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What Is The Existing Process of Feeding A Tilapia in Your Pond?
What Is The Existing Process of Feeding A Tilapia in Your Pond?
What Is The Existing Process of Feeding A Tilapia in Your Pond?
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We use the manual process of feeding tilapias. We throw the feeds onto the
pond.
2. What are the problems that you encounter in feeding the Tilapias?
Recently because of the cold weather, the amounts of food they eat in a
day are being lessened because of the temperature. This summer when the
temperature is high, they did not eat that much. There are certain
temperature that should be met so that they will reach the right feeding
behavior. It means when the temperature is low they eat less and in a high
temperature they eat less but depends on the quantity of tilapias on the
pond.
This depends on the size of the fish. From fingerlings to juvenile 3-4x/day ,
when it is on 3rd month it becomes 2x/day until you can harvest it. You
The amount of feed varies on its size. From size 24-14, in tilapia, the higher
the size the smaller it is, the lower the size the big it is.
rate)x(Survival rate)
Daily Feed Ration =
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(Feeding frequency)
The total number of stacks is the number of fish on the pond. The average
body weight was being sample; you will get the 10% of the total number of
stacks then you will weigh it and divide it on the 10% of the population. The
feeding rate depends on the size of the fish, for fingerlings, the feeding rate
is 10%-15%, for juvenile, the feeding rate is 5%-10%, for adult, the feeding
rate is 2%-5%. Note that you have to get the highest number of percentage.
The standard survival rate is 80%. Feeding frequency is how many times
Every 2 weeks you have to sample as their average body weight changes.
You have to sample monthly so you can get its specific individual average
body weight.
This depends on the size of the mouth of fish. For the brand of the feed, we
used Tathe. For fingerlings, we used the crumble. After a month, you can
Yes, we lessened the amount of feed. Sometimes you feed them 3x/day but
when it rains all day, it is okay if you don’t feed them. They are like
If your fishpond is wide like hectares, you can use this. When it is small