Features carp breeding at home

In the human diet, a product such as fish must necessarily be present. You can buy it in any store or market, but you can also grow it yourself:Of all freshwater fish species, the relative of wild river carp is most beneficial for breeding - carp. It is about how to breed this fish in an infield area in small ponds or basins and will be discussed in this article.

The advantages and disadvantages of carp breeding

Self-cultivation of carp has both advantages and disadvantages.

Benefits:

• Fast growth- In contrast to other representatives of his family, this cultural species grows very fast, reaching a weight of 400-500 g by the end of the first year. At the end of the second year, the fish is able to achieve a commercial weight of 1 kg.
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• Unpretentiousness- carp is not so fond of oxygen in the water as most freshwater freshwater fish.
• High quality meat- it has a soft, tasty fish and has a relatively small amount of small bones.

Disadvantages:

• The frequent incidencefish with a very dense population of its capacity
• Initial Costsfor the purchase of fry and the pool is quite high

Technology of breeding at home

Purchase of fry

Buy fry should onlyin specialized fish farmswho have a good reputation and have been working for a long time.

To transport the purchased fry is better in spacious buckets or fishing canes.It is better to take water from a pond or lake,in extreme cases - rain.

Catering - how and how to feed

Feed the neglected carp twice a day:

• Early in the morning- when the sun rose and the water warmed up sufficiently
• In the evening, before sunset

It is better to use food as:

• Finely chopped rainworms
• Fodderbloodworms
• Larvaecaddis
• Steamed cereals- oats, wheat, barley
• Breadrye

To ensure that in the basin there are also all kinds of bottom microorganisms, small crustaceans, by which carp is fed into it, it is necessary to periodically add water from the nearby pond or lake. Just periodically, you should feed the fish with special fodders.

In order to periodically catch the largest specimensFeed the fish in the same place,making in it a small tray in which feed will be filled

Fodder should be filled in small portions so that it is completely eaten by the fish, and does not fall to the bottom of the container, rotting there with time and causing a deterioration in water quality.

Running fish into the pool

Start the purchased fry should be either in spring or in autumn.

Running fry in the spring is necessary whenthe water warmed to the temperature22-25 ° C.

Conditions of maintenance and cultivation

Swimming pool, location and size

You can buy a swimming pool ready plastic, or pour yourself.

The most convenient for growing carp on the plot or dacha is a round container made of plastic or polypropylenediameter from 2 to 3 meters and a depth of at least, meters.

It is better to position the container in such a way that part of it is for most of the day in the summer sunlit, and the other - was in the shade. Such an arrangement will help to avoid overheating of the water and will enable the fish in the heat to hide in a cool shade.

Also, pools can be placed in frame greenhouses or a garage.

Water quality

Water in the pool should be updated.For this purpose, the following system is mounted:

• Filter with pumpPicking up water from a nearby stream or small river
• The main line of polyethylene pipeConnected to the pump and supplying water to the tank
• Drain lineA polyethylene pipe with a larger diameter than the supply pipe. Have a drain line at the bottom of the tank and lead out to a stream or a river, installing on the end a faucet or a plug

If there is no river or stream nearby, then it is necessary to use water from the well, pumped into the pool by a submersible pump with a filter. The discharge of water in this case must be carried out through a filter into the sewer

Temperature

Water in the basin during the growth and development of fishshould be heated to a temperature of at least22-25 ° C,but not more than 30 ° C.

Such a temperature background is achieved by placing the container on a sunny spot and periodically replacing (draining) part of the water.

Oxygen content

Although carp and unpretentious to the content of dissolved oxygen in the water, itsA deficiency can lead to a slowdown in the growth or total death of the entire herd.

To increase the oxygen content, special aerators or low-power compressors should be used.

Reproduction

Reproduction of the carp process is quite painstaking.For this, it is necessary, when catching 2-3 summer fish, to leave several large, unisex individuals in the fall in the fall, in order that in the spring they spawn:

• In order for the carp to multiplymake two separate ponds spawning and vigorous. The spawning should be a size of 3 × 3 meters with a depth of no more than a meter. The outgrowth pond should be slightly larger in area and depth. The optimal size is a square with a side length of 4 meters and a depth of up to, meters.
• In ponds it is necessaryprovide a fresh water supply systemfrom a river or stream, a well, as well as its drain
• In early springwhen the water is heated to 18-20 ° C in the spawning pond, it is necessary first to transplant 1-2 males in the daytime, and closer to the evening - 1 female

• In order for the females to lay eggs on the pond in advance,cobble, or to place a freshly cut meadow sod on the bottom
• Afterfertilized larvae hatch, large carps must be returned back to the pool
• After6-8daysspawning pond should be lowered, and the larvae should be caught with a fine-mesh net and transplanted into a pond
• In the growing pondlarvae should be fed with small moth, special mixed fodder, dry milk
• Before the winter, the pond must be lowered, and podroschennyh fry with a weight of 15-20 gr. transplant into a pool or a bulky home aquarium

What to do in the winter with carp in the pond

• In the winter in a concrete basin dug in the ground or a castingcarp can overwinter on conditionThe fact that the container does not freeze to the bottom and that enough oxygen will enter it
• To ensure that the container does not freeze after it has formed a sufficiently strong for foot walking ice cover it is necessarycover with a large layer of snow,in the absence of such - mats insulation and film, providing a place for drilling holes
• In order to get into the pool oxygen in its ice cover with a fishing ice rinkneed to make several holesand ensure that they do not freeze

• If the container is located indoors or in a greenhouseFor the winter, carp feeding should be reduced, feed depending on the activity of fish

Return on business for beginners

Breeding carp is not only an opportunity to always have fresh fish grown by ones own hands, but alsoa fairly profitable business.Let's try to calculate its approximate profitability

Costs

• Poolof polypropylene in volume, m3 - 2, 00 rubles.
• Malek-3000 rub. (500 pieces) for the whole capacity

• Feed- purchased mixed fodder at the rate of 1 bag per month and the duration of feeding minus autumn and winter from May to September (5 months) the cost of its purchase with the cost of one bag weighing 40 kg in 640 rub. for two years will amount to 6400 rubles.

The total amount of all expenses is35 400rub.

Profit

• Taking into account the density of population of a given size of not less than 200 year old fry at 1 m3 and the percentage of their death in the first year with normal feeding no more than 5% for the second year in the basincan grow around500carp1kg -500 kg of fish
• Carp of commercial weight in 1 kg has an average cost of about 130 rubles -realization of all the grown fish will bring65 000rub.

• After deduction of all expenses equal to 3, 00 rubles.profit is29600 rubles., and the estimated profitability of growing carp at home is:

Profitability = (Profit / Cost) × 100 = (29 600/35 400) × 100 = 8,%

Growing carp in an infield can not only be a good hobby, but also a fairly profitable business, even for a beginner fish-grower.