Classification of Pond Aquaculture

Ponds is an artificial water limited extent smaller than a lake, purposely created man for the purpose of Aquaculture and easily mastered in a sense easily filled with water, to dry, and easily managed in accordance with the purpose of fish farming

Classification / kind of Pond

Ground Pond

A. By way of making

There are two kinds of pond, the pond dike (dam) and a dig. Pond embankment dam built in a way or make a levee on one side or four-side location will be made pond. While dug pond constructed by digging ground level candidate pool, and then filled with water. The best way of making a pool is to merge the activities of digging and embank.

 

B. Based on water resources

Intensive Permanent Ponds

1. Rain-fed pond, the Pond of source water comes from rain water. For example, with the former sand quarry, quarrying bricks or tiles. Rain-fed pond is characterized: no doors inflows and outflows of water so that no air circulation; during the rainy season will experience floods and droughts will dry.
2. Pond fountains, pond water source for this type comes from springs located around the pool, even some that became one with a pool.
3. Irrigation Pond, the Pond of source water comes from irrigation water so that there is continuity throughout the year.
4. Ground-water basin, the Pond of source water comes from ground water or shallow.

C. Based on the shape of pool

1. rectangle
2. square
3. circle
4. triangle
5. channel

D. Based on the function of the pool

1. Parent pool maintenance, serves as a maintenance parents fish will fish spawning or breeding. Over which the males and females separately, with water intake systems in parallel.
2. Spawning ponds, pond serves as a meeting between the male and female in order to fertilize the eggs released by the female parent sperm from the male parent. Before being used for spawning, this pool should be dried first.
3. Hatching eggs Pond, hatching eggs serves as a spawning results.
4. Outdoor nursery, served as a nursery larvae to seed size, that are ready seed back at a later stage or raised in rearing ponds. Outdoor nursery generally consists of several stages, the nursery I, II, and so on. Nursery pond size is quite varied ranging from 250 m2 to 10,000 m2.
5. Rearing ponds, serves as a place to raise seeds from the nursery to measure consumption.
6. Outdoor natural foods, serves as a place to grow natural food such as Moina, Daphnia.

   

   Natural Food Pond

7. Settling ponds, serves as a deposition of mud or other particles carried by the water source before it is put into the pond Aquaculture.
8. Results ponds, serves as a place to accommodate the fish harvest, either seed or fish consumption.