Shrimp: breeding and growing as a business

Many beginning entrepreneurs are asking themselves what to do, so that the invested money will not only not be lost, but also bring a good profit. Food production has always stood in the first place, because the need for fresh and healthy food is basic for every person. A separate line today is the breeding and sale of marine life. Demand for seafood is growing every day, and the most demanded are marine crustaceans. It's quite simple to explain: shrimps and crabs are tasty and useful, and also have an affordable price, compared to other marine inhabitants.

Crustaceans in business

However, today we want to talk about shrimp not from the point of view of the consumer, but to consider them as an option for running a profitable business. You will be surprised at how easy it is to cultivate shrimp. The breeding of these crustaceans will not require a large seed capital. In just a few months, you can turn into a successful entrepreneur.

The first question: the registration of an enterprise

Indeed, many are afraid to enter the food production market because they are afraid of difficulties with the processing of necessary documents and permits. The life of shrimp itself causes no less questions. Breeding must comply with certain rules and regulations. However, this business can not be called a new trend. For the first time people engaged in such craft in the 70s. It was then across Europe that shrimp farms began to appear. Russia did not stand aside, moreover, the most popular demand was a freshwater, giant shrimp.

For home and for the soul

Each of you can try himself as a shrimp breeder. Breeding crustaceans at home does not require the registration of a private enterprise in the tax inspection and may well bring a good profit. And if you understand that this is really the business of your life, you can safely increase the scale of production and open an industrial farm.

Types of shrimp

The next question is: who will be your final consumer. The fact is that there are different prawns, the breeding and realization of which is radically different.

• Decorative dwarf crustaceans, or shrimp-filterers. They are used primarily to decorate aquariums. They are unsuitable for food and are sold through a network of pet stores. In fact, the shrimp content is simple, so if you have a large aquarium and a certain skill, you can regularly get offspring and sell it to amateur aquarists.
• However, if you want to do a truly profitable business, it's much better to pay attention to royal and tiger shrimps, which are used directly in food. They have a huge demand among restaurateurs and owners of large food stores. It is on this option that we want to stop today. Of course, the shrimp content that is grown for food is somewhat different. First of all, you will have to ensure constant volumes of supplies, so that it would be interesting for the customer to work with you.

Buy tribal shrimp

Having determined what kind of crustaceans you want to breed, you need to carefully study the features of their life support. The technology of growing can be found in the specialized literature, but it will be better if the person who already has practical experience of such breeding will tell about the main difficulties. It is on the recommendations you need to look for a trading point where you can buy shrimp for breeding. It is advisable that it is not far from you, as this will save on transportation. In a simple package, you do not, you need special mobile tanks that will support the viability of shrimp. Beginners are best to enlist the help of experts who will check the condition of the crustaceans.

You can follow the path of least resistance. This is especially important if you have shrimp for the first time. Reproduction of these crustaceans is fraught with great difficulties, since it is not easy for them to create optimal conditions for them. This in Europe can be arranged "pens" directly in the habitual water bodies, that is, the natural habitat. Therefore, it is possible in a special farm to buy fry and grow from them adult crustaceans. After the life cycle is over, it will be possible to purchase a new young plant.

You can successfully breed those species that are resistant to diseases. For example, the tiger is sick during the breeding season very often, and the survival rate of the young is relatively small. But the Rosenbergs are more stable.

Where to grow shrimp

Do not flatter yourself and think that you will not need serious preparation. First of all, you need to prepare a place where shrimp will live. Reproduction and subsequent cultivation will be successful only if the conditions suitable for these creations are created. That is, right after you have decided on a supplier of live crustaceans, you need to equip a place for their accommodation. As the climatic conditions in Russia do not presuppose the possibility of breeding marine life in natural water bodies, there are several possibilities for a beginning entrepreneur.

An aquarium or a swimming pool?

The choice is most often made from the calculation of the usable area. The larger it is, the larger the enterprise will be. You can consider two options:

• The pool is 1-1.5 meters deep. It is not necessary to make a stationary, heated pool, enough, a pool for breeding giant freshwater shrimp at home can be placed directly at home. Of course, the amount of exported products will depend on the size of the basin. Cultivation of shrimp at home can be cost-effective if you live at least 100 live animals at a time. At the same time, room temperature for crustaceans is even more preferable than street temperature. Most importantly, the temperature does not fall below +13 degrees, and Ph was above 9. The bottom of the pool is recommended to be tiled or broken stones, so that your crustaceans could hide under them. Experts recommend installing a closed water system in their pools. In this case, you will automatically adjust the optimal temperature, oxygen and lighting conditions.
• Cultivation of shrimp at home can be successfully carried out in the aquarium, but in this case, the volume of products will be severely limited. Many individuals will not be able to grow even with a sufficiently large capacity. That is, in this case, you will focus on individuals who feed seafood predatory inhabitants of their aquariums.

