Here's How to Make Goldfish Feed for Cultivation

In goldfish farming, feeding is a routine activity carried out in cultivation. As you know, feed is a component that causes high production costs. Therefore, you need to know how to make goldfish feed that is good and right. 

You don't need to worry or think that making your own feed will be difficult. The reason is, making your own feed is not difficult and you can choose ingredients that are easy to find. So, you can adjust the composition and nutritional content to accelerate fish growth.

If you want to make easy and cheap goldfish feed to save on production costs, let's see the explanation below!

How to Make Your Own Goldfish Feed

If you want to make your own carp feed, you need to pay attention to the ingredients used to make the feed. There are many ingredients that can be used to make carp feed.

These materials can be found easily and the price tends to be cheap. Ingredients for goldfish feed can be divided into two categories, namely vegetable ingredients and animal ingredients.

Vegetable ingredients are ingredients obtained from plants such as bran or rice bran. Meanwhile, animal ingredients are ingredients derived from animals such as fish meal and eggs. As for other alternative feed ingredients, namely by using culture techniques and cultivating plankton.

Before moving on to how to make fish feed, you must know the daily needs of fish feed. To find out how much fish feed is needed per day, you need to know the weight of the fish.

Because the amount of feed that is stocked every day is around 3% of the total weight of the fish. The total feed is divided to be stocked 2-3 times a day, namely in the morning (at 08.00), afternoon (12.00), and afternoon (16.00).

In the manufacture of carp feed, there are several ways of making feed, namely making emulsions, making fish pellets, and natural feed cultures. The difference between these methods is based on the age of the goldfish.

Here's how to make goldfish feed that is easy and cheap:

1. Making Emulsion Feed

Emulsion feed is a type of feed that you can make yourself without the help of machines and has a low shelf life. This type of feed is usually given to goldfish aged 5-21 days.

The ingredients used to make the emulsion are fish meal and chicken egg yolk in a 1:1 ratio. If necessary, you can add 1% of fish vitamins.

The way to make an emulsion is by dissolving the boiled chicken egg yolk in 200 ml of boiled water. Then, add 40 grams of soy flour and 5 grams of sago flour. Next, add 1 gram of fish vitamins. After that, heat the ingredients that have been mixed, then stir until an emulsion or lump forms.

The method of giving this type of feed is by spreading it on the surface of the water. Giving emulsion to carp can be done 6-8 times per day.

2. Making Pellets

In the manufacture of fish pellets, the materials used are divided into 2 parts according to the protein content. These ingredients are supplementary ingredients and basal ingredients.

Supplement ingredients are ingredients that have a protein content of more than 20%. Meanwhile, basal material is a material that has a protein content of less than 20%.

The composition of fish pellets used to make fish feed has requirements, such as high nutrition, easy to process, affordable price, easy to obtain, and does not contain toxins. Given the increasing price of pellets, you can try making fish pellets yourself to save on production costs.

Ingredients for making carp pellets:

• Soy flour 200 grams
• Fish flour 120 grams
• Blood meal 100 grams
• Broth 80 grams
• Vitamin 50 grams
• Turi leaf flour 350 grams
• Fine bran 350 grams
• Flour 100 grams
• Mineral salts 10 grams
• Tapioca flour to taste

How to make goldfish pellets:

• Prepare raw materials for making fish feed. Raw materials that are still rough need to be refined first using a grinding machine, then the results of the grinding are sifted to obtain a fine textured flour.
• Enter adhesive ingredients, such as tapioca flour, using around 10-20% of the total feed mixture used.
• Add enough water to bind the dough. 
• Put all the ingredients together, then stir until evenly distributed. Mr / Ms can also use mixers to mix all the ingredients to make it more even.
• Print the dough using a pellet press to make it faster and easier.
• Dry the feed that has been printed in the sun to dry.
• After drying, pack the feed in a waterproof plastic bag and place it in a room with good air circulation.

3. Natural Feed Culture

Natural feed is feed that comes from nature and is used as a source of food for cultivated organisms, especially those that are still in the form of larvae and their availability can be cultivated or cultivated.

Natural culture is an alternative to providing feed for carp. The types of natural food that you can cultivate are rotifers, daphnia, and moina. Apart from that, you can also cultivate tubifex worms for goldfish natural food.

From the explanation above, if you want cheap and quality feed, then you need knowledge about how to make feed and effort in making it.