One of the things that I have ever been dreaming about for a long period is setting up a fish farming incubation business environment where mature fish farmers can always get the armature ones to rear/train. Before proceeding with this writing, I’ll like to salute every member of this community especially @jacobpeacock and admin and moderators for the effort they have been contributing to making sure that the community is progressing just like others. This is the first time I’m making a post here and from now on, it will be continued weekly.
Like I said from the beginning that it has always been my dream to achieve a thriving fish farming incubation business environment not minding that Fish farming was never my profession but I have a friend whom I have been learning from for some months now.
Whenever I’m with this friend of mine who studied Agriculture/fishery as a profession, he used to teach me about how to prepare for the fish farming incubation business but then, I was thinking that it will never be successful not until now that I gave it a try.
One of the things that prompted me more about the fish incubation business was how my friend used to tell me that he only buys two mature female catfish and one male just to incubate by removing the female eggs through the help of ovulin drugs and then hatch the eggs with the male milt (sperm) as the case may be.
My friend also told me that after the two eggs from the female catfish are successfully incubated that he can get thousands of fish which he will only groom for just one month and six-day and then sell to fish farmers. He told me that he doesn’t spend more than $50 to run the catfish incubation processes but he makes more than $350-$450 profit within the month period of the business.
After all the explanations and training got from my friend about catfish incubation, I thought about the business and decided to give it a try. It is not just easy to set up a standard catfish incubation environment because it may require a lot of capital to start with but one can still achieve this by making an initial plan about the business through early savings.
Things to consider before venturing into such business:
Before entering into fish farming of any kind, you must consider having a conducive environment that will suit the level and type of fish farming business that you’ll be embarking on. The catfish farming business environment needs to be a swampy or water environment in order to keep the fish body at normal temperature.
You must have adequate capital before considering entering into a catfish incubation business because every successful business requires capital. You need money to buy both the female and male catfish before hatching them. The drugs and every other thing to be done require cash.
Procedures in setting a fish farming incubation:
I have successfully secured the environment for the catfish incubation.
I make sure that the tank, rubber, and every other material for the catfish incubation are acquired.
A bole hole for water supply was provided.
A connection for the water supply from the bole hole to the catfish incubation house was achieved.
Coppen 0.2-3 catfish food was achieved.
Ovulation syrup drugs known as Ovulin for the catfish egg to be hatched were achieved.
The complete catfish incubation environment was achieved.
