How to Start a Catfish Farm?
1. Overview the Market in Nigeria and Confirm the Fish Species
As we can see from the first section that Nigeria people's demand for catfish is beyond doubt. In the month of December 2013, the federal government of Nigeria implemented and enforced a law banning the importation of frozen fish. This move was made to encourage the local production of fish. Now the truth is that the demand for fish cannot be met by local producers alone, so there is presently a market gap waiting to be filled by smart entrepreneurs who can be bold enough to venture into fish farming.

2. Confirm the Catfish Farm Scale
The volume of capital needed depends on the scale of your proposed farm. The bigger the scale, the bigger the capital needed. Here suggest to you start small and expand as you get better understanding of catfish farming. It would not be a bad idea to start from your backyard container in order to obtain basis of catfish farming through practice. The knowledge obtained can now be transferred to real catfish farming. So, keep your money and learn how to profit through it.

3. Breeding Fingerlings
Stock your pond with fingerlings, baby catfish about 4 to 6 inches long. It's common for catfish farms to stock ponds to a level of 1,500 fish per acre, but fewer fish will need less dissolved oxygen. With a smaller than maximum population, you save yourself the cost of aerating the ponds. After a time, gather some breeding-age catfish and place them in a separate pond to spawn. Select two males for every three females, and keep the population density of the breeding pool between 800 and 1,200 pounds of fish per acre.

4. Catfish Food
Catfish can eat almost anything, because they are omnivorous in nature. For greater yield fish farmers should buy ready made feed. The feed comes in pellet form of various sizes ranging from 0.9-15 mm. You feed them once or twice daily. Over feeding can affect the pH level of the water and could kill them, any evenness food in the water should be removed.

5. Catfish Feed Formula
The raw material: fish meal, shrimp meal, soybean, yeast powder, strong flour, fish oil, lecithin, special multi-dimensional, trace elements etc.
Notice:
(1)According the fish size to determine the feed type, in order to meet the nutritional needs of catfish in different growth stages.
(2)"timing, fixed-point, quantitative, qualitative” should be achieved, and adjust feeding amount according to the weather, water temperature, water quality and feeding condition, avoiding excessive wastage of the feed.
(3)If owner want to add medicine or additives, firstly dissolved them in appropriate amount water, and then spray on the pellet, then use them after drying.