How to Make Floating Fish Feed for Catfish Farm

LIMA fish feed machine manufacturer

Henan Lima Machinery Co., Ltd is a leading manufacturer of pellet feed machines in China. Its floating fish feed extruder machine has been sold worldwide, including in Nigeria, Malawi, Ghana, Zambia,  Cameroon, Tanzania, Pakistan, and Thailand. Clients can buy small fish feed machines, poultry food machines, and large fish feed and feed production lines to satisfy their needs.

Floating fish feed machines also called fish feed extruders, are widely used for producing high-grade aquatic feed for fish, such as catfish, tilapia fish, shrimp, crab, etc. It can also make pet food for cats, and dogs. The power supply can be divided into diesel engine feed extruder and electric engine feed extruder.

Diesel engine fish feed extruder

The diesel engine fish feed extruder is driven by a diesel engine and operates on this basis. The capacity is from 40 kg to 400kg per hour. Low noise, high output, and low energy consumption. It is good for storage and transportation. The operation and maintenance of this equipment are simple, safe, and reliable. More importantly, a floating fish feed making machine with diesel engine does not need electricity, and the machine work can be done anywhere, solving the problem of inconvenient electricity use. It is used in the production o f floating fish feed, suitable for small, and medium farm production.

The differences between feed pellet machine and extruder machine

1) The feed pellet machine uses a die to compress the raw material into dense pellets. Granular binders are often required in formulations to aid the cohesion of the granules.

2) The extruder machine will reduce the density through significant starch gelatinization, and swelling. In most cases, the addition of a particulate binder is not required.

3) When making floating fish feed, the extruder can adjust the buoyancy of the granules by adjusting the degree of starch gelatinization, which is affected by many variables, including moisture content, extrusion temperature, amount of shear produced, and mold size.

4) Lower microbial load and palatability are essential for pet food and squeezing improves both.

5) The extruder allows you to use more grease without producing a lot of pellets, increasing pellet integrity.

In conclusion, extruders are used for many purposes and molding is only one of them, but pelletizers are mainly used for molding or producing pellets. An extruder is often referred to as a fish feed extruder because it produces floating feed, while a pellet mill includes all feed equipment (including sinking feed).

Pellet sizes

Our floating fish feed machine can produce different sizes and shapes of pellets from 0.8mm-12mm by changing the molds, feeding on various stages of fish

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Question and Answer

1.How about the quality assurance？

Our company has been established for more than ten years. All products have passed CE and ISO9001 quality certificates. We have a professional department to test and adjust machines before shipping for you. We also have certifications in SGS, PC, and SONCAP.

2.How about the warranty？

Our warranty is one year. Our reception is 24 hours on the line talking with you. If the machine has any problems within one year, we offer repair service for free, free accessories, except for man-made damage.

3.Do we need to install the machine?

If you purchase a production line, we will have an engineer come to installation, 100 USD/engineer for one day, typically needs 2-3 engineers. We have operation instructions and videos to guide you if you buy small machines. If you still have problems, we provide professional service and teach you. We make sure your device is working very well 100%.

4.How to pay, payment method?

T/T or L/C at sight. By T/T 40% as down payment, 60% by T/T before delivery.

5.How can I know the status of my order?

We will send you photos and videos of your order at different stages in time and keep you informed of the latest information. We also can give you the shipping company website you can follow any time.

6.How do I use local materials to make the feed you do in your video？

We will provide the formula for free, and we can make the recipe based on your local ingredients, don’t worry about it.

7.Are the parts replaceable?

Parts can be replaced, so you can buy some spare parts when you buy our machine.

8.How to maintain the fish feed machine?

In fact, you need to clean the screw and cutter parts after each work, so that the machine is not prone to problems with regular maintenance.

9.I don’t know the capacity, how to calculate my capacity?

If you buy ten 25kg bags of feed a day, you need 250kg a day.

10.Shrimp, cats, and dogs can all be made with a fish machine. What are they made of?

The same machine can produce different feeds. It only needs to change the mold and related raw materials.