Here at Profitable Fish Farming we be publish a weekly update including the latest price of table size catfish as well as other catfish feed ingredients you will need for a profitable catfish farming business in Nigeria.
We have personal experience with some of these ingredients — and have used them to achieve as much as 100 percent profit in our catfish farming business. We also supply (or can connect you with suppliers for) some of the ingredients we use that we think will yield the best results. Ingredients we supply are indicated — and you can contact us if you’re interested in getting any of these ingredients from us.
CATFISH COST IN NIGERIA (price of table size catfish per kg)
- Tiny size: N500
- Smallest size: N600
- Small size: N650
- Medium size: N700 for Clarias and N750 for Hybrid
- Big size: N700 for Clarias and N900 for Hybrid
FLOATING FISH FEED
Aller Aqua
- 2mm: N8,800
- 3mm: N8,600
- 4mm: N8,200
Skretting
- 2mm: N9,370
- 3mm: N8,620
- 4mm: N6,600
Eco Float
- 3mm: N4,350
- 4mm: N4,300
- 6mm: N4,200
Blue Crown
- 2mm: N6,200
- 3mm: N5,750
- 4mm: N5,750
- 6mm: N5,500
Note: We use Blue Crown and Eco Float floating feed as a much cheaper and reliable substitute to Aller Aqua and Skretting floating feed, and we can supply both in case you are interested.
CATFISH FEED INGREDIENT COST IN NIGERIA (price per kg)
- Local Fish: N350
- Fish Meal (Senegal): N380/N480 depending on quality.
- Fish Concentrate: N1,100
- Fish Meal (72 percent): N900
- Fish Meal (65 percent): –
- Poultry Meal: N380
- Bone Meal: N80
- Local Blood Meal: N200
- Imported Blood Meal: N300
- Bern-seed: N100
- Soya Meal: N154
- Full-Fat Soya: N165
- GNC: N125
- Dough: N70
- Maize: N90
- Garri (low quality): N70
- Garri (high quality/koko garri): N75
- Biscuit waste: N80
- Molasses: N100
NOTE: We use and supply cheaper and reliable local fish meal as an alternative to the expensive 72 percent fish meal. We can also connect you to people who can supply all of the other ingredients.
CATFISH FINGERLINGS (price)
- Fingerlings: N10
- Post-fingerlings: N15
- Juvenile: N20 – N30
NOTE: If you are interested in any of the above ingredients, we might be able to link you to a supplier. Feel free to reach out directly to us.
Ali
Thank you for the information. However, I have unique needs and can use your help. We are trying to get into industrial fish farming and poultry. Specifically, following helps are needed.
1. Ability to produce necessary feeds onsite.
2. We already have 7 earth fish ponds dug without a clue on how to move forward. We also built a concrete fingerling pond on site. Can you help with startup?
3. Construction of fish smoking oven is also in advance stage – I need your help to ensue that I’m on the right path.
4. Please provide me with your phone number/s and confirm if you have WhatsApp so that we can chat.
ADEBAYO OLUWATOSIN
GOOD DAY SIR PLEASE WHAT IS THE ROUGH ESTIMATE IN FEEDING CATFISH OF 1000 THROUGH THE SIX MONTHS
AWAITING YOUR REPLY
THANK YOU SIR