How to start shrimp farm? RDM Shrimp
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- Karlanea Brown is on a mission to make Indiana the shrimp capital of the US. She has a degree in fashion designing, become an interior designer, a mother and then a school cafeteria manager. These all lead her to shrimp farming. She started shrimp farming in 2010 and have grown from 6 production tanks to 19 production tanks. Their operation experimented with other species such as crawfish and oysters and hope to become a one stop
seafood shop at the barn selling only sustainable seafood. They also help get people started in shrimp farming.
Love the way you explain your proccess!
Those little crustaceans are so sensitive to their environment, aren't they? I had no idea. Thank you for this excellent presentation.
Great presentation! Learned so much
Thanks for the informative video. If I can suggest, it would be great if you can add a video of your normal day. This explains what you do on daily basis like how you perform that tests, how these test kits look like, how you feed, what system you have in your farm etc. Just a suggestion for your next video.
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It sounds easy! But water management can be challenging.
Thank you so much for sharing
Absolutely great video, thank you.
Very Informative! Thank you for sharing with us.
Very nice video.
Thank you for your information. I’d like to come visit your facility so. I’d love to start a shrimp farm up here in Nebraska. We have a few and I think they are a wonderful idea.
Hi Jody. RDM is certainly one place to approach for help. Another good source for this kind of aquatic knowledge is Kentucky State University Center for Aquaculture. They helped set up Black Iris Farms in Ann Arbor, Michigan which is a state of the art marine shrimp farming facility. I was one of the lucky few that got a tour of Black Iris Farms and all I can say is “I want one too!”. The owner is also an amazing person and one of the most honest people that I’ve ever met in my life.
When I look at how Asians run their ponds - outdoors and in buildings - with almost no facilities at all, apart from tanks and - yes, let's call them filters - then I still have my own experiences ex-aquarist.
That means: you establish your system and leave it alone.
Only if it doesn't work: you have to intervene!
Water always has to be moved - and the more technology you use - the more complicated it becomes and also: it constantly becomes more expensive because you have to purchase more or less technical consumables periodically!
Back then I had a good, efficient supplier: a centrifugal pump and a single filter material.
Today you would say: that's just a coarse filter!
This means that the high water circulation runs endlessly through the filter, which can be washed out!
The Asians do it the same way: they break up old plastic and create an area that is potentiated, i.e. offers a lot of small areas.
This is important for bacteria and algae!
and cheap!
The filter is a sponge cloth, a woven one: this is the pre-filter.
so far so good!
And you use a third canister to prevent larvae from getting into the filter: this is a kind of grid!
As a former aquarist, I had a system back then that no one else had - a bottom flooder.
Coarse gravel and plants in the water - that was over 4000 liters - ensured that the aquarium was planted - and everything - gravel and plants - stood on a plate hollow chamber system that was flowed through - from top to bottom!
In the tank I had tropical fish, snails and ground fish with sucking mouths: these kept the aquarium free of algae - thus reducing the algae growth due to too much light!
Later I put floating plants up there - where fish could spawn, hide and find resting places!
Others had conventional, minimal technology with an air pump for ventilation and nothing else!
It was constantly tipping over - because they had no bottom fish, no snails that ate leftover food!
The most important thing about a culture, hydroculture, is that you don't aerate water or, as in Asia, move it with paddles: that's like mixing the dirt in a kitchen mixer - but rather letting it flow!
The second important thing is to use mussels and snails: mussels filter water and snails eat leftover food.
And the third thing is that you don't introduce feeding times: it's better to overfeed them than to underfeed them!
Asian apple snails that grow very large eat all the time - so they need something to eat.
You need my filter if you have plants in the water - and creatures, snails and mussels, that filter water.
you just have to pump the water and move it!
There is someone - also an American - who says: clear water is like the plague - because it contains no bacteria.
Admittedly, the bacteria come along sooner or later through the digestion of the fish or animals!
My experience is: never filter, always move water, aerate - but not with air pumps!
Water that is moved - oxygen tears into the water as it flows - so you have to spray the water through pipes and let it fall!
You don't need any technology: you can use a hydraulic ram to generate water pressure and operate the hydraulic ram as a pump without any technology, i.e. without electricity!
Many fish - including shrimp - don't need that much light. You can generate this moderately yourself: running water that you need and generate yourself through the hydraulic ram - it has to fall again, fall down: you can interpose impellers - these are waterproof motors - and let it generate electric current endlessly.
As long as water flows, there is electricity!
You don't need any technology and as food, shrimps eat practically anything green, including fruit and vegetables! you don't need to buy anything!
For cultivation: if you get the larvae, that's expensive! A single female can lay over a million eggs!. Raising the shrimp yourself from the egg to the larva to the shrimp can significantly improve your cultivation.
This means that the conditions you create have an influence on whether your returns are good or bad. Most of the time the result is moderate - because the conditions are inadequate in parts or as a whole!
The best way would be: to find the best way - for yourself!
the round pools - sorry - they suck!
Try an oval pool - like a race track - you have everything on one level - and it can flow. You can dress your shrimp quickly and easily!
If you need a pattern: take a look here - you can't buy it, you have to build it yourself or have it built!
look there:
grabcad.com/library/farm-for-pangasius-and-ducks-1
It doesn't matter what you have in the water: with the system you can do it
in the water: you can block the oval - then everything goes in the middle: your shrimp can be fished out of the water in just one place, so to speak.
The thing has almost 2 million liters of circulating water!
About the hydraulic ram: it works with water pressure - that means you only need one place, which has to be deeper, in which the hydraulic ram can be operated.
Start it once and it will continue running forever!
contact me via grabcad - then I will receive an email if you want!
Kind regards from Berlin, Germany
Isn't NEAH the same as biofloc?
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