edibles…

[Magnum Man]

so, I have raised Tilapia before , to eat..

so now I’m thinking along the lines of maybe trying a shellfish, in a farming type situation… I still have the 3 big tanks I raised tilapia in, outside… I think generally we have too short a growing season to raise a tropical outside… I love shrimp, so shrimp farming would be interesting… but sticking with my Minnesota climate, thought about crawdads ( around here, they are called cray fish )

wondering about raising a shrimp or crayfish to an edible size, enough of them to make a few meals, so it would be worth while…

my neocardia shrimp have been breeding very well, with my local well water… 100’s in a 10 gallon tank.. . obviously not much of a meal featuring neocardia but wondering about a larger freshwater shrimp, prawn, or crawfish, or clam maybe… breeding and growing out…

got any ideas???

 

[Magnum Man]

I’m not a face bookie, but an internet search turned up this..

Northern Crayfish Company | Afton MN

Northern Crayfish Company, Afton. 1,074 likes. Retailer and wholesaler of wild trapped Minnesota Crayfish

www.facebook.com

 

[Magnum Man]

that would just require some education on raising and breeding them…

 

[TwoTankAmin]

It will cost you more to try to raise them in aquariums to eat than it would to buy them at the supermarket.

For one if you have any disease issues you cannot use the same sort of treatments for food fish etc. as opposed to what we can use for ornamental fish.

But, you might want to have a read here https://liveaquaponics.com/blogs/news/how-to-grow-h-u-g-e-freshwater-prawns
Then maybe read here https://worldwideaquaculture.com/build-a-profitable-shrimp-farming-business-from-home/