What are the main reasons rice field eels are so difficult to farm?

The rice field eel is quite common, and quite a few people around us farm them, but not everyone can keep at it. Why are rice field eels so difficult to farm? Let's take a look together!

1. Why rice field eels are so difficult to farm

Seed stock is hard to select; at present, artificial breeding of rice field eel seed stock is still at the exploratory stage. Technology is hard to master, and rice field eel farming has not yet reached scale; there is no fairly systematic technical theory, and most farmers are crossing the river by feeling for stones. Environmental awareness is weak: rice field eel farming has especially high environmental requirements, yet many farmers pay very little attention to the environment, which very easily leads to disease and even death of the rice field eel fry.

2. Why does rice field eel farming fail?

1. Random purchase of seed stock: many farmers buy so-called “artificially farmed” seed stock or other so-called “high-quality” seed stock from other regions, when in fact these are collected wild seed stock, and because of temporary holding and unscientific handling during multi-stage storage and transport, the mortality rate during farming is over 90%.

2. Not being selective about varieties: by appearance, rice field eels include types such as dark yellow with large spots, earthy red with large spots, light yellow with fine spots, and blue-gray with fine spots. Only by choosing the first two can you get faster growth, and only then can artificial farming achieve ideal economic returns.

3. Mixed farming of large and small: when large and small are mixed in the same pond, the small eels do not dare compete for food and become weak or even die, and when feed is insufficient the large eels swallow the small ones. Therefore, with mixed farming of large and small eels, although the large eels grow fast, the total pond output is low.