Automatic feeder

edikpok · #1 07-19-2009, 03:46 AM

I am going away for 2 weeks. A friend of mine agreed to drop by every 2 days to feed my 29g biocube reef tank with some frozen food. I was thinking about making an automatic feeder with live brine shrimps to feed the fish. Any ideas how to make one? or are they available commercially? or maybe someone here has one I could borrow or buy?

Thanks!

sharuq1 · #2 07-19-2009, 03:48 AM

You can buy them at Petland and J&L.

http://www.jlaquatics.com/phpstore/s..._ID=fd-tbsfeed

edikpok · #3 07-19-2009, 05:45 AM

has anyone used it before? is it realiable? how often should it be refilled with eggs?

RuGlu6 · #4 07-19-2009, 05:57 AM

this is NOT reliable, and will polute your water.
I'd rather feed less then to use this thing.
Your tank will be fine with less live food for two weeks, just make sure your tank sitter understands how feeding is different from OVERfeeding.

edikpok · #5 07-19-2009, 06:05 AM

Yeah I was afraid of the polution...especially ammonia from the hatched eggs.

The tank sitter is fine - he has 3 aquariums himself to take care of :-) I will also prepare food portions for him to simplify his life...

Just out of curiousty - how long can these fish go WITHOUT food at all:

Royal Gramma
Clowfish
Green chromis
6line wrasse
firefish
2 cleaner shrimps

edikpok · #6 07-21-2009, 02:06 AM

anyone?