Crayfish is more complex to eat, it generally eats aquatic plant roots and leaves, but also eat animal food, such as earthworms, pupae, snails, mussels, etc.
Because crawfish is very popular in the market, many aquaculture farmers want to breed crawfish, but they don’t know what kind of food crawfish usually eats. Let’s go and find out.
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Crayfish have miscellaneous feeding habits, and they do not have high requirements for feeding food. crayfish like to eat green plants such as water hyacinth and water lilies, as well as insect larvae and earthworms. Breeders also like to eat green grass and animal bait.
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Plant feed: The roots of plants in the water and aquatic plants are the foods that lobsters like to eat. The aquatic plants that they can eat include goldfish algae, water duckweed and bitter grass. In addition, bean dregs and bean cakes can also be used as lobster feed.
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Animal feed: During the feeding process, some animal food can be fed, such as small fish and shrimp that cannot be sold in the market, as well as the viscera of poultry and livestock, which can be used as the feed for crayfish.
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When feeding crayfish feed, do not feed powder feed, so as not to cause the gills of the crayfish is blocked, feed before feeding with water mixing, put in the sun for a day and then evenly scattered into the pond. Adult crayfish feeding conditions can be changed according to the season, water quality and shrimp growth state, generally can be directly fed to small fish, earthworms and other feed, but to ensure that the daily feed protein content is sufficient.
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Before stocking crayfish, it is necessary to fertilize the water body of the shrimp pond, so as to ensure that within 15 days after the shrimp seedlings are put in, even if they are fed without feeding, it will not affect the growth and feeding of the crayfish. Before putting broodstock or shrimp seedlings in at the end of August every year, enough decomposed farmyard manure should be spread in the pond as a base fertilizer as much as possible, and the general ratio is 300 catties/mu.
