tubifex worms?? Wat's that??

I'm thinking of venturing into Aquaculture business as a monitoring equipment supplier. I plan to develop software and hardware to assist in monitoring an aquaculture farm. I'm in feasibility study stage right now and wondering if some of you aquaculturist can help me answer some questions? I'll PM you the 'survey' to explain more on what I plan to do and get your opinions on it.

Thanks!

me and my friends wanna a start a kelah fish farm..which we heard can reach about 1k per kg of live fish..
is it true?
we actually trying from phase to phase since we still studying..
our fist batch will consist only 60 baby kelah..
anyone here actually involves in this bussines?
can anyone help me?
thanks.

Good Luck !
No worries k.. keep it up
you are heading somewhere ... Dont get dissapointed if all of your fishes died out of a sudden.. cause it will.. =)
Dont spend too much first bro . Take it slow

Good luck!

Not really keen on fish farming but do you have the kind of resource to raise the baby fish until marketable size?

For fish farming, Red Tilapia is easier to breed and the market in Malaysia is good.

More restaurant serve them cause they don't cause much.

For your information, breeding Kelah and farming them is not an easy task. It's better if you have some aquaculture basic to get involved in fish farming.

Ya, red tilapia is certainly easier to breed and farm. I've found out that farming tilapai, keli or even patin does generate some income (after one year practical experiences).

And above, so the idea is to get a feel of fish farming first rather then hoping to one step to success. And more importantly, dont give up easily.

Yes, talapia is easy to breed, and can be harvested in as little as 6 months, and you are not even feeding them commercial fish feed, just fermented rice bran for most of the time. But of course, if you want them to grow until bigger size u need more time and better feed, but still only take less then a year.

Keli is even easier to breed, you not even using pond, just use poly tank enough.

This post has been edited by rexis: Dec 31 2009, 12:09 AM

any meeting for people in this business? I am very interested =)
I am willing to share my knowledge about SOON HOCK =D

Guys,

This is to serve notice to potential worm farmer who are interested in the worm farming. Please ensure that you refrain yourselves fom dealing with Wayne Fauser the so called wormman from Australia.

We have met more than 10 people all around Malaysia right from Perlist to Sabah who claimed they invested in Wayne Fause 's project. But they didn't get their so called "TONS and TONS of WORMS". All but promises.

Some of the projects is more than 1 year long without seeing 1 kg of worms.

Thus, collectively, a police report was lodged against WAYNE FAUSER - theWormMan or CON?

Please read through this blog for details:

http://thewormman-police-report.blogspot.c...yne-fauser.html

Before departing with your money, ask yourself if is his deal is TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE?


Faithfully,

Stupid Victim of Wayne Fauser - thewormman

i'm interested in meeting ppl in this business as well. do let me know if there's any gathering.

do you breed soon hock?Im interested too

Hi All,
I am new here. I have a piece of agricultural land(3 acres) facing the Straits of Malacca and is a short distant walk to the Rambah Beach, Pontian. I am told Rambah Beach is frequented by tourists as well as locals. I am thinking of transforming my little forest into an "Integrated Farm" where I can sell "Fresh from the farm" produce directly to the tourists as well as locals.

Are there enthusiasts/professionals who can share his/her knowledge or experience in running an integrated farm? or are interested to work with me in setting up and running the farm?

Since I am inexperienced, I am open to all feasible ideas and recommendations.

Thanks, hisland777

If you want to hire, you can pm me..

Recently I came across a piece of news in Daily Express Sabah regarding some 3,000 got cheated up to RM25mil in vermiculture projects, wow. A few while ago, I read about victims from a crab farming investment using recycle water system suffered the same fate of losing their hard earned money.

The moral of the story is there is no free lunch under the sun.

One must remember that agriculture is not some get rich quick plan where you can multiply your investment with little time and effort. The purpose of agriculture as well as any other businesses is to meet demand, if there is no demand, where the bloody hell did you get your returns?

There is a value in vermiculture, but most of the investors has a very wrong concept of treating that as a money printing machine. Yea, rite, worms fetch RM400 monthly and they double the population every months, so can I think that I can get 1x2^11 of your investment back in a year? A thinking like that not only neglect the real growing situation(space, density, stress, sickness, food, care, etc), it also neglect the fact about market demand, who the hell want to spend RM400 on 1 kg of earthworm on regular basis or even RM20 on 1 kg of vermicompost? The farmers out there can barely afford the much cheaper yet expensive chemical fertilizer what are the changes they will spend big bucks on the luxury worm poo?

Furthermore, worm compost has very high N nutrient, but poor in P and K. You still need to put chemical PK.

3,000 cheated of RM25mil in worm-breeding projects

I admire your ambitious plan. You can refer many rose/strawberry farms in Cameron highland as example.

At a piece of land of only 3 acres, I have visited a vege farm in Cameron highland which also operated a steamboat restaurant. So the visitors can while having fresh picked vege steamboat meal, they can have fun and take picture in your farm.

I think this will be much feasible as all you need to do is to set up a farm, a kitchen, and dining area. Vege is fast growing you will be in business in no time! Of course, you can also sell frozen food should your customers do not plan to go vegetarian.

However your primary objective should be getting profitable by supplying produces to pasar borong before you can have any vision 2020, to get yourself a firm ground and get things running.

I am interested to know whats your plan is, do PM me should you made up your mind.

This post has been edited by rexis: Jan 15 2010, 09:36 AM

Hi rexis,
Thank you for your advice and suggestion. If I had to sell my produces through the pasar borong, then I believe the returns from my 3 acre land would be insufficient to breakeven.
I like the idea of running a kitchen and a stall to sell frozen foods as well as fresh farm produce to the customers. I am also exploring the possibilities of bringing in the tourists from Singapore since they also visit the Rambah beach/Bugis museum which is nearby. Most Singaporean live in Hdb apartments with clean, sheltered walkway and they have little opportunity of mingling with nature's settings.
That's why I thought of running an "Integrated Farm" where all the animals(cows,goats etc),birds(hens, ducks etc), fish(freshwater), fruits and vegetables grow in symbiotic relationship to one another.
This is my dream but I do not have the expertise or experience to proceed from here. Any enthusiast or expert here who could shed some light on this? Or are interested to join me?

do u think culturing ONLY soon hock will give profit?
as the growth rate of soon hock is far slower than others ..

i got an offer of a piece of land in slim river,
the owner willing to pump in 300K for this biz ...

wat do u think?

does any one has experience in cultivating.. leeches?

So what do you want to know?

Imho, it is for niche market like medical/cosmetic industry and then local leech farmers mostly make their profit by selling baby leeches to other investors like you.

But seriously, what do yo know and what do you want to find out?

i heard from a friend of mine it is a lucrative business that can be considered. Is it difficult to breed and rare them ?is there market for them in malaysia ?

do you require a large space to breed and cultivate them ?

is there any specific species that is only marketable ?

regards