowing or gushing fishponds.

All the same the thread isn't falling in expectation.

robonski15:

Ab1x is doing good, i will speak with him to come on line more.. fheemy belexy are doing great.

gratiaeo:
After sorting my fishes last week,their color changed to white/grey what could be the cause,they are active and are feeding well,I change water daily.(my pond is plastic white pond).farmers in the house pls help

yomiknows:
There is noting to worry about. It is normal for fishes to align with the colour of the water or container in which they are bred. I had same concern sometime back when the colour of my stock changed to( brown) the colour of the water in the pond they were kept in .

aoladayo:
Mail me Ur whatsapp number let's talk abeg

bendims:
Fish farmers in the house please help me. I bought some Catfish broodstocks recently and they have refused feed for 3 days now. What do I do? I've tried changing their water and refreshing them. But still yet they refuse to eat. Please house help me. Any advice?

swagficient:
Hey mate, I know where you are coming from. What you should have asked is ''why is it a lot of work for you'' and POLITELY!
Now I'm going to tell you why, I am a Freelance writer, if you know what that means you will understand how much research I do a day. So reading is the the least of my problems. Infact, it pays my bills.
You dont expect me to read all 303 pages just to ask a question. Reading it all would have cost me nothing less than 8-12 hours, thats if i spent approcimately two to 3 minutes per page! Now considering I have read through like ten of the pages and the only thing I found USEFUL were the Op's posts and updates. Now tell me why I should waste precious hours on comments that I dont necessarily need?

Note: I have been in fish business for a while now and I haven't experienced the kind of challenges the Op wrote about. The only problem was sustaining the hatched pre-fings., would appreciate if you have a solution to that. Thank you and have a pleasant night rest.

NUVEMBARZINTL:

My brother, Excelsor had really diagonise the situation but permit me to ask these 2 questions:
(1) How many are these fishes in a pond?
(2) What's the size of the pond/tank dt U keep them?
(3) What's the volume of the water that you keep them?

Thank you...
Wishing you all the very best!!!

bendims:
Fish farmers in the house please help me. I bought some Catfish broodstocks recently and they have refused feed for 3 days now. What do I do? I've tried changing their water and refreshing them. But still yet they refuse to eat. Please house help me. Any advice?

robonski15:
Catfish may soon be out of the reach of the average Nigerian as the hike in prices of feeds has forced some fish farmers out of business, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports.


[b]Some farmers who spoke to NAN on Wednesday in Lagos described the development as worrisome, calling on government to ensure price stability in the industry. NAN reports that Skretting Feeds had in the first week of June increased the price of a bag of its 2mm feed from about N5, 000 to N8, 000. A farmer, Mr Emmanuel Ogharegbe, said that many of his colleagues had since abandoned the business, due to arbitrary hike in the prices of feeds. Ogharegbe said the price hike did not translate to an increase in the price of fish as fish traders operated a cartel that could frustrate any increase in per kilo price of fish.

Another farmer, Mrs Josephine Obi, wondered how she would survive if the price of feed continued to increase. “On June 1, I received a text message from a woman who was selling feeds to me announcing an increase in the prices of feeds. “Early this year, a Coppens Feeds increased its price and we shifted allegiance to Skretting Feeds. Now, the price of our new brand has increased by more than 50 per cent. Her colleague, Mr Olushola Ogundele, who decried the hike in feed price, appealed to the Federal Government to come up with a policy that would ensure price stability in the agricultural sector. Ogundele said that government’s intervention was critical to forestalling the scarcity of catfish in the country.

Another farmer, Mrs Beatrice Okpara, said that most of her colleagues were no longer in the farming business due to power outages and the increasing price of feeds. “The price of fish meal, a major component for formulating fish feeds, increased from N500 per kilo to about N800 per kilo in the space of two months. “If it continues like this, it will affect optimal production of fish,’’ Okpara said. Also, Mr Joseph Makinde, a fingerlings producer, said the imported feeds were critical in raising fish in the early phase of their life.

NAN recalls that Chief Tayo Akingbolagun, President of the Catfish Farmers Association of Nigeria, had on Jan. 11 told fish farmers to shun Coppens Feeds, over its arbitrary hike in prices. Akingbolagun said that the 50 per cent increment in the price of Coppens 2mm feeds, was a reflection of the company’s unfriendly posture in the market. He said that the 2mm Coppens Feeds being sold for N5, 000 suddenly increased to N7, 500 during the yuletide, a development that put many farmers into difficulty[/b].

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/06/catfish-scarcity-looms/

chilanfarms:
Oga Rob! Let's form a cartel too... let move to local feed they will come begging us wiv their air-blown feed. We hav ppl that feed 8weeks seed local feed and @ 5months buyers complain of over-weight. I don't use artemia for my frie i use local for dem n I hav 95% success rate. My fish buyers call everyday to ask if I hav fish or hav som1 dt wana sell they buy @ my price now. My final advice to farmers is to stock wat deh can feed. Best of Luck!!!

chilanfarms:
Oga Rob! Let's form a cartel too... let move to local feed they will come begging us wiv their air-blown feed. We hav ppl that feed 8weeks seed local feed and @ 5months buyers complain of over-weight. I don't use artemia for my frie i use local for dem n I hav 95% success rate. My fish buyers call everyday to ask if I hav fish or hav som1 dt wana sell they buy @ my price now. My final advice to farmers is to stock wat deh can feed. Best of Luck!!!

GarbaNigLtd:
Buy with full confidence.