Our Tilapia Farm

The farm@Semenyih consists of 8 ponds for Red Tilapia. Our farm uses water from the mountain.

High Grade Tilapia fries with constant flow of mountain water.

Our worker preparing food for the fish fries. The fishes are fed ONLY with high grade pellets.

Close up pictures of our healthy red tilapia

Feeding time...

The red talapia

We have come a long way. It's been such a long time since I last updated.

Since last year we have diverse our business to farming red talapia. When it was due to harvest last december, the price of red talapia has since dropped from RM10 per kg to RM7per kg (bear in mind this is ex-farm price). By early this year, the price went further down to RM6.20 perkg. And it stayed the same even when during chinese new year. It is really frustrating as there was no way we could be making any profit with that kind of price. The problem is that we have use our best techniques, feeding the best feed and yet we have to be selling our fishes to the middle man with them mixing our fish up with those eating thrash, chicken intestines and what not. It's very very frustrating. It's been a tough few months and nevertheless we had to let go off our first batch of red talapia at RM6.80 perkg.

Because of the unstable price of red talapia, we have decided to approach consumer and restaurants on our own. The project will commence early next month, which is June.

So here's some information about our red talapia:-

1) They are all fed by 100% fish pellets (No chicken intestines, therefore no unhealthy fats and definitely no thrash)

2) Constant changing of mountain water into the pond. (No mud smell for sure)

3) Chemical Free (We do not practice using any sorts of chemical on our fishes)

Do call me if you would like to purchase these fresh from farm red talapia.

Market problem. Not the fish

Been busy learning a lot and doing much of research to achieve the optimum techniques to farm these fishes up to it's best quality meat texture and flavor without the use of chemical. And we realize cheap fishes could be as good as the expensive ones we eat in the restaurants. I personally do not like freshwater fish too much and was disappointed many times eating them in restaurants. However, the perception has changed since we gave the best of food to my fishes and kept them clean. These fishes are actually much fresher and tastier than eating them in restaurants. Even cheap and always-under-valued fish like the big head carp is awesome. wecannot believe how smooth the texture of the big head carp is until we started farming them on my own. Definitely, not self praising our fishes and they are just awfully under-valued.

It breaks my heart knowing that in Malaysia we do not have standards on our fishes and probably also because some people wouldn't pay to eat fishes when they are the healthiest meat on earth. Fishes could be affordable and healthy to eat. It doesn't have to be expensive if there weren't greed among the middleman, restaurants and farmers.

Why are farmers dying? Many farmers closed down recently. Why? They couldn't sustain! Land is expensive and feeds are very very very expensive. I am not sure about live stocks but fish price are being controlled. Not by government. Not controlled as in it will stay the same or being valued by some NGOs when it should go up. It is being controlled by middleman. When there is too much fish in the market, price can go all the way down and when there's lack of supplies, it would go way up as well. And for us, farmers, when it goes way way way down, it goes down and stay there for a longest time ever. Food price generally will never go down when it goes to consumer. Whether consumer purchase fish in the morning market, super market or eat in restaurants, rarely would you see food price go down. But for us, farmers, it does and until the extend many of us couldn't survive.

These fish pellets/fish feeds price are constantly going up. In one year time, the price of a 20kg pellets can go up by RM3. It is a pretty high percentage in one year. It's heart wrenching if we were to call it quit. It took us a long way and time to reach here. If we, the young generation do not start farming, what will our next generation eat in the future?

I hope, we can go on, fight on to make farming a better career for mankind. We shall start figuring something new to break the in between people who are earning too much.

About the Ikan Keli we stopped breeding

Why we stopped breeding ikan keli or catfish?

Man... I really hate to complain about it but here's the truth.

The price of Keli has gone down. Down down down. There are people who offered me RM2.80 perkg. I am beyond shocked. How on earth that farmer make a living by selling them so cheap? I do not understand. If the market price of these fishes has been thrashed in such, why would we want to encourage people to farm these fishes then? It isn't right. I wouldn't farm them as well. Because of the devastating drop of keli price, some people have no other choice than to feed their kelis with cheaper alternative feed. I won't say what but definitely cheaper than fish pellets. It is impossible one can earn from feeding pellets to keli if the price is not above a certain amount. Definitely not RM3 or 4. That's why I have stopped breeding that fish that could bring no human kind anywhere.

Truth about Keli

Keli is actually a superb fish. I love keli. I love their character and I love the way they eat. Keli eats a lot basically. I still kept some 30 something of the keli I bred myself. I love them to the bits.

