floating fish feeds vs sinking feed pellets
Generally there is no nutritional difference between floating and sinking feed.
Advantages of floating feed
• High Nutrition Retention
• Environment-friendly
• Easy to Store
• Best for a Young Fish Breed
• Monitoring the fish
Advantages of sinking feed
• Better for fish who likes to live in bottom level of water.
• Great for sky or pavid fish that are scared to get close to the surface of water.
• Terrific for fast-moving stream.
Also Read: Floating and Sinking Fish Feed Pellets for fish Farming
Floating fish pellets feed is a little expensive to buy and slightly expensive for feed millers to manufacture. Floating fish pellets feed (also known as expanded or extruded pellets) requires to go through an extrusion process during processing. This section of a feed mill is most of the time costly to set-up and run than a standard pelleting section.
Floating fish pellets feed is widely used in larger underlings, food fish and brood fish. Floating on the surface of the water (usually maintaining integrity in the water for 12-18 hours), the fish must come up to the surface to eat. This enables you to observe your fish each day, which helps in monitoring their health and vigor. Also you can adjust the amount of feed per day and avoid wasted feed and pond pollution problems; Floating fish pellets feed is still preferred in the world wide, for Floating fish pellets feed can increase the feed efficiency, for all the ingredients were processing cooked.
Sinking fish pellets feed also know as a hard pellet. Sinking fish pellet feed will have water stability of less than an hour, and will gradually sink and settle on the bottom if uneaten, which will cause water pollution in long run.
Since ingredients are pressed together it makes it impossible for the fish to selectively eat the ingredients they want. Sinking fish pellets feed is sometimes used in winter when the fish do not regularly surface.
Different fish feeds are suitable for different kinds of fishes. For making floating fish feed, Fish Feed Making Machine manufactured by Sunwit adopts auto-temperature controlling system which making it more precise and viewable to control the temperature. Fish food made by this pellet extruder is of puffing type more easily to digest for fishes.The fish feed pellet size can be from 0.9-10mm to feed different sizes of fishes.The puffing fish feed pellets can float on the water surface without dissolution for over 12 hours.
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