Hello friends of the channel, you must be wondering, does this really make money? For sure! Today I came to show you how much profit we can make with a 1000 L box.
If we put 100 fry, each weighing 5 g and leave them for 21 weeks, that will be about 5 months and if we do everything right, we will remove them with approximately 620 g, which is a size that is well accepted in commerce. Because the longer the fish stays in the box, the lower our profit will be, as expenses will increase. So, 100 tilapia, during a 5-month cycle, will consume a total of 82,200 kg of feed, which will be a little more than three bags.
Here in my city, a 25 kg bag of food costs R$ 100. 00, from the Pratigi brand, which is R$ 4. 00 per kg of food.
So if I multiply 82,200 kg times R$4. 00, my total expense during this entire 5-month cycle will be R$328. 00.
But don't worry, because at the end of the video I'm going to reveal a technique that can help you reduce your food expenses even further, follow along. Keep writing it down. Write it down, write it down.
The next expense we have to consider is electricity. So I've already done the calculations here for you. Per month: if we use this pump here, the Sun Sun, which serves a 1000 L tank very well.
It has a power of 30 W and a flow rate of 4,500 L per hour, it will generate a monthly expense of R$ 19. 44. Multiplying by 5 months, in total during the entire cycle: my electricity expense will be R$97.
20. These pumps are very economical, silent and resistant. In my opinion, the best value for money I have ever found working in water tanks.
I'll leave the link below, if you 're interested. Let's move on to our next expense: purchasing fry. Here in my region it costs around R$250.
00 per thousand. So let's consider 100 fry, each weighing 5 grams, a total expense of R$ 25. 00, adding everything together look how much our expense will be: R$ 451.
00. Write in the comments: what is the value of fry and feed in your region? Now let's calculate our income.
A tilapia here in my region costs around R$ 15. 00. So 100 tilapia weighing 620 g each, will give around 62 kg of tilapia, multiplying all this by R$15.
00 I will have a gross profit of R$930. 00. And if I take this R$930.
00 and subtract my expenses, which were R$451. 00, I will be left with R$479. 00.
But wait a minute! Remember that I told you that if you stayed until the end I would show you a way to increase this margin even further. Just look: what’s already good will get even better.
We can replace part of the feed with these powerful little plants called lemnas or duckweed. They can reach up to 45% protein. In addition to containing lipids and carbohydrates.
We can use these plants to replace up to 15% of feed. I'm doing some tests here trying to increase the amount of lemnas even more to save even more on feed and we're going to publish all our results here on YouTube. So you better sign up soon so you don't miss anything, okay?
These little plants arrived to revolutionize fish farming, they can double the quantity every 48 hours, just place them in a reservoir. You don't even need an oxygenator, but you can't leave big fish with them, otherwise they will devour everything. Just look!
Here I put these little aquarium fish called swords, which will generate me extra income. I placed this circle of hose here to allow light to enter the fish. So, going back to our calculations: if we remove 15% of the feed and provide lemnas, instead of spending 82,200 kg, we will now spend R$69,870 kg and if we multiply that by R$4.
00, it will be R$279. 48. You remember that before, without using the lemnas, we would have spent R$ 328.
80. With the lemnas I am saving R$ 49. 32, now just take this remaining amount and add up our profit.
So look at R$ 479. 00 plus the R$ 49. 32 that I managed to save using the lemnas, my total profit will be R$ 528.
32. Remembering that you can still breed ornamental fish here in this motto space, and thus increase the profit of your system. As these fish are small, you can put hundreds of these fish here in this 500 liter box and while I am cultivating the lemnas here and removing a little of them daily to feed my tilapia, the ornamental fish are there, multiplying and growing.
They can be 8 to 12 cm in size and just to give you an idea, a swordfish like this can cost up to R$7. 00 to the end consumer and is in great demand among people who have an aquarium and fish ponds at home. , and you can sell to aquarium stores or even sell directly to the end consumer.
Now see some important points for this profit that I informed here: I am considering the water temperature between 27 degrees and 32 degrees, as tilapia is a tropical species and develops better in this temperature range because as the temperature drops , the fish will reduce their feed consumption . Second: if you want a system with two boxes, you don't need to have two pumps, one in each box, you can have two 1000 L boxes interconnected using a single pump with a slightly higher flow rate, for example a 6,000 L/h pump will do the job. The two 1000 L boxes are very good, this helps to reduce the costs of implementing the system and electricity.
Third: if you really want to start, it's important to start with the smallest system, for example, a system with a 500 L box, like the system I taught here in this video, and as you learn and understand how to deal with the fish, such as analyzing water quality for example, you can invest in a larger system to increase your profits. And if you are new to our channel, I invite you to subscribe by pressing the button below so you can gain knowledge, confidence and maybe even turn it into a business, earn money and supplement your income. And for those of you who have watched the video so far, I will leave two gifts: the first is this video here, which you will click on, where you will learn how to calculate the consumption of electrical equipment both for fish farming and also for equipment from there.
your home if you are curious. And here there is also a playlist, which is a sequence of videos, which I am sure that after watching you will feel confident and prepared to set up your system, just click here and continue watching, Until next time.
