There are two kind of fish feed diets on fish farming ,floating fish feed pellet and traditional sinking fish feed pellet .Both floating and sinking feed pellet can produce satisfactory growth, but different fish with different feeding requirements,some fish prefer floating, others sinking. The user choice of whether to use floating or sinking pellets mainly depends on which type of fish species that you have.
There are both advantage in the two types of pellets. but floating pellets provides more advantages compared to sinking ones:
1.Easy digestion
The digestive tract of fishes is short, the ripening degree of extruded fish feed has great influence on the growth of fishes,which is easy digestion by fish.
2.Less waste
Sinking type fish feed pellets that remain at the bottom of the tank will often get lost and wasted. But the floating feed pellets can retain its shape and floating on the the water more than 20 hours, uneaten feed are still intact.
3.Decrease Disease.
Sinking pellets that remain at the bottom of the tank will eventually rot, which may give rise to proliferation of bacteria and spreading of harmful fish disease.
4.Convenient Observation.
Floating fish feed pellet can float on the water ,the farmers can directly observe the feeding intensity of his fish and adjust feeding rates accordingly. Determining whether feeding rates are too low or too high is important in maximizing fish growth and feed use efficiency. However, sinking pellets will fall into the bottom of the tank, even fish can not find them.
In order to make feed nutrients of fish feed be absorbed by fishes to the greatest extent, extruded fish feed made by [url]fish feed pellet mill http://www.victorpelletmill.com/product/fish-feed-pellet-mill-for-sale/ should have good stability. So the ripening degree is an important factor for identifying feed quality. Sinking characteristic of sinking fish feed in another important factor. Good quality sinking fish feeds can all sink in the water and the sinking speed is controlled strictly.
According to above information,you can see that floating fish feed pellets have recently become readily available in quantities that may make their use more feasible. also save cost for fish farmer.

The floating fish feed production line http://www.victorpelletmill.com/product/floating-fish-feed-production-line/ can make fish feed pellet ,shrimp feed pellet,pet food, as well as aquaculture-fodder and fishery feed.It is mainly used to process the maize flour, soybean flour or compound powder, wheat bran into high grade aquatic feed pellets for fish, catfish, shrimps, dog,.cat etc.The owner can use different moulds to produce size and shape feed pellet , the machine can produce different diameter food, such as 0.9mm,1.5mm, 2.5mm ,6mm,8mm,10mm etc. So the food can meet different stage fish.According to customers' demand and production scale, floating fish feed machine includes two kinds: Dry type machine and Wet type machine.

Technological procedure:
Starting Materials → mixing → transferring → extrusion puffing → transferring → drying → cooling → screening → spraying oil →seasoning → packaging
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Equipment configuration
Mixer → transfer unit →fish feed extruder machine→ elevator → dryer → cooler → vibrating screen → elevator → oil spraying machine → automatic packaging machine
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Raw materials of fish feed pellet
1.Feed pellets include animal proteins and vegetable proteins. The plant protein comes from corn, rice, wheat, soybean, peanut cake powder, etc.; animal protein comes from fish meal, shrimp powder, crab powder, fish meal, etc., and other ingredients can be added according to animal requirements and eating habits.
2.Requirements of raw materials :humidity: 20%-25%,material fineness: 60-80 mesh.
3.Mainly involved processes: material grinding, material mixing, particle extrusion, particle drying and particle packaging. The entire fish feed production process can be highly automated.

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Feed crusher→feed mixer→fish feed extruder→spraying machine→feed pellet dryer & cooler→automatic weighing packaging machine, the fish feed extruder is the key-equipment in the fish feed production line.

Fish feed production plant adavantages
1. Wide application: this fish feed line can produce floating and slowly sinking fish feed and pet food, which is applicable to fish farms, fish feed manufacturers and pet food factories.
2. Large capacity range: the capacity range is from 40 kg/h to 4000 kg/h. Whether for personal or commercial use, you can find the right model here at a competitive price.
3. Strict detail control. Equipped with PLC control box and alarm device to ensure smooth and safe operation.
4. Reasonable configuration. Lower energy consumption, smaller footprint in construction projects.
5. Simple assembly and disassembly. It helps with quick shipping and installation.

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Fish feeds which have ingredients such as soybean meal and cereal grains can be made more digestible, and the nutrients are therefore more available. Floating feeds are made using extruders along with highly water-stable, sinking feeds which can be made with [url]fish feed extruder machine[/http://www.victorpelletmill.com/product/price-of-fish-feed-extruder-machine/] as well. In some cases, extruders are used just to prepare feed materials, such as dry extrusion of soybeans. If you are planning to set up a feed pellet plant for manufacturing livestock and poultry feed pellets, poultry feed pellet mahcine is what you need.

The floating fish feed extruder machine is often called fish feed pellet mill or expander. Sometimes, it is also be used as a standalone machine for producing a fish feed product which is fed to the animals directly.Sometimes, it is used as a part machine of fish feed production line. The application field is not limited to the hydrothermal pressure treatment for improving the nutritive value, but the expansion also helps to reduce pathogen germs, inactivate anti-nutritive factors, modify starch, and increase the content of rumen undegraded protein.
During extrusion process of feed pellet machine,The extrusion cooking process, because it causes a high level of gelatinization of starches, results in feeds with good water stability. It can produce "expanded" floating fish feed pellets as well as sinking fish feed pellets. The process also improves the digestibility of the product. (Project: fish feed feed production line http://www.victorpelletmill.com/product/floating-fish-feed-production-line/