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AquaChef Automatic Aquarium Fish Feeder 3 in x 5 1 4 in x 3 in

Going out of town? Don’t rely on out-of-date feeding blocks when you can use the AquaChef. It’s easy to give your fish up to eight feedings a day of flake, pellet, or crumbled food. Schedule single feedings for up to four different times, use the double-feeding feature to make any of those four two feedings, sixty seconds apart, or manually override the settings if you decide to give one more feeding yourself. The AquaChef also has an adjustable hatch to control the amount of food fed and to serve as a mixing stir bar to make sure the food isn’t clumped, just like you would. The moisture-resistant hopper is easy to clean and fill. Why let your fish starve when they can have their very own AquaChef?

User Ratings and Reviews

2 Stars AquaChef Auto Feeder
The feeder is easy to assemble and works great. Timer and readout are clear and quick to set up. The only negative thing about this product is the design of the clamp. It didn’t fit on the aquarium edge (it has to be forced on, if you want the clamp to work, but mine did not) and the foam sticky pads were not secure and could not hold the weight on to the light panel top, so it fell in the water! Too bad, otherwise a good product. I bought another timer from a retail store and that timer uses a better screw on clamp (it fits snugly and easily mounts on the edge) but it’s not a digital readout and the timer is not adjustable, but it works.

4 Stars Great feeder… just too much food
I bought this to feed 2 zebrafish in a smaller tank. It was easy to fill, program, and works great. The only problem is the lowest setting for dispensing food is WAY to much for a smaller tank.

4 Stars Works well
I am pretty amazed that it works very well. The wheel turns 360 degrees to release the food, and the adjust door works just fine. Though two (minor) complaints:

1 There’s no way to feed two kinds of food.

My daughter has 4 turtles live in the same tank as some tropical fishes, they eat

different kind of food and food are of different size. The adjust door works for only

one. I wish it has two compartments and can distribute two different size of food

2 The whole thing is a little bit bulky, I can’t install it on the back of my tank,

have to put it in the front and leave the lid open.

Otherwise it does its job very well.

4 Stars Auto fish feeder
I have two of these and I use them every time I have to leave town and they are very convenient. I have two 60 gallon tanks, one community and one cichlids and they handle the different amount of foods well.

4 Stars Why pay $45 for an Ehiem?
This is a very well designed and reliable feeder that has only a few design flaws. With a bit of wear, the battery cover pops off easily resulting in the batteries falling out and the feeder programming getting lost. To prevent this I simply added a bit of tape The mounting bracket is also pretty useless unless you have a rimless tank with less than 1/2″ glass, but velcro or double sided tape works just as well for mounting. The feeding is also pretty dependent on how full the hopper is if you use flake food. To get more consistent feeding amounts, I would recommend using pellet food. The battery powered operation is also kind of a problem IMO, but you can fix that easily by simply replacing the batteries with NiCad rechargeables and wiring in a 3V solar cell in parallel (edit - MAKE SURE YOU USE A DIODE!)(I don’t see why feeders aren’t solar powered yet - they’re low power machines in high light enviornments and it would only be like a 20 cent increase in manufacturing cost… maybe this will be common in a few years?). The only other problem I can think of is that it’s kind of bulky, but that problem probably seems amplified to me considering I’m running it on a 2.5 gallon nano. With these few modifications, you’ll get a feeder that’s more reliable than an Ehiem with a larger food capacity for half the price. Enjoy!

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Technorati Tags: Aquarium Fish, Auto Feeder, Automatic Feeder, Clamp, Different Times, Digital Readout, Digital Timer, Fish Feeder, Flake, Hatch, Hopper, Kinds Of Food, Minor Complaints, Retail Store, Screw, Sixty Seconds, Sticky Pads, Timer, Turtles, Two Kinds, Zebrafish

AquaChef Automatic Aquarium Fish Feeder 3 in x 5 1 4 in x 3 in

Going out of town? Don’t rely on out-of-date feeding blocks when you can use the AquaChef. It’s easy to give your fish up to eight feedings a day of flake, pellet, or crumbled food. Schedule single feedings for up to four different times, use the double-feeding feature to make any of those four two feedings, sixty seconds apart, or manually override the settings if you decide to give one more feeding yourself. The AquaChef also has an adjustable hatch to control the amount of food fed and to serve as a mixing stir bar to make sure the food isn’t clumped, just like you would. The moisture-resistant hopper is easy to clean and fill. Why let your fish starve when they can have their very own AquaChef?

