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Aquaculture Feeding Systems & Automatic Feeders — Buyer's Guide

Feed is 40–70% of OPEX. Feeding systems that dose accurately and adjust to demand cut FCR, waste and disease. Choose against species, pond geometry and labour availability.

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Typical applications

  • Pond automatic feeders (shrimp, tilapia)
  • Centralised blower / pipe feeding for RAS
  • Cage sea-based feeding barges
  • Vision- and acoustic-guided demand feeding

Project sizes

  • Per feeder: $500–$25K
  • Centralised system: $250K–$5M

Selection criteria

  • Dosing accuracy and turndown
  • Corrosion resistance
  • Integration with biomass estimation
  • Serviceability and spares

Questions buyers should ask

  • Guaranteed dosing accuracy at my pellet size?
  • How does it integrate with biomass and DO data?
  • What is MTBF and spare-part policy?

Common procurement mistakes

  • Buying feeders without acoustic or vision feedback in super-intensive shrimp
  • Ignoring hopper capacity vs refill labour

RFQ recommendations

  • Tender against FCR improvement KPI, not feeder count

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