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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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