The snapper can grow about 1-1.5 pounds a year.

The snapper fry can grow about 1-1.5 pounds a year, the first year of slow growth, probably only half a catty or so, the second year will grow faster, the general culture of two years can grow to about 2 pounds.

How to raise snapper?

1, the environment: snappers mainly live in lakes, ponds and reservoirs, like slow-moving waters, as a reptile, it is also often in the shore activities, prefer the sun, but very afraid of the wind, and very sensitive to the sound of the surroundings, a little noise will immediately drill to the water to hide, so keep it to keep quiet.

2, control the water temperature: snappers suitable growth temperature of 20-30 ℃, the temperature is too high or too low will affect the snapper's intake, resulting in a waste of feed.

3, feeding method: according to the air temperature, water temperature and snappers' feeding amount and other factors, adjust the feeding amount reasonably, underwater feeding is generally appropriate to eat within 30 minutes. Snapper fry individuals would have been very small, the amount of food intake is not much, in our aquaculture will sometimes be fed according to the percentage of body weight, the general seedling a day's intake of about 8% of its body weight, don't overfeeding, otherwise it is easy to cause gastrointestinal discomfort and death.

4, regulation of water quality: snappers like clean and afraid of dirty, so keep the water clean is to promote it can grow up as soon as possible one of the conditions, usually need regular sewage, and according to the water quality of the water reasonable, when the water body does not have enough oxygen need to be supplemented in a timely manner, to prevent the snappers because of the lack of sufficient oxygen, which affects the growth of the snappers.