What is the reason that Taiwan loach grows fast?
Friends engaged in loach farming mostly source their fry from wild catches, and the experience they have accumulated is all one-sided information about this kind of loach fry. As for the growth speed of loach, they have already been bound by this framework. The angles they can discuss stop at which place has good loach fry and which place has bad ones. Beyond that?
Friends engaged in loach breeding, because of differences in how early or late they got involved, also differ somewhat in their skill. If you have bred loach and raised these fry (hatchling survival rate is not discussed here), you will discover what the growth speed of this kind of artificially bred loach is like. Heard about it, seen it, done it - there are differences among these three as well.
The above is just an introduction, meant to tell friends watching this article that you must clearly know which stage you are at on the road of loach farming. You need to understand yourself, and you also need to understand the industry. The broader your understanding, the better it is for you - it is by no means just hearsay.
What I am about to mention below will be things most people do not know. I suggest you just listen to it casually.
Loach, in my view, as far as yellow loach is concerned, there is no difference in variety. Starting in 2006, I carried out artificial loach breeding work for the first time. The sources of brood loach I have used to date include local Lianyungang, Northeast China, Shandong, Anhui, Henan, Yinchuan, and Taiwan, China. The results I produced: after the second generation of these loaches was farmed, the characteristics they exhibited were basically the same, with no obvious differences visible. Their characteristic appearance is extremely similar to the loach fry from Fan County, Henan - pale color, short, wide and plump body, with the upper part of the tail end raised (this characteristic is more obvious than in Fan County fry).
What comes next is to connect to another key point mentioned in the previous article: another more main factor in the rapid growth of Taiwan loach is that Taiwan loach is 100 percent artificially bred, with absolutely no source of wild-caught fry. The so-called rapid growth of Taiwan loach is actually just the biggest characteristic of artificially bred fry. In other words, what you buy is the fry bred from Taiwan brood loach or the fry bred from your local brood loach - they are completely identical, and there is no obvious difference at all. Based on the results of my many years of experiments, this is the fact. I believe that friends who understand this point are very, very few. This includes friends who buy and sell so-called Taiwan variety loach, because the time they have spent simultaneously breeding mainland brood loach and Taiwan brood loach is not long, so it is understandable that they themselves are also in a fog.
Friends who buy and sell the Taiwan loach variety are not necessarily intentionally telling a lie, because it is very likely that they themselves cannot figure out what is going on. But you and I, being clever, how can we fail to distinguish right from wrong and blindly invest? I assert here that friends who buy 200 yuan for 10,000 Taiwan variety loach fry to farm will absolutely lose money, and this will be verified next year.