Nutrition of Arthropods

Food for shrimp will have to be purchased in specialized stores, so suppliers should look for it in advance. It is extremely important to provide them with a healthy diet. For the normal livelihood of large shrimp, a lot of food with an increased protein content is needed. We must not forget that these creatures can eat each other, if not provide them with the necessary amount of food.

Shrimp food is better to buy only from proven manufacturers. The fact is that this creation is very selective. It waits for the food to swell well in the water, and then selects the tidbits from it. Therefore, manufacturers of elite mixtures make it so dense and with such components that the shrimp is eaten as much as possible by all. Trying to make feed mixes alone is not worth it, it can negatively affect the growth and development of young animals.

Equipment and optimum conditions

Cultivation of shrimp is a process that requires compliance with all the subtleties, and therefore, it is best to start with one or two individuals to make sure that the conditions you create are really ideal. Experts say that you need to comply with a number of rules, otherwise your business will start to bear losses.

• To crustaceans grow well, it is necessary to maintain the optimum water temperature - + 22-28 gr., Because the shrimp is extremely thermophilic.
• In one pool you can not keep too many individuals. Overpopulation will lead to the fact that they will start eating each other, which will negatively affect business.
• If you have a very busy schedule, think about who will take care of your pets during the day. It is extremely important to constantly feed them (especially larvae) so that they do not feel hungry. Food for them is bought special, balanced. It is in your best interest that the crustaceans grow well and gain mass.
• The moulting period is the most important period in the life of shrimp. A poorly regulated temperature regime at this time will cause the mass death of your pets. Therefore, it is impossible to save on the system to maintain the temperature regime of water.

By observing these simple rules one can achieve stable growth and development, as well as active reproduction of crustaceans. For 12 months, each individual can reach a weight of 100 g.

We purchase equipment

First of all you will need to find capacious aquariums or swimming pools. If you want to go out in a year to a stable supply of shrimp in shops or restaurants, it is desirable to immediately purchase them at least 12 pieces and populate at intervals of a month. Then in a year you can devastate them one by one and colonize the young. The equipment for shrimp breeding includes a system for maintaining the optimum water temperature.

In addition, each aquarium or pool will require a separate oxygen circulation system. It is very expensive, but if you want the animals to grow healthy, gain weight and multiply, then you should not save.

Habitats for crustaceans should be covered with a special primer. Its quantity needs to be calculated proceeding from the following proportion: on a 50-liter aquarium - 9 kg of large soil. The farm for shrimp breeding will not do without the arthropods themselves. For one male it is desirable to have four females each.

Preliminary calculations

Of course, if you start with a small pool to meet your family's need for marine delicacies, the costs will be quite different. However, industrial shrimp farming is a business that requires significant investment. In order to quickly take a place in the market, you need to ensure a solid capacity for production. In this case, about 700 thousand rubles you will go to buy special equipment. A ton of arthropods or their larvae is another 35 thousand rubles. The fattening will take about 120 thousand. In addition, you need a room for which you need to pay rent and utility bills, as well as employees who will care for shrimp. That is, it will take approximately 1 350 000 rubles to start the business right away with good turnovers.

Why you should pay attention to this business

Cultivation of shrimps has a number of advantages. Demand for crustaceans never falls, on the contrary, prices only grow. But how else, because it is delicious and healthy, and also a dietary food product. Shrimp is quickly prepared and combined with any garnish, suitable for baby food.

Growing arthropods at home is an opportunity to enter a business with small investments and in about a year to fully pay for them, after which you will begin to make a profit. By the way, shrimp breeding as a business is a unique idea of its kind, because you will not have competitors. This is an extremely demanded product, and if you are ready to provide competitive prices, then you will become an entrepreneur who sells quality and cheap domestic products.

Sales market

Shrimp is in great demand, so finding a consumer is not the most difficult task. However, from the very first days of the contract for supply with large shopping centers, restaurants and specialized fish markets, most likely, will not work. However, it does not matter, there are a lot of small shops that will happily buy goods from you. Creating a name for yourself, you will be able to fully return the invested money for about a year and, for example, open your own brand store for the sale of seafood.