User Ratings and Reviews

4 Stars Why pay $45 for an Ehiem?
This is a very well designed and reliable feeder that has only a few design flaws. With a bit of wear, the battery cover pops off easily resulting in the batteries falling out and the feeder programming getting lost. To prevent this I simply added a bit of tape The mounting bracket is also pretty useless unless you have a rimless tank with less than 1/2″ glass, but velcro or double sided tape works just as well for mounting. The feeding is also pretty dependent on how full the hopper is if you use flake food. To get more consistent feeding amounts, I would recommend using pellet food. The battery powered operation is also kind of a problem IMO, but you can fix that easily by simply replacing the batteries with NiCad rechargeables and wiring in a 3V solar cell in parallel (edit - MAKE SURE YOU USE A DIODE!)(I don’t see why feeders aren’t solar powered yet - they’re low power machines in high light enviornments and it would only be like a 20 cent increase in manufacturing cost… maybe this will be common in a few years?). The only other problem I can think of is that it’s kind of bulky, but that problem probably seems amplified to me considering I’m running it on a 2.5 gallon nano. With these few modifications, you’ll get a feeder that’s more reliable than an Ehiem with a larger food capacity for half the price. Enjoy!

4 Stars Auto fish feeder
I have two of these and I use them every time I have to leave town and they are very convenient. I have two 60 gallon tanks, one community and one cichlids and they handle the different amount of foods well.

2 Stars AquaChef Auto Feeder
The feeder is easy to assemble and works great. Timer and readout are clear and quick to set up. The only negative thing about this product is the design of the clamp. It didn’t fit on the aquarium edge (it has to be forced on, if you want the clamp to work, but mine did not) and the foam sticky pads were not secure and could not hold the weight on to the light panel top, so it fell in the water! Too bad, otherwise a good product. I bought another timer from a retail store and that timer uses a better screw on clamp (it fits snugly and easily mounts on the edge) but it’s not a digital readout and the timer is not adjustable, but it works.

4 Stars Works well
I am pretty amazed that it works very well. The wheel turns 360 degrees to release the food, and the adjust door works just fine. Though two (minor) complaints:

1 There’s no way to feed two kinds of food.

My daughter has 4 turtles live in the same tank as some tropical fishes, they eat

different kind of food and food are of different size. The adjust door works for only

one. I wish it has two compartments and can distribute two different size of food

2 The whole thing is a little bit bulky, I can’t install it on the back of my tank,

have to put it in the front and leave the lid open.

Otherwise it does its job very well.

4 Stars Great feeder… just too much food
I bought this to feed 2 zebrafish in a smaller tank. It was easy to fill, program, and works great. The only problem is the lowest setting for dispensing food is WAY to much for a smaller tank.

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Technorati Tags: Aquarium Fish, Automatic Feeder, Batteries, Batteries Rechargeables, Design Flaws, Different Times, Diode, Double Sided Tape, Ehiem, Fish Feeder, Flake Food, Hatch, Hopper, Imo, Lost, Mounting Bracket, Sixty Seconds, Solar Cell, Tank, Velcro, Velcro Tape

AquaChef Automatic Aquarium Fish Feeder 3 in x 5 1 4 in x 3 in

Going out of town? Don’t rely on out-of-date feeding blocks when you can use the AquaChef. It’s easy to give your fish up to eight feedings a day of flake, pellet, or crumbled food. Schedule single feedings for up to four different times, use the double-feeding feature to make any of those four two feedings, sixty seconds apart, or manually override the settings if you decide to give one more feeding yourself. The AquaChef also has an adjustable hatch to control the amount of food fed and to serve as a mixing stir bar to make sure the food isn’t clumped, just like you would. The moisture-resistant hopper is easy to clean and fill. Why let your fish starve when they can have their very own AquaChef?

User Ratings and Reviews

4 Stars Great feeder… just too much food
I bought this to feed 2 zebrafish in a smaller tank. It was easy to fill, program, and works great. The only problem is the lowest setting for dispensing food is WAY to much for a smaller tank.

4 Stars Auto fish feeder
I have two of these and I use them every time I have to leave town and they are very convenient. I have two 60 gallon tanks, one community and one cichlids and they handle the different amount of foods well.

