you can try CPR feeds in rawang.
200-300 bag no issue.

If you are ordering even more maybe you can go straight to the factory and negotiate a price. Usually the popular brands are star feed and dindings

Question

1. Where to find land for rent, flat? Mudah is mostly scam, land not flat. Gave different picture, not real land. I spend time, toll, petrol, motel to visit, but nothing solid.
2. Supplier of Greenhouse. Been searching internet, mostly not clear.
Abandoned greenhouse aka 2nd hand for sale also very rare. Willing to get such.

klchong:

Put it this way, tilapia production is the second largest freshwater fish production in the world. There are many buyers, and the trend, especially in the US is increasing, since tilapia is considered by many to be a sustainable fish species. Compared to pangasius (aka patin), acceptance of tilapia by the food production industry is generally good over there.

However, in Malaysia, there's still a lot of stigma associated with the fish. Many Malaysians consider tilapia a trash fish, and even a "poor man's fish". At one point, red tilapia was doing very well, being sold as "cherry snapper", until that advertisement came up informing people that cherry snapper is actually red tilapia. Pangasius on the other hand is extremely popular (sutchi, basa, "dory", etc.).

My suggestion is that you go get fries of the new hybrid variety, which is >95% male. Male tilapia grow a lot faster than females, and a lot more uniform. In addition, monosex culture tend to produce larger fish. Mixed sex cultures tend to result in over-crowding and competition for food, and therefore smaller fish. Remember, tilapia reach sexual maturity very fast, so having females in the pond is not such a great idea.

Alternatively, if you could, try sourcing pure Mozambique tilapia (Oreochromis mossambicus) and Wami tilapia (Oreochromis urolepis hornorum); cross breeding the female of the former with the male of latter will produce a >95% male population in the F1. The tedious part, however, is maintaining the pure lines of those two, in order to ensure that you have stock to recreate the F1 generations. Or you could also cross Mozambique tilapia with Blue tilapia (Oreochromis aureus). Note that having Mozambique tilapia genetics allows the hybrid to tolerate salt water conditions, and more bioaccumulation of minerals.

I guess it is alright in having the tilapia in your pond, but if you want to improve your existing stock, then I would suggest that you take our only selected broodstock; the simplest selection method is to single out the largest males by size, weight, and health, and choose mid-sized to large females of good health. Develop a breeding system, where a sample size of the offspring of each specific cross is monitored. That way you can keep improving your existing broodstock.

That saying, the next hurdle is actually marketing the fish. As I said before, local stigma of the fish inhibits marketing to quite some extent. However, a key world you should have with you at all times is this: Value-Add.

Fresh fish is without a doubt much preferred by Malaysians, but so are many fish-products. You may explore processing your larger tilapia fish for fillets, and the smaller ones for fish paste, fish ball, etc. By products, such as bones, scales, gut material etc. can be treated with softening agents (eg. papain) and processed into animal feed additives. The liquid by product from the entire process could also be further processed either as a liquid feed culture for hydroponics, or fertilizer.

On a side note, I'm personally not in favor of raising fish in earthen ponds, unless you have a separate cement/poly purging pond. One is due to groundwater leaching; there's always the danger of toxic aluminate leaching, which may not lead to fish kill, but could result in the fish flesh accumulating toxins. Second, is due to general hygiene; you wouldn't want nematodes etc. present in your fish flesh.

Its easy if you live in the rurals

Bsf larvae are native to our climate, I am in Sabah and I tried theme once, its easy in the first few stages, the hardest part is to make the adults mating and reproduce.

I luree mine myself.

There are many ways to create the lure bin from the net.

Easiest one is just buy a regular rubbish bin, poke few holes on the cover, hang some corrugated box as their egg laying nest, throw in some fruits that is going to rot soon or try to buu some xhicken feed and put some water to ferment them.

Don't put under direct sunlight or expose to rain, the adult will soon smelled the rotten food and will lay eggs on the corrugated box
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Yo guys, I'd like to join the farming enthusiast club. Planting chili on fertigation early Dec and we're ready to harvest early March. If u guys need any information on chili fertigation, feel free to ask. I'd like to help out if I can.

Hi all,
i'm keen to start a small scale aquaculture poc, just wondering if i'm required a licence for it.

I'm planning to build a RAS system for jade perch with two 5000 liter tank. I would like to know the max stocking density which I could stock without causing significant stunt issue.

Not much info on google, most source say stocking density about max 40pcs per meter cube based on aquaphonics guys. Appriciate If anyone here could share some thought on this.

I'm planning to stock 500 per tank or 100 fish per meter cube.Turn over rate will be 3x or 15000L per hour per tank. Is it sufficient ?

Where you get the quotation of the RAS system? How big it will be for your 5000 litre water tank? For perch, as far as I read shows 40-50kg per cubic metre. With the perch can grows up to 800g (7 months), you can raise up to 300 fish at one time.

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Bigger problem will be your ras system. In general 5 fish per m3 is a very acceptabl. Rate

Hmmm 50 fish in a 10000 liter tank?  You sure about this?

That's why I said your ras system is bigger problem. If you want to increase density you better make sure your system can handle the waste.

If your ras system is not industrial don't bother else you'll have a lot of dead fish or very slow growth.

Most people don't even know what is needed to "clean" the water. Just saying. I'm not implying that about you. But if you were an expert on ras systems you would know how much waste your system can handle and hence how much fish you could put

Hi all,
i'm keen to start a small scale aquaculture poc, just wondering if i'm required a licence for it.

I'm planning to build a RAS system for jade perch with two 5000 liter tank. I would like to know the max stocking density which I could stock without causing significant stunt issue.

Not much info on google, most source say stocking density about max 40pcs per meter cube based on aquaphonics guys. Appriciate If anyone here could share some thought on this.

I'm planning to stock 500 per tank or 100 fish per meter cube.Turn over rate will be 3x or 15000L per hour per tank. Is it sufficient ?

I'm still designing the bio filter. The system will consist a expandable moving bed reactor where additional tank can be connected to cope with the bio load, clarifier , a tank for static media and last not least a expandable trickle/ co2 stripper to increase the total dissolve oxygen. The cost of media meterial alone would set me back around 4k. I'm still designing the filter with the capability to covert few kg of feed daily.

You seems to had experience in ras system mind to share more?

I am not an expert in ras. But I have been fish farming. I had to learn a bit about ras when I wanted to set up a transit pond last time.

Long story short I end up just changing water whenever my waste levels get too high.

In my pond I stock about 10000 tilapia. At the end of the harvest I can be feeding up to 140kg of food a day. And that is just for 1 pond. Find me a ras system to handle that kind of load.

On a smaller scale you would still have to be able to handle a bit more than just a few kg of food a day. You need to add a bit more because the fish breathe out waste as well and that will happen regardless if you feed them or not.