4 Easy Ways to Cultivate Giant Shrimp with Big Profits
Street food with seafood as its main highlight seems to lead the food market around the world, including in Indonesia. In addition to having a delicious taste, the sea animal turns out to store many nutrients that are very good for the human body. That's why the demand for it never subsides from time to time, and even continues to increase. It is not surprising then that the cultivation of giant prawns is lined up to become one of the many livestock businesses that are worthy of being tested.
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| 4 Easy Ways to Cultivate Giant Shrimp with Big Profits |
Ingredients and Processed Products of Giant Shrimp
Currently, cultivated shrimp or caught directly from the sea are not only sold in the fish market. Some of them have even started to be marketed through supermarkets and minimarkets. In line with the development of the era and technological sophistication, shrimp packaging is not only wrapped in ordinary clear plastic. There are many variations of shrimp packaging ranging from styrofoam to canned.
Likewise in the processing chapter. Some are sold in the form of fresh shrimp, some are processed first into instant products. Call it shrimp sausage, instant shrimp paste, shrimp paste, and various kinds of frozen food snacks that use shrimp as the main ingredient.
As mentioned earlier, giant prawns contain many nutrients that are good for health. One of them is calories, fat, sodium, carbohydrates, potassium, protein, vitamins A, B6, B12, calcium, iron, and magnesium.
Giant Shrimp Cultivation Guide
Considering the high enthusiasm of seafood fans and the strong endurance of giant prawns, many people are interested in trying the giant prawn farming business. Not only for personal consumption, but also for marketing it to reap a number of benefits.
As we know, the price of giant prawns in the market may be fairly standard, but sometimes it goes up quite a lot. Therefore, farmers need to take proper care in order to obtain a successful harvest. The guidelines for cultivating giant prawns are as follows:
1. Preparation of Giant Shrimp Cultivation
There are several things that need to be prepared before the breeder goes directly into the shrimp farming business, namely:
Choose a location for cultivation that is safe from predators and far from residential and industrial areas. Also prepare the tools and materials needed in the process of making cultivation media. Because giant prawns are included in one type of freshwater shrimp, farmers can use ponds as a breeding medium.
Make sure the cultivation location is large enough to be able to accommodate more giant prawns.
Clean the cultivation media and the surrounding environment from the presence of garbage or household waste.
If you have managed to find a suitable location, immediately prepare a means of transporting the fry, buckets, slides, scoops, hoes, and cloth sieves.
Breeders also need to prepare a number of materials for cultivation media, including agricultural lime, nets, and fertilizers.
2. Giant Shrimp Cultivation Media
Cultivation media must be made by taking into account the rules and the right composition so that giant prawns can grow optimally in it. Here is how to make cultivation media for giant prawns:
Cultivation media must be built at a height of 70 to 100 meters with a minimum area of 300-1000 m2, or it can be adjusted to the desired shrimp culture capacity.
Make a trench around the pond with a depth of 50 cm and a width of 30 cm to prevent the risk of flooding and puddles around the cultivation pond.
Breeders can add compost or manure into the pond to be used as natural food for giant prawns later. Leave it for about 1 week or until the color of the water in the pool changes. Only after that breeders can continue the next cultivation process.
Measure the pH of the soil and pond water. A good pH for giant prawns is not too acidic or alkaline, more precisely around 6 to 7.
Add water to the cultivation pond gradually until it leaves an empty space as high as 20 cm, starting from the top surface of the pond.
The recommended pond water discharge for shrimp farming is 0.5 to 1 liter per second.
3. Giant Shrimp Fries
The most important thing that should not be missed when you do the giant prawn cultivation is to prepare superior quality fry. Preparation of superior quality fry is important to support the final results of shrimp culture. It is undeniable, terms like 'the fruit doesn't fall far from the tree' are true. The better the quality of the seeds, the better the quality of the results of cultivation later.
It is known that there are 2 methods that can be used to obtain good quality fry and are suitable for breeding. One of them is spawning. Breeders only need to prepare good quality prawn broodstock and cement ponds as spawning media. Although it requires more time and patience in each process, this method has proven to be effective in producing lots of superior quality shrimp fry.
The characteristics of female giant prawns that can be used as broodstock are that they have a rather small body but tend to widen in the abdomen. Meanwhile, male shrimp brooders have a larger and slender body than female brooders. In addition, the head of the male giant prawn is bigger than the female. Make sure to only choose brooders that are able to move actively and don't get sick.
The spawning process can be carried out until the giant prawn larvae appear. At this stage, immediately separate the parent shrimp and larvae. Then do a series of rearing the larvae until they turn into fry ready to stock.
Or, farmers can buy prawn fry directly, which are free from disease and pests, do not have physical disabilities, and are active.
4. Raising Giant Prawns
Spread the fry into the cultivation pond gradually and carefully.
In order to make it easier for the giant prawns to adapt to their new environment without feeling stressed about it, farmers can add the pond water little by little and let it sit for about 15 minutes before finally starting to spread the fry.
Breeders also need to pay attention to water circulation on a regular basis, considering that pond water plays an important role in the cultivation of giant prawns with abundant harvests. It should be noted, pond water that does not flow can cause water quality to decrease by up to 50%. To anticipate this, replace the pool water at least once a month so that the quality and temperature of the water is maintained.
Try to always keep the pH of the water in the range of 6 to 8.
Feed options for giant prawns are pellets and crushed trash fish. The frequency of feeding is 2 to 3 times in 1 day.
Immediately deal with diseases and pests with special drugs. Be sure to separate giant prawns diagnosed with pests or diseases from other healthy prawns. In this way, the risk of disease transmission can be minimized.
Not only is the market share very wide, the giant prawn cultivation procedure is also very easy to do and does not require too much capital. The most profitable business!