I was going on vacation for 10 days, and thought about everything except how to feed my finicky fish while I was gone. My immediate thought was to go down to Walmart and pick up the first cheap fish feeders I saw, the problem is my custom fish tank has a weird rim that doesn't allow for the clip on fish feeder sold there.
After reading several reviews, I decided to go with the Eheim, but was then worried that it wouldn't be delivered before I had to leave. Thankfully Amazon sent this to me with plenty of time to spare. The customizable feeding settings were much more accomodating than I expected. With several ways to attach it to an aqaurium, I was easily able to attach it to mine. And, the double feeding compartments allowed me to maintain their alternating diet with ease.
Still a little worried, I came back from my vacation expecting to see a couple floaters but thankfully I was wrong. Everyone of them are still alive and well, so it goes without saying that if you're as attached to your fish as I am, I would HIGHLY recommend this feeder thank you Amazon.
This feeder is only for large aquariums with lots of fish because the smallest amount of food dumped in the water is great (for about 15 big fish at least !!!!)
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This product does not work well. Its screw mechnism does not push the food very well. I would look at the other Ehiem feeder as that one is better and cheaper.
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I used this to keep my large Oscar, large Plecostomus, and Bichir alive for 3 weeks while I took a trip to Europe. One side had my large Oscar pellets which float, while the other side was filled shrimp pellets which sink. When I got back from my 3 week trip, my fish were still alive and doing well.
The digital display is nice because you can tell it is on and running. Now that I am back from vacation, I only wish it reported if it worked okay. I sometimes have seen error messages indicating a problem and that the screw needed to be cleared. However, I don't know how long those error messages stay there. It would be nice if I could look at the LCD sometime within the hour it activates to see a message that it activated properly. The fish eat the food quickly, so I am left wondering if they got fed okay.
One thing I had to do was cut a plastic cup to form a funnel to make sure the pellets dropped into the aquarium and not spilled outside of it. It would be nice if the item came with some kind of funnel setup that could be cut with scissors to fit most applications. If I could make a funnel tall enough, I would mount this on top of my lighting fixture. The way I have it setup now, the light fixture had to be moved forward on the aquarium top. This keeps me from being able to lift the lid to add food manually without removing the automatic feeder and moving the light fixture back toward the rear.
Also, the device tends to push out a lot of food. I have it on its lowest setting, which is suitable but almost too much food.
In any case, this automatic feeder did what it needed to do while I was on vacation.
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Best feeder I have. Large flakes need to be crushed to facilitate being moved by the "screw". Smaller fish food feeds nicely. I have used one continously for 11 months with no problems.
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This product worked great in my reef tank, I didn't have to remove any of the corals, I didn't have to catch the fish that had worms.
