What food does the black carp eat? Introduction to its main food types

The black carp is a fish with a bluish color, mainly distributed in the plain areas south of the Yangtze River in China, and relatively scarce north of the Yangtze River. It is an important fishery resource in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River and in lakes along the river, and a major culture species in various lakes and ponds. It is one of the "Four Major Chinese Carps" of freshwater aquaculture in China. Let's take a look below at what food the black carp eats!

What food does the black carp eat?

The black carp usually inhabits the middle and lower layers of the water. Its food consists mainly of river snails, mussels, clams, and corbicula, and it also preys on shrimp and insect larvae. At the fry stage, it feeds mainly on zooplankton.

Feed formulas for black carp

1. Hay powder 40%, silkworm pupae 30%, rapeseed cake 10%, barley 20%, feed conversion ratio 3.

2. Green hay 40%, cottonseed cake 30%, soybean cake 10%, rapeseed cake 5%, silkworm pupae 5%, fishmeal 5%, naked barley 5%, feed conversion ratio 3.

3. Soybean cake 47.5%, fishmeal 35%, yeast 1%, inorganic salts and others 16.5%, feed conversion ratio 2.26.

4. Fishmeal 10%, soybean cake 24%, rapeseed cake 15%, wheat bran 15%, barley and corn 20%, gluten powder 6%, rapeseed oil phospholipids 6%, others 4%. Crude protein 29.44%. Culture species and method: black carp as the main species, polycultured with silver carp, bighead carp, grass carp, bream, etc. Feed conversion ratio 2.07.

5. Fishmeal 5%, soybean cake 35%, wheat bran 18%, corn 15%, native flour 10%, yeast 5%, rapeseed cake 10%, multivitamins 0.15%, inorganic salts 1%, soybean oil 1%. Crude protein 27.4%. Culture species and method: black carp as the main species, polycultured with silver carp, bighead carp, etc. Feed conversion ratio 2.51.

6. Fishmeal 5%, silkworm pupae 5%, soybean cake 14%, rapeseed cake 43%, corn 10%, wheat bran 14%, inorganic salts 5%, fish oil 2%, lysine 0.5%, methionine 0.2%, multivitamins 0.3%, binder 1%. Crude protein 30%. Culture species and method: black carp as the main species, polycultured with silver carp, bighead carp, grass carp, etc. Feed conversion ratio 2.1 to 2.2.

7. Fishmeal 6%, blood meal 2%, soybean cake 12%, rapeseed cake 20%, cottonseed cake 20%, rice bran cake 6%, barley 15%, corn gluten meal 15%, premix additive 4%. Crude protein 31.7%. Culture species and method: pond culture with black carp as the main species, polycultured with silver carp, bighead carp, grass carp, etc. Feed conversion ratio 2.4.

8. Fishmeal 12%, silkworm pupae 8%, meat and bone meal 1%, soybean cake 15%, cottonseed cake 10%, rapeseed cake 20%, bran 10%, germ cake 10%, wheat middlings 8%, premix 6%. Crude protein 32%. Culture species and method: pond culture with black carp as the main species, polycultured with silver carp, bighead carp, grass carp, etc. Feed conversion ratio 2.2.

9. Soybean cake 40%, rapeseed cake 30%, compound amino acids 5%, bran 11%, mixed powder 10%, minerals 2%, table salt 2%. Crude protein 30.7%. Culture species and method: pond culture with black carp as the main species, polycultured with silver carp and bighead carp. Feed conversion ratio 2.1.

Bait formulas for catching black carp

1. Wheat bran 200 grams, one bag each of commercial bait (finished bait for catching black carp and grass carp), mix and add water to make a bait ball of moderate softness and hardness.

2. Steam sweet potato until eight-tenths cooked (it can be mashed), then add an appropriate amount of flour (70% sweet potato, 30% flour), knead into a ball, and wrap it around a bomb hook.

3. Remove the shell from river snails, cut the snail meat into small cubes, and hook them for direct use. The hook point should be slightly exposed.

4. Mix minced river snail meat into mashed sweet potato, add a small amount of flour, and knead into a ball.

5. Mashed sweet potato 500 grams, half a bag of the finished bait "Yitianjian", 50 grams of millet soaked in liquor, knead into a ball and wrap it around a bomb hook.

6. Mussel meat and corbicula meat can both be used as bait for catching black carp. They can be hooked directly, or mixed with bran, white flour, and mashed sweet potato.

7. Steam sweet potato until eight-tenths cooked, cut into small pieces, and thread onto the hook. The sweet potato pieces can also be dipped in batter, liquor, or flavor essence.

8. Steam sweet potato until eight-tenths cooked, mash it, mix it into flour, make a dough and put it on the hook. Catching black carp in August to September (the rice harvest season) works very well.

9. Mix bran, corn flour, and shrimp powder (or silkworm pupae powder) with water to make a dough and put it on the hook.