How to Cattle Eels for Beginners

How to Cattle Eels for Beginners

1. Place of Eels

The first thing we must prepare is a means for eel cultivation. There are many choices of eel facilities that we can use. Everything of course has advantages and disadvantages of each.

a. Pond Tarpaulins

The first eel means is to use a tarpaulin pond. For the size of the tarpaulins we use adjusted with the number of eels that we will cultivate. For ideal size is 50-100 tail / m.

Need to be equally we know, eels usually remove a kind of mucus which is a natural metabolism to survive. If the mucus is piled up and in large quantities will certainly damage the water quality.

Therefore, we should replace the water if the water quality is damaged. We can do a sipon or dispose of the bottom water with a suction pump then fill it with new water.

Well, this tips from me based on personal experience, because it is too much trouble if you have to dispose of water by using a water pump, you can create a drain in the middle. If in cultivation this term is known as the center drain system. The pond we make conical to the middle, so the center of the pond deeper than the edge of the pool. For how to make it very easy. Bottom line, the water will be wasted once we discharge the pipe without using a pump.

With the center drain system of water control so very easy. After the water we throw enough and then we add new water.

b. Tong / Drum

In addition to using tarp, barrels or drums can also be a means of eel cultivation. Here's how to make a cask pool for eels:

Clean the barrel / drum to clean especially on the inside Make a longitudinal hole in the drum Drum laying on the ground flat and also give the wedge on the right and left so that the drum is not rolled Do not forget to make also the drain under the last barrel also shade from the sun so the eel is not too hot, Eel grown media is one of the keys to success in eel farming. With a composition that fits on this tunbuh media that determines sooner or later eel growth beyond the feed factor. For ponds from used vats using media such as dried mud, compost, rice straw of TSP fertilizer, and stater microorganisms. Here are tips on making a growing eel media for used drum ponds.

The drum base is given a layer of straw with a thickness of 50 cm. Then straw flush with stater microorganisms. Composition 1 liter per drum Next is given a layer of compost as high as 5 cm, can also use manure or humus soil The last layer is dry mud mixed with 5kg TSP fertilizer. The last layer is as high as 25 cm.Stay the input of clean water into the drum as high as 15 cm and let stand for 2 weeks before the eels are included because it must go through the process of fermentation first.

c. Tub Cement

Permanent tub is a means of cultivation of the next eel. Of course permanent ponds require a good amount of capital to bolt it. But of course with many advantages. Well, just as with tarpaulin ponds, you should make a sewage system with a drain sitem center.

d. Bak Fiber

Bak fiber can also be used as a tool for cultivation eel. The cost we spend is of course more expensive for the provision of fiber bathtub.

2. Selection of Eels Seed

Once we have a place that corresponds to the number of eels we will cultivate, the next step is to choose the eel seeds. There are several things to note before we choose the puppies we will grow. Here are the criteria of good eels tillers to be reared:

a. Choose Eel Seeds Wounded Free

The first tip to choose eel seeds is to keep the seeds free of the wounds either due to friction with rough objects or because of disease, because it can be transmitted to others.

b. Not Limp when Holded

Make sure the eel seeds to be reared are not soft, karen eels have a hard body,

c. Choose a Lively Eel

Eels have an aggressive nature and are rarely silent even when we grasp will usually try to escape. If you find any puppies whose flag ceremony (top oak) should be taken apart from the others. A good eel will have a calm but lively character, the eel will take the oxygen up quickly and then back down again.

d. Seed Uniform Seed Size

This is quite important, because with a uniform size there is usually no dominance in eating later. If there are eels that are larger will usually be more dominant later. The big ones are big and small ones are slow to big. You should mensortis eel at least 3 weeks to keep the size uniform.

3. Number of Ideal Eel Stakes

Eels need enough space to grow optimally. When space or space owned small i biasnaya grow eel will not be maximal, can dwarf, slow growth and water quickly broken. For optimal density of eel seeds should be the size of 10-12 cm length ranges from 50-100 tail / m2.

A few tips on eels, try to spread the seeds in the morning or evening to avoid the stress of fish. For seedlings of natural catches should be quarantined for 1-2 days. Quarantine process is done by putting seeds in clean running water. Give the egg egg whites during the quarantine process. Arrange the water circulation thoroughly. Do not be too heavy (water like puddles of rice fields) is important to occur water circulation. Also set the water depth, it affects the eel posture. Water is too deep will make the eel move a lot to take oxygen from the surface, so the eel will be thinner.

4. Feeding During Eels

If the seeds we have to spread, now is the time we raised the eel seeds. For the percentage of feed, should give 5-20% of body weight / day. Over time usually we will get used to and can use the feeling when the fish is full or still hungry.

Try to keep the feed is always sufficient for the eel is not cannibal. Feeding can be in the afternoon because eels usually find prey in the afternoon and evening. To feed can be worm lor, red worms, lumbricus worms, cere fish, cithol fish, guppy fish, goldfish, tadpoles, frog hulls, snails / rice fields, hongkong caterpillars and many others.

5. Eels harvesting process

After about 3 - 4 months of cultivation process, then eels are usually can be harvested. With an average weight of about 3-5 tail / perkilonya, with selling price 32.000 / kg. For harvest size depends on market demand. If 3 -5 tail is too big can be reduced again.

For our own profit we can calculate with selurubuh operational costs and initial capital to buy seeds, feed and support equipment and cultivation facilities.

The price of seed itself for eel average length of 6-11cm dipjual market around Rp.55.000 / kg (content 75-110 ekor / kg). Well so we can calculate how much profit we can get.

Likewise how to guide eel livestock for beginners that you can apply may be useful and become a business idea to support your economy as a family.

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