Atomatic Feeders

[SeaHorsie*03]

Does anyone know of an automatic fish feeder that can feed frozen food?

 

[TitusvileSurfer]

I bought one but used it to feed me beer on 2nd thought.

 

[frederickk]

anyone?

 

[SeaHorsie*03]

 

[USC-fan]

never heard of one that does frozen. What are you trying to feed?

 

[edwar050]

I have two from wal-mart though one crapped out after a year. I think they work pretty well. I feed flake and pellet from them twice a day in very very small portions and hand feed twice to three times a week. I would think three of these would be pretty nice for fish like anthias.

 

[sabbath]

How would it keep it frozen?

 

[dodgersfan25]

yeah, the only way is if you had a fridge or something to keep it frozen?

 

[elzool]

What if you had a food mix that was thawed in a refrigerator that had tubes inside the fridge tied to a dosing pump?

Then use a controller to assign logic to some solenoids to flush the feeding line out with ro/di after feeding.

I think I know my project for the winter now...
This might only be useful for extremely fine food mixes though.. great for coral, but nothing large and chunky I would think... at least using 1/4" tubing anyway.

I'd use a controller.
4:30pm Open the fishfood solenoid
Start the dosing pump
Run the pump for 2 minutes( or however long you have premeasured the time it takes to feed the right amount)
Stop Pump
Close Fishfood solenoid
Open RO/DI solenoid
Start Dosing Pump again to flush water through the lines long enough to clear food out of unrefrigerated line so food doesn't sit at room temperature and spoil.
Stop Dosing Pump
Close ro/di solenoid.

Seems easy enough... this only just came to me so I'm probably missing all the previous posts here on RC as to why this won't work.

 

[sabbath]

Interesting. I am subscribing in hopes of some good info here. This thought has always intrigued me.

 

[IslandCrow]

I truly doubt they sell such a feeder. Obviously, it would have to keep the food frozen, and that just wouldn't be practical for an all-in-one unit. That little schematic elzool posted is certainly interesting, and I think something like that is about your only hope. Truthfully, automating something to feed live food may actually be simpler. Do you just have picky eaters who won't eat flake or pellet food?

 

[virginiadiver69]

I came across one a while back at drs f&s. I have not tried it yet but may in the future.
Oh...it's called a "frozen food feeder"

 

[elzool]

The DFS item is nice for placing your food out every day, but it really doesn't seem automatic.