Hello all,

Im an executive for an aquaculture farm using technologies derived from australia. Currently our company has a fully owned facility in Kuching Sarawak producing upt o 120mT/year of Barramundi (Siakap) and Jade Perch (New sp. to M'sia).

I would like to ask you all for information, do you guys know of any institute which provide classes/clinics/seminars on fish breeding/seeding?

Reason why is, we are planning on opening up our own SPF (Specific pathogen free) hatchery and we need to train our workers. Currently, we are importing fries from Australia and with the currency playing, its getting too expensive.

Please if any of you could provide me of any information on this or if you could direct me to the right person. Mail me

Best Regards,

Darkus.

Hiya, currently we are using the Fish Protech System from Adelaide. Its really quite a simple water recirculation system. But as u know the simpler the more efficient it is. In the future expansion i've heard news of using Cell Aquaculture Tech, Yup the one thats recently on the news.

Anyone with any help on the Breeding/Seeding clinics?

well, lets just say for a 8 module farm, itll cost u 2mill, not at all associated with maju ikan, but they have sent some workers to our farm for training. They have their own farm in sepang, that is still under Fish Protech operators.

5-6mT/month/module

Help!

oy, havent checked this site since ages, i was too busy handling the farm that i forgotten about this page till this day, because... my company is sending me 10,000 pieces (2-3inches) of Marbled Goby/Soon Hock/Ketutu fry!

Ive been farming Australian Barramundi and Australian Jade perch and so far without any major problem, but now theyre sending in the Soon Hock for a trial. Ten thousand of them! And to be honest, i know very little on how to farm these fishes. Ive read Rexus general post on soon hock, and a few other reading materials. But im not confident enough that i can handle those fishes.

Please, if any have any advise and can offer guidance, mail me at far1_ed1@hotmail.com, or reply on this thread.

Oh yeah, latest report on the farm, 25mT Australian Barramundi and 15mT Jade Perch was generated from this farm up to date.

Thanks all!

Apologise for the typo Rexis,

Ill be sure to PM TS after this.

Well, i am rearing Barramundi and they are predators (very territorial) out in the sea, but once introduced into a closed up enviroment, it is found that these instinct were set aside due to smaller territory/spaces. I hope these soon hocks would do the same.

Also, my farm is using Pellets as fish feed im very worried in regards to supplying the soon hocks with live feed or other uncooked organics as their main feed. My farm is a closed circulated, the effect to the water quality would be too great i believe. ANy other feed has to be tested for any GMOs and others (disease/parrasites/etc) before is can be introduced to the farms modules.

FYI:

Australian Barramundi = Lates calcarifer, same Genus as the native Siakap/Kakap but different specie name (although they look the same to me) Its just Branding of the fish as the corporates wants them to be different than the local fish (the price too... RM25/Kg!!!!)

Jade Perch

Can try this allyouwanttofindoutaboutjadeperch link ==> "Jade Perch"

Yeah the Omega 3 is scientifically proven to have at least 3 times greater content than Salmon, and i wont deny it cause its been tested in Mardi and Sirim Labs. Mardi is even looking into converting those Om3 into tablets as health additives. And guess what... for now we are the only farm in malaysia growing and marketing it. There are other farms like us in west malaysia (Sepang; joint with LKIM and Datuk K/ Kuala Kubu Baru; wholly owned by Protech Yu[a Fish Protech Subsidiary]) also in Brunei. They opened up a farm in China (until the PRC opened up the system upsde down and copied the tech) but theyre still new and are not marketing the Jades commercially like our farm here. You can find my fishes in all Carre4 stores in Klang Valley both barra and jades.

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Added on July 11, 2008, 8:56 pmErm, who is TS again?

This post has been edited by Darkus: Jul 11 2008, 08:56 PM

Oh! TS=Thread Starter=Paraoptical
Just figured it out

The farm im managing is located in Sejingkat, Kuching, Sarawak.

The tech used are from Australia, a tech provider called 'Fish Protech', google it and youll find out a lot about it

Para, i heard that you yourself have experience in rearing Soon Hock, how did you manage its juvenile stage? My new batch will be around 2-3inches, how long do you think theyll grow to marketable size? whats their FCR with the feed you are giving them? what did you feed them with anyway? We at the farm are currently using feed pallets for fry till marketable size. Will they strive best without or with organics feed such as mealworms/bloodworms/small fishes/small prawns? Whats the feed proportion u give for each fry/fish?

Appreciatte that info bro Rexis, been reading some of the old posts, i think im gona keep up my soonhock updates here in the forum by providing info and pics as soon as i receive them. Our fry suppliers from Singapore is actually planning to let us grow the fish for them and then buy em all out at an ex-farm price. From what ive heard theyre getting the fry at around 0.40SD, most probly buying them back at 30.00SD/Kg. Although only if the farm succeed in growing them till marketable size. How are the prices of this fish nowadays?

Anyway, how much of bloodworms/fishmeals are we talking about for each fry?

Some small scales supplier do their own breeding and growing to marketable sizes. Usually easy to bred angel fish/discus/fantails etc.

Exoctic suppliers usually go for wild caught fishes, esp. the ones native to malaysia. For example, in borneo, Wild Betta from Merudi or from Brunei is categorised as exotic fish and a pair could cost outsiders USD300-500 for a pair. neogastromyzones aka borneo suckers from kapit and northern regions can cost up to USD200 a pair.

Most common exotic fish are arowarnas.

Bigger enterprises ussually have their own farm (Just google/yahoo tropical freshwater fish supplier in malaysia).
And most ornamental fish seller get their supplies from these people. Famous supplier are such as International Aquatics, aquariumfishexporter or Banli and etc.

Hope this helps.

Hello to all agriprenuers,

Im currently growing Australian Barramundi (Lates calcarifer) and have in stocked of around 8mT. About 24% is ranging from 500gm-700gm (marketable plate sized fish) and the rest ranges from 200-490gm. It is growned under a CRAS system and been fed with pallets. Fingerlings are imported direct from australia so i can assure you the best of its quality.

We sell them freshly chilled whole fish, Live, processed (gutted, gilled, scaled,), processed and individually frozen blast, and also packaged (vacuumed packed) under the brand AQ fish. All this with a opening price at RM23-25/Kg.

My question is, will the market accepts this product (in west M'sia/world) at the given price. If not any recommendation of its best selling price, considering the production costs? I know i should have gone into exporting them but where to? any suggestion/contacts/networks?

We have acchieved a production of 7mt/ month before and currently stocking in more and more so we would be achieving at least 8mT/month by next year, its a whole large scale production and its achievable. But i would like to secure buyers before we really set our mind to produce that much. Please any suggestion/help/interested buyers will be really helpful.

Thank you.