Recommend an Automatic Fish Feeder for a tropical aquarium please

[elsiegee40]

We need to get one... or two.

 

Ideally we want to feed a pinch of flake daily and a small pinch of pellets for the bottom feeders twice a day (or once if the pinch works out too big)

 

Mr gee40 got an Eheim twin feeder, but the portion sizes are big enough for about a week in one go. Which kind of defeats the object.

 

Does anyone have one they'd recommend?

Edited August 1, 2017 by elsiegee40

[Bedders]

We use a Juwel AutoFeeder (they're my boss's fish that I just maintain). It can feed once every 24 hours, or in addition 6 hours after the first feed twice a day (so 10am and 4pm every day). Feed size is adjustable (but requires very delicate handling: one notch is a monumental difference in dispensed food). We apparently used to have flakes in it, but they got stuck and didn't dispense properly. Now we give them these pellets which dispense much better.

 

We have some Cardinal Tetras and Denison's Barbs.

[jmak]

Just hold back on the cleaning for a month before you go away and there's usually plenty of %stuff% in the tank to last them a couple of weeks...

 

I'm not completely joking - we don't bother unless going on a world tour and we've only had casualties twice and they were both due to failure of heating, not lack of food.