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Aquatic 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. To facilitate the implementation of a zebrafish colony in any laboratory, we developed an open-source fully automatic daily feeding system. We named our system ZAF for Zebrafish Automatic Feeder. 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. Here we provide all of the instructions to build the two automatic feeding systems, from the hardware and a friendly user interface to the open-source python code. Importantly, the design is modular and can be scaled depending on user needs. Furthermore, our results confirm that ZAF and ZAF+ do not adversely affect zebrafish culture, enabling fully automatic feeding for any aquatic facility.\n\n![ZAF+](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1870994/115090362-857b5680-9ec9-11eb-9445-9378e0e6fe54.png)\n\n\n\nThis repository contains:\n\n1. A detailed [wiki](https://github.com/royerlab/ZAF/wiki) with all instructions to build and operate a ZAF system\n2. The software needed for automated fish feeding system of our fish facility.\n\nIn the following we provide instructions on how to install the ZAF software on a Raspberry Pi 3 system\n\n## How to install and use?\n\n```bash\n# Install dependencies\nsudo apt install python3-pyqt5\npython3 -m pip install python-crontab==2.5.1 arbol==2020.11.6\n\n# Get ZAF+ software\nmkdir -p ~/Dev/prod/zaf_data\ncd Dev/prod/\ngit clone https://github.com/royerlab/zaf.git\ncd zaf\n\n# Start the ZAF+ software\npython3 -m python.gui.gui\n\n# Run the ZAF software\npython -m python.zaf.cli run\n```\n\n## How to cite this work?\n\n[*ZAF -- an open source fully automated feeder for aquatic facilities.*](https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.04.28.441879)\nMerlin Lange, Ahmet Can Solak, Shruthi Vijaykumar, Hirofumi Kobayashi,  Bin Yang, \u0026 Loic A. 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