Fishes in ponds feel colder than fishes living in river, sea, and lake water. Therefore, efforts are made to keep the water of ponds normal, especially from November to January. The stagnant water of ponds becomes cold quickly. In such a situation, fish farmers also spray many types of medicines in the pond.
Fish is the queen of water, water is its life. Everyone must have heard and read this line in childhood. Of course, water is the life of fish, but it is also true that in this water, fish also fall sick and even their lives are in danger. It is not that if a fish lives in water, it does not feel cold in winter, or it does not fall sick due to cold. If we believe the fisheries experts, even the fish that live in water for 24 hours feel cold. Fish also fall sick due to cold.
Maybe all these things sound strange, but this is the truth. From November to January, fish feel very cold. During this time, many measures are taken to protect the fish from cold and disease. These measures also include exercise done in the morning. The special thing is that the fishes themselves change their living place to avoid the cold.
Fishes are bathed with warm water to remove the cold.
Fish farmer and expert MD Khan told Bollyxz that the water of the pond starts getting cold in November itself. Especially in the morning and evening, the water becomes very cold. Whereas the fish in the pond need water with a temperature of 25 to 30 degrees to live comfortably.
Therefore, as soon as the temperature of the water starts going below 25 degrees, the fish are bathed with warm water to give them warmth. For this, the fish are bathed in underground water with the help of a pump in the morning and evening. The water coming out of the ground is lukewarm, so after mixing with the cold water of the pond, it makes the entire water normal. But this process is adopted only in small ponds.
Buffaloes are made to exercise to give heat to the fish.
Fish breeder Murali Pal said that when the size of the pond is big, it is not possible to bathe the fish with groundwater. Nor is it possible to mix groundwater with the cold water of the pond and make it normal. Now in such a situation, a net is put in the pond to make the water normal and to bring heat to the fish.
Two things happen by doing this. Firstly, as soon as the net is put in, the fish swim fast in the pond. Second, by putting the net, there is turmoil in the water, so the cold water starts becoming normal. Now if the ponds are too big and the number of workers is less, then buffaloes are put in the pond. Seeing a big animal in the pond, there is a commotion among the fish and they start running here and there in the water.
Fishes change their living place as soon as the water gets cold.
Murali said that when the fishes feel that the water of the pond has become cold or is about to become cold, they change their living place. According to the species, fishes have their living place in the pond. Some like to live on the surface and some at the bottom. Some live in the middle of the water. This is the reason that as soon as the water gets cold, the fishes living on the surface and in the middle go to the bottom of the pond. Because the water below the pond remains normal as compared to the surface.