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ZAF is named for Zebrafish Automatic Feeding, it is an easy to build robot for the feeding of your fish facility without any supervision. ZAF is open access and build with commercially available products.
The main limitation of ZAF is the precise control of the amount of food. ZAF distributes in an homogenise way a certain amount of food to all the tank connected to ZAF. If you have in one tank 12 fish and in another 6, with ZAF they will receive the same amount of food. Since it is calibrated we stay in a decent amount of food and it has been observed that manual feeding is also not very reliable in term of quantity. Anyway to overcome the issue we designed ZAF-Next, a module that will allow you to control the food quantity delivered in each tank!
After ZAF is you feel adventurous we strongly recommend you to build ZAF-Next, a slightly more complex robot to build.
You will find the details protocol to build your own ZAF and ZAF-Next. They are charing some common part, indeed we designed ZAF-Next to be a plugin for ZAF. Thus, even though we present two independents manual for both of them, they share some common modules like the food mixing and the pumps.
The manuals for ZAF and ZAF-Next are divided in three main part
- The hardware
- The electronics
- ZAF control software 
