CATDOLL : CATDOLL: How to raise eels at home? I really want to raise them well.

1. Use a still water pool for breeding. The location of the breeding pool should be sheltered from the wind and facing the sun, with a good water source. The shape can be rectangular or oval, and the size depends on the scale of breeding.

2. Seven days before the release of eel fry, the fish pond should be cleaned and disinfected. Use 0.2 kg of quicklime per square meter of water surface and evenly sprinkle the entire pond. After disinfection, fill the entire pond with clean water. When releasing the eel fry, the water temperature in the eel fry transport container should not differ too much from the water temperature in the fish pond (3-5℃).

3. If there is enough feed, you can put more, if there is not enough feed, you can put less. Because the eels have the habit of eating the smaller ones and killing each other, they should be stocked in different ponds of different sizes. You must choose eel seedlings with strong physique, no injuries or diseases, and uniform specifications for stocking, and avoid mixing large and small eels.

4. For the young eels that have just hatched for 4-5 days, they are mainly fed with water fleas, cooked egg yolks, soy milk, etc. Among them, live water fleas and live rotifers cultured in water are the best. Therefore, the water quality should be fertilized at this time so that there are sufficient water fleas and rotifers in the fish pond for the eel fry to eat. Later, as the eels grow up, they can be gradually fed with earthworms, snails and clams, etc. At the same time, they should be supplemented with some plant feeds, such as wheat bran, rice, fruits, vegetables, etc.

Additional information:

There are indeed many parasites in the eel's body. They live in the eel's bones. The parasites are in lines of varying lengths and are all brown in color. The nematodes on the eel that can be seen with the naked eye are the larvae of the sparganum mansoni, called procercariae. Procercariae mainly parasitize on tadpoles and grow up with the tadpoles.

Eels can also become infected if they eat tadpoles or frogs infected with procercariae. If a person eats an infected eel, the procercariae enter the body and develop into adult worms, which sometimes enter the brain.

The more common parasites in the eel are capillaries and acanthocephala, both of which are visible to the naked eye. These two parasites will absorb the nutrients in the eel, causing the eel to become weak, anemic, lose appetite, and seriously affect its growth and development, or even die.

Parasites are mainly in the intestines of the eel, which is not the part that humans eat, so even if they are there, they will not have much impact.

Reference source: Baidu Encyclopedia - Yellow eel

People's Daily Online - Are there parasites in eels? Pay attention to these when cooking eels

Artificially cultivated eels are mainly fed with earthworms, maggots, small fish and shrimps, animal offal, slaughter scraps, compound feed, and fresh feed such as bran, rice, rice bran, bean cake, tofu dregs, and melon and fruit peels. Do not feed them with rotten and spoiled feed. It is best to grind animal feed and plant feed and mix them into granular feed for feeding. The size of the granules depends on the size of the eel, and it is generally appropriate to swallow it in one bite. The eel feeds by sipping and sucking, swallowing food into the stomach without chewing. When encountering relatively large food, the eel often bites it and bites off the food by rotating its body. In the peak feeding season of eels, if there is a shortage of feed, eels will also eat eels smaller than themselves. Therefore, when stocking, choose eel species of the same size and specifications, and avoid mixing large and small eels.

If you use tap water, you have to leave it there for two days before you can raise it. The foods that eels are sensitive to and that they like to eat the most are, in this order: earthworms, river clam meat, snail meat, fly maggots, fresh fish meat, etc. Eels are omnivorous fish that mainly feed on animal feed. The food composition of eels is somewhat different in different growth periods.

Young eels eat egg yolks, water worms and earthworms.

Young eels eat water silkworms, earthworms, rotifers, cladocerans, and mosquito larvae.

Adult eels mainly feed on earthworms, small fish, snail meat, clam meat, shrimps, tadpoles, small frogs and insects.

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