Who it's for
Sound familiar?
- Cage farms that have outgrown hand feeding by one or two people
- Farms seeing wide size variation at harvest from irregular feeding
- Operators who want to cut feed waste that adds to the oxygen load under their cages
What you get
What we build and deliver
Feeding on a fixed schedule
The same times every day, including early and late windows that are hard to reach by boat.
Repeatable portions
Portion sizes you set and adjust deliberately as biomass grows, instead of judging by eye each time.
More, smaller feeds
Splitting the daily ration into four or five feeds improves feed conversion and leaves less uneaten feed below the cage.
Works with monitoring
A feeder should stop when fish stop eating. Paired with oxygen monitoring, you know when to override the schedule.
How it works
From first message to handover
- 1
Tell us about your site
A short description of where you are, what you already have and the problem you want solved. No fixed package to pick from.
- 2
Site visit or remote scoping
We size the setup and a starting schedule against your stocking density, fish size and cage layout.
- 3
Install and hand over
A deployment is done when the person on site knows what normal looks like and what to check first if something changes.
From the blog
Read more on this
- Manual vs. Scheduled Feeding on Lake Victoria Cages: What Actually ChangesSwitching a cage farm from hand feeding to a scheduled feeder changes more than labour. Here's what it does to feed conversion, water quality, and the oxygen risk we covered in our last post.
- Why Cage Fish Die Overnight in Winam Gulf, and What Farmers Can Do Before the Next EventOvernight fish kills on Lake Victoria cage farms are usually an oxygen problem, not a disease outbreak. Here's what causes upwelling events in Winam Gulf and how to catch one before it costs you a harvest.
- Tarpaulin Ponds vs. Lake Cages: Choosing How to Farm Fish in Western KenyaLand-based tarpaulin ponds trade the lake's free water flow for control over water quality, biosecurity, and predation. Here's how the tradeoffs actually compare for a Western Kenya farmer.
Moving off hand feeding?
Tell us how many cages you run and how you feed today, and we will walk through what a schedule and setup would look like.
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