A Civil Engineer Making Money From Fish Farming (Video)
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page 0 · 31 posts · 26 participants
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This thread features a promotional video about a civil engineer successfully transitioning to fish farming, sparking a debate between optimists who see agriculture as a lucrative niche and skeptics who warn of high costs, capital requirements, and the gap between online propaganda and reality. The discussion highlights the difficulty of the sector, with users citing expensive feed, high mortality rates, and the need for specialized expertise rather than just capital. The conversation also drifts into broader socio-economic grievances regarding graduate unemployment, government policies, and the perceived laziness of the youth waiting for government intervention.
Pain points:
feed_too_expensivebird_mortalityno_creditno_buyersprice_crash
Credibility signals:
citing years of experiencenaming farm size or locationreferencing an association
“There's serious 'blood' money flowing around. I don't mean rituals. I mean money that appears to come from magic.”
“Be aware of all these news of making money from fish, to maize to ugu and okra, it's a propaganda from government to make you look lazy and blamed for your government induced hardship and hunger.”
“Broilers are unpredictable. When they die na your neighbors go wake you up because their death dey like nuclear death.”
Unclassified: Discussion on graduate unemployment and the social stigma of engineers entering agriculture.
page 1 · 32 posts · 22 participants
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This thread is a heated discussion reacting to a video about a civil engineer making money from fish farming. The conversation oscillates between validating the business as a viable side hustle for those with excess capital and warning against it as a risky venture for those seeking to make a living, citing high mortality rates and feed costs. A significant portion of the debate focuses on the credibility of the video creator and the reality of losses versus profits in the Nigerian context.
Pain points:
feed_too_expensivebird_mortalityno_buyersdefraudedno_credit
Credibility signals:
citing personal experience of failureclaiming to be a former fish farmermentioning specific business capacity (hatchery producing 150k fingerlings)referencing past investments and losses
“D fish feeds are now very expensive ehn.... And buyers don't buy well...”
“I remember my experience when i stocked 6000 fingerlings... everything that i got back was around 93k.”
failed
“I did it 21 years ago got ruined and had to start all over.”
Unclassified: The thread contains significant off-topic political banter regarding Nigerian governance and the behavior of the public, which distracts from the agricultural discussion.
page 2 · 15 posts · 7 participants
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This thread is a community-driven Q&A session where a user asks for advice on starting a fish farm with 300 fingerlings in a 3,000-litre GP tank. Experienced users strongly advise against the proposed setup, detailing technical reasons related to fish movement, water quality, and growth rates, while suggesting ground ponds with proper inflow/outflow systems instead. The discussion also touches on the value of external training and mentorship for success in the sector.
Credibility signals:
citing personal experience and knowledgereferencing specific training locations abroadtechnical explanation of fish behavior and tank physics
“Cat Fishes don't swim that much during the day time but at night, those fishes are V8 engine when it's dark that's when they love to swim and move around.”
“I know a guy on this nairaland that was running at loss from this fish farming, but took the fish farming serious by traveling to Songhai in Porto novo, benin to learn about the rudiment of fish farming and was catching out big time after the training.”