Homemade feed

In addition to natural feed, we can provide fish with Homemade feed in the following ways:

• In general, Homemade feed should be prepared with high protein content to provide feed for healthy and grow faster.
• Prepared Homemade feed to feed fish in addition to natural feed, using existing ingredients such as rice bran, breaking rice, soybeans, dried fish or fish meal, or mixed pellet feed, then cook according to the following recipe:

Feed ingredients include:

Figure 43: The finished homemade feed

 (Source: Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries)

• homemade feed formulation

- Dried fish or pellet feed 20% + rice bran 60% + breaking rice 10% + soybeans 10% with this feed formulation can change the percentage of any of the ingredients, depending on the capabilities of each farmer as shown in the table.

- But it is better to keep this feed ingredient intact because all this ingredient contains a lot of protein.

- Generally, high protein content is found in fish meal and soybean ingredients.

- Therefore, to increase the content of high-protein feed, should increase the amount of dry fish or soybean.

- Farmers should increase the amount of soybean because it is cheaper than fry fish.

Table: Ingredients and amounts of feed to be mixed together

• Cooked homemade feed is a type of sticky feed, so it should be prepared in ball and placed in a hanging basket to feed fish that better to monitor the fish feeding activity and to monitor the amount of feed to the fish.

• In case the fish finished the feed, add more feed later.

• Homemade feed should be prepared and cooked one time or all day long and avoid using feed for the fish to eat later because the food will easily deteriorate if stored for a long time.

Figure 44 Feeding fish using a basket   (Source: Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries)