Is Red tilapia and Patin viable for aquaculture commercially now a days? Is there an estimated price?

Also if I want to make my own feed for the above species, can anyone provide a good recipe of the above two types of fish??. TIA.

"Pai seh" currently we are only keeping a few red tilapia in a natural pond to understand if.....
1. We know how to keep them alive and healthy.
2. Understand the cost components
3. Understand the market situation and options
4. Understand the risk at our farm. Especially erosion from other places during monsoon.
5. Understand what other things we can do at the farm together with growing tilapia.

At the moment, if we can break even, we will be very happy liao. For now, it's more of a learning process.

And I agree, risk exist everywhere. But if you never do, you will never know, so we taking baby steps. 😁 Do slowly and keeping our eyes Wide open. 😁

Oh, 😁 You're right.

Currently we are using about 4-5kg of commercial feed a day only, so we are still far from doing it ourselves.

It more for calculation and projection. At the same time understanding the science of it.

But using solely commercial feed, we are realizing that we can only do retail sales. So looking for places where we can reduce cost, so that bulk selling is also a viable option.

That our plan for now, to accumulate retail sale first. We did get enquiries for bulk but it's beyond us for now.

Thanks.

Wonder anyone else into freshwater aquaculture? Or looking to get into it?

Aquaponics on commercial basis too?

I suggest you split the project into two phase if you are getting into aquaponics. First ensure that your fish culture is proceeding well before the getting into the plant growing. Or else you might be overwhelme with too many problems.

I think nutrients balancing will be much tougher for aquaponics, especially the micro.

Otherwise start on a smaller scale in your own back yard to have a feel of what's its like. A simple setup will let you understand the fundamentals of aquaphonics and it's challenges. You might end up just liking the aquaculture part of the hydroponics part .

Anyway Keep us updated, this thread is pretty dead now.... Need some life 😁