Hello @riverflows and friends. The past few weeks it has been raining, several areas in North Sumatra have experienced flooding. Even the city of Medan, which is the capital of North Sumatra province, also experienced severe flooding. The city of Binjai, which is directly adjacent to the city of Medan, also experienced flooding in several areas. I live in the North Binjai area where there is still a lot of agricultural land. In front of my house there is agricultural land which is stagnant with water because of the rain, this agricultural land becomes dead land that cannot be planted, because this land is always flooded when it rains. This agricultural land is rice fields with lower soil conditions than the surrounding land. Before the housing was built, this agricultural land did not experience severe flooding, but since housing has been built, farmers cannot dispose of water into the ditch. This is because the housing area covers the waterway to the ditch/water disposal site.
I was also affected by the high rainfall. I should have been able to harvest catfish in the pond/garden, but because the rice fields in front were submerged in water, I couldn't distribute the pond water to the rice fields anymore. I have to wait for the water to recede so I can harvest the fish in the pond, even though the fish harvest time has passed, I usually harvest in early November, but I can't do it, it rains from mid-October with dense frequency.
I hope the water recedes quickly so I can harvest my catfish, if it continues too late then the cannibal catfish will cause me losses.
One thing I remember from living in Sumatra is that there was never any shortage of water! I enjoyed eating fresh catfish from local farms but didn't know that there are cannibal catfish too...I hope that you can harvest all of yours!
All types of catfish are cannibals, if someone is hungry then he will attack catfish in one pond. Because time is very valuable, if it is not harvested immediately, the strong catfish will attack the weak catfish. The children at home really like catfish, even though I prefer Vegan food, that's why I raise my own catfish to maintain the healthy food I feed the catfish. Thank you for your prayers @ligayagardener
I'd like to grow catfish here. I remember restaurants in the Sumatran countryside having their own ponds and enclosures at the back of them. That was a long time ago though, in the eay 90s. Maybe things have changed.
catfish can also be cultivated in concrete ponds, catfish is a type of freshwater fish that is very easy to maintain even in ponds with limited oxygen @ligayagardener