Tilapia have a distinctive flavor. These fish are often presented in the table famous restaurants. Tilapia can be one of the most promising business opportunities for the farmers. Raising Tilapia including quite easy. Let us refer to the following description.
In doing tilapia fish farming there are some things we need to prepare:
1. Preparation Swimming
The most important thing in tilapia fish farming is a pool. Swimming as a breeding tilapia should dipersiapakan maximum, through the following stages:
Drying ponds;
Dike repair, duct intake and expenditure;
Liming with the size of 25-1000 g / m2;
Fertilization with manure 500 g / m2, urea 15 grams / m2 and TSP g / m2 .;
Filling the pool water;
Can be carried out by spraying with pesticides;
To prevent animal / other fish entered, it can be mounted on the entrance of the water filter;
Add water to a depth of 80-150 cm, then close the door intake and expenditure, let stagnant water;
Spreading Tilapia performed after 5-7 days of water filling the pool.
2. Seed Penerban Tilapia
The next thing we need to do is on the fifth day after the seventh day samapai filling the pond water will be done stocking tilapia. In stocking beni we need to consider the size of the fish seed propagated should be between 8-12 cm, or the size of the weight of 30 grams / tail with the stocking around 5-10 individuals / m2. Care tilapia performed for 6 months or until the size of the weight of tilapia has reached 400-600 grams / tail.
3. Feeding
We need to understand that tilapia require natural food, but we still have to provide artificial food in order to get maximum results. Food tilapia is usually in the form of bran, coconut pulp, pellets and also leftovers kitchen.
Usually feeding is done with the following sizes:
1. Protein 20-30%;
2. Fat 70% (max.);
3. Carbohydrates 63-73%.
4. Pakanyaberupa greenery are:
- Kaliandra
- Kalikina or amethyst;
- Kipat
- Kihujan
4. Diseases
Tilapia very rescan exposed to pests and diseases, or various things that inhibit the growth of fish, such as population overcrowding, lack of food, poor handling and so on. The most effective solution is to adopt better conditions in the fish pond.
If it is the case of serious illness in a pond tilapia, then all efforts will be too late and useless. Healing by giving antibiotics or fungicide to the entire pool will cost quite expensive. So try not to be an experienced cases like above.
To overcome this, it is one of the most common thing to do is to do prevention is cheaper than treatment, namely by recourse to drain the pond and perform setup from the beginning.
4. Harvesting Tilapia
We can harvest tilapia after treatment reaches 4-6 months. In general Tilapia at 4-6 months of maintenance would have bevariasi weight of between 400-600 grams / tail.
If at the time of harvesting of fish size is not as desired, harvesting can be done through the stages. Namely the harvesting of fish according to market needs. In the first stage by using nets and each subsequent month gradually.
Harvesting can also be easily done in a way to drain the pond completely or partially. If the fish are harvested as a whole, then the drained pool at all. However, when to harvest all at once then only partially water discharged.
