Hi all.
Bump this page while searching for jade perch and grouper info.
Just wanna give some suggestion on aquaculture and current market to share with you all.

For info, I'm working in an aquaculture company in Malaysia rearing freshwater fish.

Tilapia,
market price now (ex-farm) is around RM6-RM6.50. Don't expect it to higher than that... rarely happen unless you market your own fish. Pond culture is still the best method of earning $$ rearing this fish compare to other type of culture system.

Soon Hock.
Till date, I haven't seen anyone successfully grow Soon Hock and get back their ROI. Like ParaOptical said: fight fight fight and die die die are the big problem. Their growth rate are also very slow....

*Happy Gal* A lot of people selling marble Goby fry in the market but no one want to rear it. Just like your BF said, crazy to rear this fish till big.... restaurant will buy soon hock at RM60-70/kg...and they usually want fish that is 3-5kg big. Even if you rear this fish in best condition, I doubt it will reach 1kg/year.

Jade Perch.
Interesting fish at the moment. Probably overprice, seriously I don't know. Let's just hope this fish is not another aquaculture scam like the canvas tank project.

This post has been edited by 100n: Feb 16 2011, 04:05 PM

Marble goby need 10 salinity to successfully spawn the eggs and the survivability of the fish. Better get your BF here to check out his theory portion notes.

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Added on February 16, 2011, 5:05 pmHi, Michael. Yup, I knew him. Sadly for Jade Perch... the Omega-3 precursors claimed by the marketing sector regarding the fish is a bit suspicious.
Check out this link Jade Perch OM3

My boss contacted CSIRO regarding their claimed on Jade Perch consist highest OM3 in all freshwater fish. Dr. Peter Nichols gave us the report (attachment). Its true that the result shown that the fish have higher level of OM3 compare with other freshwater fish in Australia. However, the marketing side did not inform the consumer that, when the research was done, the feed the fish with OM3 diet.

So, In Malaysia.The question is, do you think any farmer here will feed the fish with OM3 diet to grow the fish?

This post has been edited by 100n: Feb 16 2011, 05:07 PM


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Go aquarium shop. Buy 10 3" soon hock. Tell him to rear those 10 soon hock for 3 month. If he can grow the fish to 5", then only talk.

The main question here is, why of all type of fish, your bf still wanna do soon hock? breeding some more...zzz

If he can actually breed the fish and rear it to 3" with 5% successful rate (continuous for 6 cycle). He can actually get fisheries grant and no need to spend a dime on hatchery.

Seriously, if he can do that.. a lot of farmer going to start climb up to 14th floor.

(If he is super serious on breeding this fish, He better talk to Prof. Seno in University Malaysia Sabah...).

There's a few people which actually manage to breed this fish in the market. However, whether they can produce it every month is questionable. Furthermore, most of them won't share most of the information to stranger.

Prof. Seno is one of the guy that actually successfully breed and rear soon hock till juvenile and capable to repeat it again and again. His survival rate on breeding and rearing the fish is about 5%-10% (data he gave in 2009). The thing with him is, he is an educationists. They published their result in International journal and have proper hatchery and nursery for Marble Goby research. Thus, more reliable. Even if they want to bullshit anyone...there's will be some implication on their status.