Turnkey Floating Fish Feed Production Line for Aquafeed

Production Output	Range from 0.1 to 5 t/h
Power Type	Electric motor
Raw Materials	Corn, wheat, barley, soybean meal, fish meal, meat meal, rice bran, oil cakes, grains and other protein sources.
Type	floating fish feed production line
Final pellet size	0.9-8 mm floating pellets (customized according to fish species and growth stage)
Used For	Floating pellets for catfish, tilapia, carp, trout

Proven Aquafeed Solutions of Fish Feed Production Line

A floating fish feed production line is designed for commercial aquaculture businesses that need to produce stable-quality floating pellets for species such as tilapia, catfish and carp. The complete system covers grinding, mixing, extrusion, drying, cooling and packing, with capacity options from 0.1 to 5 tons per hour.

The system can be configured according to production capacity, feed formulation and target species. From small farm-scale production to commercial aquafeed factories, different extrusion, drying and packing solutions can be provided.

Depending on production capacity and feed requirements, the system can be configured with dry type or wet type extrusion technology to produce floating pellets for different aquatic species.Complete fish feed production line with different capacities are also available to meet customers’ specific demands. This floating fish feed production plant is newly developed to meet the demand of intensive production of fish feed pellets.

It is designed for making commercial pellets from corn, maize, grains, protein, molasses and so on. The production line can be customized according to different feed formulas, pellet sizes and production requirements. The floating fish feed mill plant is widely used as aquatic and pet feed like goldfish, tropical fish, catfish, shrimp, tilapia, dog, cat and etc.

Our fish feed production machinery can produce various kinds of pellets for different varieties of fishes including halibut pellets, catfish pellets, carp pellet, trout pellets, hemp pellets, CSL pellets,etc. It is commonly used in medium and large aquafeed factories that require continuous production and stable pellet quality.

Investment & ROI Analysis of Floating Fish Feed Plant

Investing a floating fish feed production line is an investment in Feed Conversion Ratio (FCR). Although wet type floating fish processing line has higher cost, but it can produce deeper puffed fish feed, properly processed floating pellets can significantly reduce feed loss compared with poorly processed feed because pellets remain stable on the water surface and allow farmers to monitor feeding behavior more easily. The actual return on investment depends on local feed prices, production capacity, raw material costs and market conditions. A properly designed production line can help reduce feed production costs through improved processing efficiency and reduced waste.

How to Choose the Right Fish Feed Production Plant for Your Investment?

Wet Type vs Dry Type Fish Feed Production Line

steps of making floating fish feed pellet

1.crushing raw material —- feed crusher machine

Raw material ingredients should be ground to the required size by feed grinder. Hammer mill, also called wide chamber fine feed hammer Mill, is mainly applied to fine grinding of meals for special aqua feed.

2. mixing — feed mixer machine

Mixing the material thoroughly can ensure extruding efficiency and improve the feed quality. The feed mixer can be customized with atomizing spraying system which will add liquid like molasses and grease to material more evenly.

3. extruding — floating pellet making machine

Our fish feed extruder machine can be divided into two types: dry type and wet type. The wet type is with the conditioner and need to equip the steam boiler. The dry type floating fish feed production line is cheaper while the capacity of the wet type processing plant is higher, so usually the wet type equipment is suitable for large feed pellet factory and the dry type is better and economic for the small and medium size user or factory.

4. drying final pellets — feed pellet dryer 

Our mesh belt dryer is a continuous convective belt dryer. Pellets formed through the extruder are stacked in layers on a wire mesh or perforated plate belt conveyor and conveyed continuously through drying chambers. During this process, the drying air is passed repeatedly through the products layer until pellets have the optimum moisture content before leaving the dryer. While if you choose wet type fish feed machine, we recommend the gas type pellet dryer.

5. cooling final pellets — feed pellet cooler

The finished pellets are still hot at high temperature and soft when they come out from the dryer and the oil-spraying equipment, so they are easy to be broken at this time. The cooler system can reduce rapidly their temperature to harden them, and prevent them from caking and crumbling. To avoid loss in this regard, the feed pellets must be cooled, and are consequently hardened. The cooling type adopted by most fish pellet plants is the counter flow cooler where the fish feed pellets are in opposite direction to the air cooling them.

6. packing final pellets — automatic packing machine

To make the finished pellets easy to store, transport, they should be packed properly. With our electronic weighing and packing machine, the finished pellets can be packed into bags, weighed, conveyed, and sealed automatically, which saves labor and time greatly and meet the requirements of large scale production. For this packing machine, automatic thermal date coder, automatic bag sewing and automatic thread cutting can be optional functions.

Requirement of Raw Materials For Floating Fish Feed Mill Plant

Equipment In Floating Fish Feed Production Line

The following configuration is an example of a 1-2 t/h floating fish feed production line. The equipment list can be adjusted according to capacity, raw materials and factory layout.

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