need auto feeder

[MrsBugmaster]

I am going on holidays in a few weeks and and looking for a good auto feeder for my new baby clowns. Can anyone recemmend one the is reliale?

Thanks

[kien]

What do you feed your baby clowns? Flakes and pellets? If so, i can recommend the eheim auto feeder. I use two of them on two tanks and they have been great. I got one for holidays like you, but now they are employed every day to add an extra feeding in the mornings and afternoons while I'm at work. Have not had any issues with them. I've seen them sold at just about every local fish store that I've been to. A couple of concerns that I've read about autofeeders in general is 1. you can accidentally dump in too much food and 2. they can clog due to humidity. Well, neither have been an issue for me. It is vented quite well to prevent humidity clogging and you set the amount of food to dispense and it will never drop more or less (unless it runs out of food of course) than what you set.

edit: If you are going to use one of these auto feeders what I would recommend getting also is a feeding ring. This way you can drop the food into the feeding ring and keep it contained there. Otherwise the food will quickly float into your overflow (assuming you have one).

[banditpowdercoat]

Best Auto Feeder I found fro vacations was the Mother In law. Guaranteed to screw up! Atleast she's consistent LMAO.





Naw, I'm just jokin, she does a good job.

[MrsBugmaster]

While on holidays I will be feeding them just crushed flake and crushed pellets. There are only 3 of them so I want something that won't feed too much at one time. I will check into the eheim. Thanks

[MrsBugmaster]

Originally Posted by banditpowdercoat

Best Auto Feeder I found fro vacations was the Mother In law. Guaranteed to screw up! Atleast she's consistent LMAO.





Naw, I'm just jokin, she does a good job.

i just recently moved here, so unfortunely I don't have any family or close friends to help out.

[Coleus]

I used Rena LG100 Automatic Fish Feeder and it is awesome. The only weird thing i found is how to program it so it can feed my fish with my apex controller. I have to turn it on then off then on again so it can do a full rotation. Otherwise it just set itself to a ready position.

[abcha0s]

Originally Posted by Coleus

I used Rena LG100 Automatic Fish Feeder and it is awesome. The only weird thing i found is how to program it so it can feed my fish with my apex controller. I have to turn it on then off then on again so it can do a full rotation. Otherwise it just set itself to a ready position.

The big drawback with this feeder is that it doesn't allow you to program specific times for feeding. I was hoping that there would be a way to connect this to my Apex controller, as that would solve the programming challange. Can you elaborate on how this works? - Is it as simple as programming the outlet for an on/off/on/off at every feed cycle? - Does the Rena automatically initiate a feed cycle when the power is cycled?

Thanks!!

Brad

[don.ald]

Originally Posted by kien

What do you feed your baby clowns? Flakes and pellets? If so, i can recommend the eheim auto feeder. I use two of them on two tanks and they have been great. I got one for holidays like you, but now they are employed every day to add an extra feeding in the mornings and afternoons while I'm at work. Have not had any issues with them. I've seen them sold at just about every local fish store that I've been to. A couple of concerns that I've read about autofeeders in general is 1. you can accidentally dump in too much food and 2. they can clog due to humidity. Well, neither have been an issue for me. It is vented quite well to prevent humidity clogging and you set the amount of food to dispense and it will never drop more or less (unless it runs out of food of course) than what you set.

edit: If you are going to use one of these auto feeders what I would recommend getting also is a feeding ring. This way you can drop the food into the feeding ring and keep it contained there. Otherwise the food will quickly float into your overflow (assuming you have one).

where can you find the feeding ring? looking for a link?
thanks

[kien]

this is the most common one that I see at virtually every pet store.

http://www.marinedepot.com/NUTRAFIN_...FDFECF-vi.html

I don't use this one myself though. I found one that is more of a square than a ring but same principal (sorry can't find a link for this one). You can also MacGyver something by cutting out a hollow square or ring out of foam.

[don.ald]

MacGyver ??
LOL --- might be showing my age if i admit to knowing this one