@tiki_fishfarm: Can Native Catfish Grow Big Again? My 1,500 Eja aro Experiment Begins Today on the farm, I’m starting a new experiment with our native Nigerian catfish – the ones we used to find big in the wild but are now disappearing. These are called Clarias batrachus (Eja aro in Yoruba, evewarie in Benin), and I bought 1,500 pieces straight from the creek. They’re small now, but some of these could already be 5–6 months old. So the question is — can they grow big again in captivity? I’m putting them in a pond with my tilapia to observe them for the next 8 months. I’ll be feeding them with catfish intestines and monitoring their growth closely. This fish is one of the sweetest native catfish in Nigeria, and I believe it deserves preservation. If this works, we might be looking at a way to reintroduce this species into structured aquaculture. Follow this journey and let’s see how these wild survivors perform in a farm setting! #TikiFishFarm #EjaruExperiment #NativeCatfish #ClariasBatrachus #FishFarmingNigeria

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