We do not change the keli tank water frequent like other fishes. Once a week maybe as most farmers say, keli never have to change water. It's true. These fishes are amazing. They can tolerate anything. Even eating whatever. I do not want to mention what can or would a keli eat but basically trust me, they eat ANYTHING. Anyway, our beloved 30 something keli eat fish pellet. Sometimes we feed them with some live fishes if there's extra from the pond. They lived well, grew really fat and they are adorable. So, one fine day, we decided to try my very own keli just so to know why is it under-valued. We took a 1.2kg keli up. Took it to the restaurant and ordered it to be cooked Kung pou style. They'd fillet the keli, slice it and deep fried the meat and then stir fried with dried chilli and cashew nuts.

To my very very surprise, it is beyond my expectation. The Keli is so smooth yet solid. It is no lumpy meat fish. It is seriously delicious. I wish I had taken a picture of it but I was too busy eating the fish. It's really good shit. I'd pay RM30 to eat my keli for sure.

I don't know if it's the much of love I've poured into my fishes or is it just the method that makes our own Keli taste fantastic but it does.

It is heart wrenching while eating this very nice fish while thinking this is the fish which is not being appreciated at all...

We are still alive!

Just so you know, Redfin is still alive!
We are still in operation! The lack of update in 1 year 3 months was due to lack of internet access.
And that's because we have move to a proper farm in Hulu Semenyih.
Instead of farming marble goby with canvas tank in shop lots, we have been given an opportunity to continue or expand our farming in proper fish ponds.

For the past 1 year and 3 months, we have learn a lot on larger scale farming.
Do not have time to share it all by writing it all here. However, we still welcome farmers with their questions.

There has been many enquiries on Keli fries. Unfortunately, we have stopped breeding keli or catfish for a while now. This is because we are focusing on breeding the Marble Goby.

Anyway, this post serve to let you all know, Redfin is still alive.
Till the next time.

Benih Ikan Keli

Finally we've settled moving into our new shop.
We have learn and face many obstacles while setting up and moving to our shop.

Pictures will be uploaded soon.
In the past one month besides getting busy with setting and moving, we have also successfully bred our own Ikan Keli. And therefore, we will be selling ikan keli fries as well be it to people who are interested to set up their ikan keli farm or to feed their ketutu.

Feeding Ketutu with Ikan Keli.
Ikan Keli is one of the highest protein fishes alive. Feeding them with Ikan Keli will increase their growing pace. Furthermore, the Ikan ketutu seems like loves eating Keli a lot. Some may think it is expensive feeding ikan keli but if you calculate the growing pace, you will know it is much more cost effective as compare to feeding them with talapia or carps.

Ikan Keli farming.
When we started breeding Ikan Keli, we have learn quite a bit about their characteristic. Ikan Keli appear to be a very hardy and tough fish as compare to ketutu. They are less sensitive with water and we've seen very very very murky water with Ikan Keli living in it healthily. They can also tolerate higher ammonia level as compare to Ketutu. At 4ppm, the ikan keli are still swimming happily. They can live without oxygen and you do not need the best of water. If one has got land, Ikan Keli is well worth investing on.

At the moment, we have benih ikan keli from 1 inches to 2 inches.
We will be selling them in a reasonable price of:-
1 inch - RM0.04 each
2 inches - RM0.06 each

Our Keli fries are all well fed with high quality pellets. We do not stinge on their food and you can see, they are all fat and bulging side ways. Nevertheless, they are disease-free because they lived indoor and they don't mix with other fishes as well. If you are interested in getting healthy and good quality benih ikan keli, give me a call.

busy busy busy

We have been busy. Why? Because we are in a midst of setting up our new place with complete Recirculation system.
Setting up the place is a hassle itself. Moving those fishes would be the worse headache. Because we do not want to stress them inside the plastic bag, we have decided to move the Ketutu in tanks.

Soon enough, I will put up photos of our new place and the system we're using.
Thankfully, we didn't have to spend a lot considering the quality products we're using for our business. Throughout our learning stage, we have came to gather a list of sources that could provide us the best price without compromising on the quality.

At Redfin, we try our best to be cost effective without compromising on the quality.

Aside from getting busy with moving to our new place, we have been busy with setting up tanks for hobbyist. What we do is, we help them set up an entire set of tank at a very low cost.

A complete set inclusive of:-
1) Tank
2) A Full set of BioFilter
3) Fishes
4) Air Pump
5) Filter Pump
6) Inlet and Outlet Pipings (For water drip system)
7) Consultation

I will try to provide more information on the start up kit services in another post next time. Till then, if you have further enquiries on start up kit, do drop us an email at redfin.enterprise@gmail.com. We may be able to assist you.