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    The new buzz word from the wife, in this house...fish farming!

    Do we have any fish farmers on the forum? Maybe someone knows if it's a profitable business. What fish are best to farm? How do you determine the cost of fish food over the growing period of a fish...or a school of fish.

    At the moment we have what's left of 800 fingerlings given to us by local ag office. They gave us 150kg of 25% protein fish food so, so far we haven't spent a baht.

    As the klong drains into the dam when the water is high...not for the last 2 weeks though...we have scored a few extra fish! We have more fingerlings up to 2cm. Other fish up to approx 5cm, 8cm and 12cm. As of Friday I have increased feeding to twice a day as I noticed the bigger fish eat more than one or 2 or 3 food prills! The fingerlings as nibbling on one prill!

    Not being a fish expert all I can say is some are silver and some are black! When we have a fishing rod or net we may get some pixs. And NO! The wife doesn't know the English names for them either! Seems like there is a lot to learn....

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    A member on here name of 'Tiscar' used to farm catfish. Plenty of useful info by him still available if you care to look him up. His biggest problems was getting the catfish to produce fingerlings and obtain feedstuff. Once you can produce your own fingerlings it is game on as far as I know.

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    555! Good response! My god! I thought my situation was bad enough but you sir must be a saint to live in that mad house! My bad for not thinking it through for a few more years (decades) before I moved to the Rsole of the world.

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    Thanks for the tip. After I started this thread I found some other threads on fish.

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