Different Size of Floating Fish Food Pellets
There are two kinds of fish feed pellets: Floating Pellets and Sinking Pellets. And we recommend to buy or make floating fish food pellets for fish, catfish, shrimps and crabs due to its outstanding advantages:
- The feed pellets are floating on water, which can make it easy for people to observe the feeding condition of the fish and is convenient to adjust the feeding amount in line with the feeding condition. Besides, the growth and health of fish are also known according to the feeding condition.
- The puffed floating fish feed, due to the physical and chemical changes in the extruding process, generally produces less than 1% of the powder, which directly improves feed utilization. Compared with powder of flour feed or other pellet feed, the puffed floating fish feed can save 5%-10% during the fish culture.
- The puffed floating fish feed is environmentally-friendly. Because the fish feed can float on water for about 24 hours, it is easy to observe and control the feeding amount.
But, how to make the floating fish food pellets? What equipment is needed to make high quality fish feed pellets? How much it would cost to get a complete set of floating fish feed production machine? Either you have small fish pound or large scale fish farm, you may have a lot of questions about floating fish food pellet making. As one of the largest animal feed mill machine manufacturers, GEMCO can help to solve all your worries about fish feed pellet production, both for commerical or household use. (Read more: Poultry Feed Manufacturing Plant Cost >>)
Floating Fish Food Pellets Manufacturing Process & Machines
Making floating fish feed pellets has six steps: crushing, mixing, extruding, drying, cooling, and packing. The following is a detailed description.
Floating Fish Food Pellet Manufacturing Machines and Process
- Step 1: Crushing Raw Materials
A feed crusher machine is needed for this step. Raw materials should be pulverized to the desired size by the feed crusher machine. Hammer mill, specifically speaking, the wide chamber fine feed hammer mill, is quite suitable for aquatic special feed coarse powder fine grinding.
- Step 2: Mixing Raw Materials
A feed mixer machine is needed for this step. For extruding efficiency and improving the feed quality, it is necessary to mix the raw materials thoroughly. And users can add liquid like molasses and grease more evenly into the raw material by the atomizing spraying system which is customized in the feed mixer machine.
- Step 3: Extruding Raw Materials
A floating fish food extruder machine is needed for this step. There are two kinds of fish feed pellet extruders: dry type wet type. The wet one is equipped with the conditioner and should be added to the steam boiler. The dry-type fish feed production line is cheaper than the wet one, but the capacity of it is lower than the wet one. So, generally speaking, for large-scale feed pellet factories, the wet type fish feed extruder is befitting; for small or medium floating fish food production line, the dry type extruder machineis economical and suitable. (Read more: Small Pellet Machine Price >>)
Fish Food Pellet Making Machine for Sales (Capacity: 0.03~0.6TPH)
- Step 4: Drying Final Fish Food Pellets
A feed pellet dryer is needed for this step. The mesh belt dryer is a continuous convective belt dryer. After passing the extruder, the pellets are formed and stacked in layers on wire mesh or a perforated plate belt conveyor, then they will be continuously conveyed through the drying chamber. The pellets passing through the extruder are stacked in layers on wire mesh or perforated plate belt conveyor and continuously conveyed through the drying chamber. During this process, drying air will repeatedly flow through the material layer until the pellets reach the best moisture content then the pellets will leave the dryer. But if the fish feed pellet-making machine is wet type, the gas type pellet dryer is recommended.
- Step 5: Cooling Final Fish Food Pellets
A feed pellet cooler is needed for this step. When the temperature of the pellets whose surface is sprayed with oil and grease increases, the pellets will become soft and easy to be broken. To avoid loss due to this reason, the feed pellets must be cooled and hardened. The cooling method which is adopted by most fish feed pellet plants is using the counter flow cooler in which the fish feed pellets are moving in the opposite direction to the cooling air.
- Step 6: Packing Final Floating Fish Food Pellets
An automatic packing machine is needed for this step. The final pellet had better be packed properly for storing, transporting, and selling.
Above is the detailed floating fish feed pellet production process, which involves crusher, mixer, extruder, dryer, cooler, packaging machine and etc., which are generally needed to set up a complete fish feed pellet mill factory for commercial purpose. If you just make the floating fish feed for your own use, some of the equipment is unnecessary, like the packagin machine. Then, you can save some money for other uses.
Working Video of Floating Fish Feed Extruder Machine
Fish feed food pellet machines provided by GEMCO have won great popularities among farmers and business investors. In these years, our equipment has been exported to South Africa, Nigeria, Zambia, Ghana, Chile, Philippines, Australia and etc. With different capacities and designs, the price of final fish food pellet production may varies a lot. If you are interested in buying, just contact us to get the latest quotation. And, if there are any questions during your fish food pellet manufacturing process, you can also contact us for technical guidance for your business.