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ZAF, the first open source fully automated feeder for aquatic facilities
In the past few decades, aquatic animals have become popular model organisms in biology, spurring a growing need for establishing aquatic facilities. Zebrafish are widely studied and relatively easy to culture using commercial systems. However, a challenging aspect of maintaining aquatic facilities...
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eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd
2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8776251/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34882088 http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.74234 |
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author | Lange, Merlin Solak, AhmetCan Vijay Kumar, Shruthi Kobayashi, Hirofumi Yang, Bin Royer, Loïc Alain |
author_facet | Lange, Merlin Solak, AhmetCan Vijay Kumar, Shruthi Kobayashi, Hirofumi Yang, Bin Royer, Loïc Alain |
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description | In the past few decades, aquatic animals have become popular model organisms in biology, spurring a growing need for establishing aquatic facilities. Zebrafish are widely studied and relatively easy to culture using commercial systems. However, a challenging aspect of maintaining aquatic facilities is animal feeding, which is both time- and resource-consuming. We have developed an open-source fully automatic daily feeding system, Zebrafish Automatic Feeder (ZAF). ZAF is reliable, provides a standardized amount of food to every tank, is cost-efficient and easy to build. The advanced version, ZAF+, allows for the precise control of food distribution as a function of fish density per tank, and has a user-friendly interface. Both ZAF and ZAF+ are adaptable to any laboratory environment and facilitate the implementation of aquatic colonies. Here, we provide all blueprints and instructions for building the mechanics, electronics, fluidics, as well as to setup the control software and its user-friendly graphical interface. Importantly, the design is modular and can be scaled to meet different user needs. Furthermore, our results show that ZAF and ZAF+ do not adversely affect zebrafish culture, enabling fully automatic feeding for any aquatic facility. |
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spelling | pubmed-87762512022-01-21 ZAF, the first open source fully automated feeder for aquatic facilities Lange, Merlin Solak, AhmetCan Vijay Kumar, Shruthi Kobayashi, Hirofumi Yang, Bin Royer, Loïc Alain eLife Developmental Biology In the past few decades, aquatic animals have become popular model organisms in biology, spurring a growing need for establishing aquatic facilities. Zebrafish are widely studied and relatively easy to culture using commercial systems. However, a challenging aspect of maintaining aquatic facilities is animal feeding, which is both time- and resource-consuming. We have developed an open-source fully automatic daily feeding system, Zebrafish Automatic Feeder (ZAF). ZAF is reliable, provides a standardized amount of food to every tank, is cost-efficient and easy to build. The advanced version, ZAF+, allows for the precise control of food distribution as a function of fish density per tank, and has a user-friendly interface. Both ZAF and ZAF+ are adaptable to any laboratory environment and facilitate the implementation of aquatic colonies. Here, we provide all blueprints and instructions for building the mechanics, electronics, fluidics, as well as to setup the control software and its user-friendly graphical interface. Importantly, the design is modular and can be scaled to meet different user needs. Furthermore, our results show that ZAF and ZAF+ do not adversely affect zebrafish culture, enabling fully automatic feeding for any aquatic facility. eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 2021-12-09 /pmc/articles/PMC8776251/ /pubmed/34882088 http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.74234 Text en © 2021, Lange et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Developmental Biology Lange, Merlin Solak, AhmetCan Vijay Kumar, Shruthi Kobayashi, Hirofumi Yang, Bin Royer, Loïc Alain ZAF, the first open source fully automated feeder for aquatic facilities |
title | ZAF, the first open source fully automated feeder for aquatic facilities |
title_full | ZAF, the first open source fully automated feeder for aquatic facilities |
title_fullStr | ZAF, the first open source fully automated feeder for aquatic facilities |
title_full_unstemmed | ZAF, the first open source fully automated feeder for aquatic facilities |
title_short | ZAF, the first open source fully automated feeder for aquatic facilities |
title_sort | zaf, the first open source fully automated feeder for aquatic facilities |
topic | Developmental Biology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8776251/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34882088 http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.74234 |
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