Catfish Hatchery

Catfish hatcheries and enlargement are the two businesses that can be done by catfish farmers, the enlargement we need the seed obtained from catfish hatchery operations, who want to know the catfish farming can read my previous article on Raising catfish. At catfish hatchery there are several steps that need to be done

Preparation of pond for spawning process can use ground pool or pond tarp sizes are not too big. Filled with clean water, do not forget to place the eggs can be attached to the fibers.

Preparation of catfish good breeders is aged one year or weight has reached about 1 Kg. To distinguish the breeding males and females can be seen gender way if there is a long protrusion means male, whereas if there is no bulge means female. from the stomach can also be distinguished usually females ready to breed to have a distended abdomen. A great feature of sires can be seen from the absence of defects, agile and ripe gonads. Furthermore, breeders who are ready entered into the spawning pond by some amount, do not kebanyakan. If success eggs will stick to the fibers and hatch.

Maintenance larvae after hatching catfish catfish still bring a food supply for 3 days. the cleanliness of the water in the pool must be maintained, if need be aerotor. after eating catfish bag inventory runs out, the larvae can be fed in the form of egg yolk mixed with 1 liter of water. after the 7-day-old larvae of silk worms can be fed up to the age of 3 weeks.

After the larvae can be fed pellets delicate, and can put to the pool because it can be called as a seed catfish. Pool with a water height of 20 cm so that the seeds can be to the surface to take in oxygen. The seed that has been measuring 3 cm were fed pellets in the form of small granules up to size 7 cm, and ready for harvest