Breeding red tilapia

In mid-2005, Mr. Nguyen Hoang An in Phu Cuong commune, Tam Nong district invested over 5 million VND to build 2 bamboo rafts with the size of more than 20m ³ to breed.

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Before stocking fish, Mr. An cleaned the rafts with powdered lime and soaked the raft under the water for many days. Before that, he nursed red-tailed fish in the net of the net and gave bran to feed on bran with industrial pellets with high protein . More than 1 month after nursing, he took off the net of nets and gave the Pink has grown into rafts. Mr. Indo said: "Red tilapia is easy to raise, less sick, fish eat a lot of things such as plate, bran, water spinach, crab, snail . The care is also very easy, low loss rate; fish be properly cared for - give fish enough to eat . very fast fish! ".

Indeed, after more than 2 months of releasing into rafts and red tilapia, with an average weight of 200g each, Mr. An continued to drop into 2 rafts of 80kg of perch and 20kg of yellow catfish for breeding. The main food source of Mr. Minh's farmed fish is: pellet feed and trash fish, crab, yellow snail, and shrimp . Every day, he feeds the fish under 30kg of food and increases The amount of food goes up according to the weighting process of the fish. Every week and half a month, he mixes Tetra and Vitamin C with food to prevent intestinal disease and increases resistance, stimulating the growth of fish farming .

Thanks to careful care, the polyculture of fish in 2 rafts placed under Dong Tien canal behind the house has increased rapidly, the rate of loss is low . So far, after more than 6 months of farming, Mr. An has kept the rafts and more than 1.3 tons of red tilapia were harvested; over 200kg of perch and over 50kg of commercial catfish, total income is nearly 25 million VND, except for all investment and care costs, Nguyen Hoang An's family has profit of over 13 million VND! Mr. India is continuing to expand the model of raising carp in rafts and providing technical guidance for farmers who need to raise.