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African Catfish


African catfish started from Africa and it is a freshwater fish animal types. It is exceptionally suitable for business and little scale cultivating. African catfish can be developed effectively in little measured lake ,gap or in a repository. They by and large live in lake and dive. They live in the lower level of water. African catfish is otherwise called some other name like magur, african magur, barbarian magur and so forth. Physical attributes, arrangement, food propensity, rearing, infections and nutritive estimation of African catfish are portrayed underneath.


Classification of African Catfish
Scientific classification of African catfish  are listed below.
  • Kingdom        :       Animalia
  • Phylum          :       Chordata
  • Class             :       Actinopterygii
  • Order             :       Siluriormes
  • Family           :       Clariidae
  • Genus            :       Clarias
  • Species         :       C. gariepinus
  • Scientific Name       :       Clarias gariepinus
Physical Characteristics of African Catfish
  • Body of African catfish is long and thick.
  • There is no scales in their body.
  • Head is skate.
  • Mouth is wide and crescent-shaped.
  • Mustache in front of their head.
  • Front side of their body is about globular.
  • Both side of rest is wide.
  • Body of this catfish is gray colored.
  • Caudal fin is globular.
  • Dorsal fin and anal fin are long.
  • They has extra lungs.

Feed
African catfish is omnivorous. Innards of dead animal is their main feed. They generally eat all types of feed. Insects, aquatic weeds, aquatic insects, small fish, snail etc are their favorite feed. They also expert to eat supplementary feed. The African catfish will grow very fast if it served supplementary feed containing 40% blood of animal, wheat chaff 20%, rich dust 20% and mustard cake 20%. For successful commercial catfish farming it requires 30-40% animal protein.
Breeding
The African catfish become suitable for reproduction within one year of age.

Diseases
African catfish generally don’t affected by any diseases. Their disease resistance power is very high. But if the quality of water get damaged then they may suffers by many diseases.

Nutritive Value
Nutritive value of African catfish are listed below.
NutritionNutritive Element (Per 100g fish)
Protein32g
Fat1g
Calcium172mg
Phosphorus300mg
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