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Want to learn more about raising Freshwater Prawn Get our new E-book and access to our video's for only 19.95. How to Raise Freshwater prawn  for Fun and Profit contains 41 pages of information to help get you started raising Freshwater Prawn in ponds or tanks. So order your copy today Just click on the link below !  Follow us on Twitter @ vashrimpn and tweet us "give me the free report"  and  get a  copy of the Monterey Bay Seafood Report telling all about the great benefits of Freshwater Prawn Aquaculture in the United States.

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How to Raise Freshwater Prawn for Fun and Profit

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So you wanna raise Freshwater prawns?

DSCN4953.JPGWhether a backyard hobbiest or into commercial production we can help with your questions, and help get you on your way to raising your own freshwater prawns (macrobrachium).

Monday, February 28, 2011

Information on Diy Solar Water Heating
Heres some information on solar water heating. Im thinking of adding a collector tank to each panel to allow for more heating. Thinking of using old water heaters for the collectors.
Heres the website they charge for a book but it has got some really good information.Click Here
11:34 am est 

Sunday, February 27, 2011

Finished 2nd Solar Water Heating Panel

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Finished 2nd solar water heating panel. Covered first water panel thinking would get a greenhouse effect but it seems to have cut off heating ability. as soon as new panel hooked up with look at difference between the 2 panels.

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Finished setting up filter system and air Lifts.

 

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Final Tank Cleaning and Water exchange.

 

Dont Forget to place your Order For Prawns now. 

Visit our new fanpage on facebook and please give us a like!

 

10:33 am est 

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Completing the Solar Hot Water Heating Panels

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Starting the Coil we put screws next to hose to help 

Hold the tubing in place.

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We coiled about 400 ft of hose into this panel

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You got to be careful not to kink up hose

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1st panel 2 more to go. Water temp going in was 62

water coming out was 70 after one hour.

 

9:24 am est 

Thursday, January 20, 2011

Video Update on Shrimp Nursery Rebuild
We just posted a new video showing some of the progree we have made rebuilding the shrimp nursery. This weekend we will reinstall the filters and airlifts, Then we are goning to start building our solar water heating system. So glad you visited and thanks to everyone for thier support.
Stay tuned more stuff on the way.
8:28 pm est 

Monday, December 20, 2010

Were Back

Well It's taken awhile but we are finally finishing up our repairs that were caused by the fire in april. We look forward to 2011 and helping to serve our new and past customers. Will post some pictures of our completed building soon.We appreciate all your support and wish everyone a happy holiday season.

We will begin taking orders for Juveniles in january. Please make sure to place your orders in january.

6:07 pm est 

Thursday, September 2, 2010

Smell of Football and Prawn in the Air.

Soon it will be smell of paint. Beginning to get the building put back together but looking forward to some football and some Prawns. Harvest time is right around the corner most farms should begin draining ponds at the end of September. Thompson Prawn Farm in Cedar Grove ,NC will be harvesting Sept 30.2010 rain or shine so come on out and join us for some BBQ and fresh prawn. Im gonna get me some you better get you some too.

8:27 pm edt 

Sunday, July 25, 2010

The prawn tanks have arrived,
Well after a month and half of work the equipment has finally be taken down and moved to its new home In North Carolina and the work has begun to the freshwater prawn facility in Virginia. Turned out to be alot of work to take the stuff apart im sure it will be even more fun to put it back together. Oh well they never said farming was easy. And certainly not aqua farming. So we will soon start to repair the Virginia recirculating tank setup so check back often or follow us on facebook or twitter.
7:25 pm edt 

Sunday, June 6, 2010

Let the move Begin
Well we got really lucky and bought out an old Tilapia reseach facilitys equipment so we began tearing everything down and our moving it to our new location. We will be posting videos as we reconstruct our recirculating systems. so check back often for updates or follow us on twitter @vashrimpn.
10:42 am edt 

special June pricing
Get our Ebook How to Raise Freshwater Prawn for fun and profit during the month of June for only 9.99 when you follow us on twitter, Just follow us at vashrimpn and send us an email for special pricing.
10:39 am edt 

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Picking up the pieces
Well we are slowly making progress, We moved out all the juvenile prawn we could but we suffered heavy losses. We were able to bring up enough Freshwater prawn from the hatchery in texas to satisfy just about all of farmers orders that we had. Aquaculture of texas  will be able to bring up more prawn in June to fulfill any remaing orders. So email us if you need prawn. We will only have prawn for pick-up in Virginia.
7:01 pm edt 

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juvenile prawn ready for pond stocking

 
Juvenile Freshwater prawn(macrobrachium) are stocked in our tanks in March-April and ready to move to grow out ponds in June.
Prawn are then fed a diet of high protein feed in pristine waters to grow a natural and Sustainable product.
Ponds are drain harvested in September and early October.
Harvests as high as 1,000 lbs per acre are possible. 
 

We are proud members of the following organizations:

Virginia Aqua-Farmers Network
Virginia Aquaculture Association
United States Prawn Growers Association

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Full grown prawn ready for harvest



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