Rena 707 LG100 Automatic Fish Feeder

It could be better; however, all things considered one of the better ones available. I see that Rena does not list this on their website. Maybe it's not a product they are particularly proud of. The best feeder I have found is the Food Timer by YINSHENG which is not available on Amazon or anywhere else online that I have been able to find. This Rena feeder has one main advantage to that one in that it holds about 3 times as much food. However, it costs almost 3 times as much, too.

Pros:

1. Holds more food than any other practical feeder that I have seen on the market.

2. It warms the food to help keep it dry. This seems like a better system than the Eheim Feed-Air which I understand is supposed to blow a current of air through the food. (The Feed-Air I got seems defective in this way.)

3. Very simple to program, 1 to maybe 6 button presses maximum. Program it once and you'll never read the instructions again. This is partly made possible by the light sensing feature, so that it will only feed when there is light, a fair bit of light I might add.

4. Good mounting solutions.

5. Comes with a power adapter, but there is no option to use batteries, and this generates a couple of cons. Note that it would not be possible to warm the food using batteries.

Cons:

1. It loses it's programing and defaults to feeding once every 12 hours with any power outage, no mater how brief. It most likely only feed once every 24 hours if it was set not to feed at night. This could result in some very hungry fish if your away for a couple of weeks depending on the fish you keep.

2. If using more than one feeder on a large tank both feeders will start dumping food at the same time after a power outage, i.e. 12 hours after the outage.

3. It's loud, loud enough for long enough that you would not be able to hear if you were on a phone call in the same room.

4. The power adapter supplied is 110v only. Plug it into 220v by accident and your buying another adapter. Not a problem in North America, but it is in many other counties.

Conclusion: I'll try to find something better before I buy another one.

I am very happy I bought this item, not only has it taken the stress of worrying if the fish have been fed or not, it also has decreased their agressiveness. I assume because now they are on a very strict schedule with the automatic feeder. It also works great with their pellets and flakes.

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Had it for over a month now and it works just fine. No batteries,programable and it doesn't clog. I have it mounted to the top of the filter cover (it' a bit large). The whole drum rotates and you can hear it when it's feeding time.

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Well this is not design for a Aquarium with a top lid. The tape strips does not support the weight of the feeder. It is difficult to set the amount of feeding to be consistent. Since it is on top of the aquarium it tends to get wet just from the water evaporation. At this price I would had expected something better. Check the reviews outside of Amazon before you buy.

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I got this one about a year ago and it worked great for the longest time.

There was a lot of complaint that the feeder had no battery backup and it would reset if there was a power outage so I simply hooked it up to a battery backup and that solved that problem. I lived in Florida at the time and the lightning storms in the summer gave us plenty of power outages (10 seconds would reset it)

However recently it started turning off randomly, it appears there is a loose connection somewhere that makes it flicker sometimes. When this happen then it will either reset to feed every 12 hours, a couple of times it just stay off and there it happened twice that it just kept spinning till it had emptied all the food out in the aquarium.

If using it I'd recommend checking it very often and replace it as soon as it is starting to fail, having no food or suddenly weeks worth of food dumped into the aquarium will not help your fish. I got this one as I travel a lot and didn't want to rely on having anyone constantly coming to feed my fish.

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