CATDOLL : CATDOLL: Can lotus root and loach be eaten together?

1. Can lotus root and loach be eaten together?

Yes. Because loaches feed on animal food in their juvenile stage, such as zooplankton, chironomid larvae, and silk earthworms. When they grow up, in addition to eating a variety of insects, they can also eat filamentous algae, plant roots, stems, leaves, and humus. Adult loaches mainly feed on plant food. Lotus grows in fertile ponds, where there is a lot of food to use. Lotus roots grow in mud at a depth of about 40 cm without being harmed. They are ecologically farmed and can coexist.

2. What is the effect of cooking loach and lotus root together?

It has the effects of replenishing the middle qi and stopping bleeding. The Chinese Medicine Dictionary states: Loach (sweet and flat in nature) replenishes the middle qi and removes dampness, and treats diabetes, impotence, infectious hepatitis, hemorrhoids, and scabies. Lotus root nodes stop bleeding and disperse blood stasis, and treat hemoptysis, hematemesis, epistaxis, hematuria, bloody stool, bloody dysentery, and metrorrhagia. The two are used together to achieve the effects of replenishing the middle qi and stopping bleeding.

3. Does anyone know the specific technology for raising lotus roots and loaches together?

1. Breeding place. The water temperature range for loach growth is 15-30 degrees, and the optimum water temperature is 22-28 degrees. For mixed breeding in lotus ponds, the inlet and outlet should be protected with nets to prevent loach from escaping.

2. Stocking of seedlings. Before stocking the loach seedlings, they should be soaked in 2% salt water for 20 minutes, or in 3.2 million units of penicillin/cubic meter for 15 minutes, which can effectively prevent diseases. The stocking density of the lotus pond is generally calculated based on the production of 400 to 500 kilograms of adult fish per mu, and 2,000 to 3,000 fish can be stocked.

3. Scientific feeding. Loach is an omnivorous fish. Small plants and animals, microorganisms and organic debris in the water are all its favorite foods. Artificial breeding can also directly feed aquatic insects, earthworms, maggots, river clams, snails, fish meal, wild fish, livestock and poultry scraps, etc. Loach is very greedy for animal bait. It is not advisable to feed too much when raising it, so as not to overeat, hinder intestinal breathing and cause death. If the above-mentioned animal and plant baits cannot meet its growth needs, you can also feed it with special expanded granular feed for loach.

Artificial breeding requires daily inspection of the pond and feeding twice a day: 8-9 am and 4-5 pm. The amount of feed depends on the water temperature. Below 20 degrees, it is 3% of the fish's body weight, and 22-28 degrees is 6% of the fish's body weight. In rainy and hot weather, the amount of feed should be appropriately reduced.

Loaches raised in lotus ponds generally do not need to be fed, and the yield per mu can reach about 400 catties. If they are fed, the density can be appropriately increased, and the yield per mu can reach about 1,500 catties.

4. Disease prevention and control. Loach has strong disease resistance and rarely gets sick. Common diseases include parasitic diseases, red fin disease, and printing disease.

Parasitic diseases: The main ones are wheelworms, cupworms and trichodina. Loaches infected by these insects often float on the water surface and turn around restlessly.

Prevention and control methods: Spray 0.7PPM copper sulfate and ferrous sulfate (5:2) mixture.

Red fin disease: caused by infection with Brevibacterium brevis, part of the epidermis near the dorsal fin falls off and becomes grayish white. In severe cases, the fin rays are exposed, the fish stops eating, and eventually dies.

Prevention and control methods: Soak in 10-50PPM chloramphenicol (or oxytetracycline) solution for 10-15 minutes, once a day for five consecutive days, or soak in 10PPM tetracycline solution for 12 hours.

Printing disease: caused by infection with Aeromonas punctata. The lesions are generally oval or round, swollen, and have erythema. The affected area is mainly at the base of the caudal peduncle.

5. After picking lotus roots, place nylon ground dragons in the mud, and you can catch 70% to 80% at one time.