4 Stars Works well
I am pretty amazed that it works very well. The wheel turns 360 degrees to release the food, and the adjust door works just fine. Though two (minor) complaints:

1 There’s no way to feed two kinds of food.

My daughter has 4 turtles live in the same tank as some tropical fishes, they eat

different kind of food and food are of different size. The adjust door works for only

one. I wish it has two compartments and can distribute two different size of food

2 The whole thing is a little bit bulky, I can’t install it on the back of my tank,

have to put it in the front and leave the lid open.

Otherwise it does its job very well.

4 Stars Why pay $45 for an Ehiem?
This is a very well designed and reliable feeder that has only a few design flaws. With a bit of wear, the battery cover pops off easily resulting in the batteries falling out and the feeder programming getting lost. To prevent this I simply added a bit of tape The mounting bracket is also pretty useless unless you have a rimless tank with less than 1/2″ glass, but velcro or double sided tape works just as well for mounting. The feeding is also pretty dependent on how full the hopper is if you use flake food. To get more consistent feeding amounts, I would recommend using pellet food. The battery powered operation is also kind of a problem IMO, but you can fix that easily by simply replacing the batteries with NiCad rechargeables and wiring in a 3V solar cell in parallel (edit - MAKE SURE YOU USE A DIODE!)(I don’t see why feeders aren’t solar powered yet - they’re low power machines in high light enviornments and it would only be like a 20 cent increase in manufacturing cost… maybe this will be common in a few years?). The only other problem I can think of is that it’s kind of bulky, but that problem probably seems amplified to me considering I’m running it on a 2.5 gallon nano. With these few modifications, you’ll get a feeder that’s more reliable than an Ehiem with a larger food capacity for half the price. Enjoy!

2 Stars AquaChef Auto Feeder
The feeder is easy to assemble and works great. Timer and readout are clear and quick to set up. The only negative thing about this product is the design of the clamp. It didn’t fit on the aquarium edge (it has to be forced on, if you want the clamp to work, but mine did not) and the foam sticky pads were not secure and could not hold the weight on to the light panel top, so it fell in the water! Too bad, otherwise a good product. I bought another timer from a retail store and that timer uses a better screw on clamp (it fits snugly and easily mounts on the edge) but it’s not a digital readout and the timer is not adjustable, but it works.

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Technorati Tags: Aquarium Fish, Auto Fish Feeder, Automatic Feeder, Cichlids, Different Times, Ehiem, Flake, Gallon Tanks, Hatch, Hopper, Kinds Of Food, Little Bit, Minor Complaints, Sixty Seconds, Stars Auto, Tropical Fishes, Turtles, Two Kinds, Wheel, Zebrafish

AquaChef Automatic Aquarium Fish Feeder 3 in x 5 1 4 in x 3 in

Going out of town? Don’t rely on out-of-date feeding blocks when you can use the AquaChef. It’s easy to give your fish up to eight feedings a day of flake, pellet, or crumbled food. Schedule single feedings for up to four different times, use the double-feeding feature to make any of those four two feedings, sixty seconds apart, or manually override the settings if you decide to give one more feeding yourself. The AquaChef also has an adjustable hatch to control the amount of food fed and to serve as a mixing stir bar to make sure the food isn’t clumped, just like you would. The moisture-resistant hopper is easy to clean and fill. Why let your fish starve when they can have their very own AquaChef?

User Ratings and Reviews

4 Stars Auto fish feeder
I have two of these and I use them every time I have to leave town and they are very convenient. I have two 60 gallon tanks, one community and one cichlids and they handle the different amount of foods well.

4 Stars Why pay $45 for an Ehiem?
This is a very well designed and reliable feeder that has only a few design flaws. With a bit of wear, the battery cover pops off easily resulting in the batteries falling out and the feeder programming getting lost. To prevent this I simply added a bit of tape The mounting bracket is also pretty useless unless you have a rimless tank with less than 1/2″ glass, but velcro or double sided tape works just as well for mounting. The feeding is also pretty dependent on how full the hopper is if you use flake food. To get more consistent feeding amounts, I would recommend using pellet food. The battery powered operation is also kind of a problem IMO, but you can fix that easily by simply replacing the batteries with NiCad rechargeables and wiring in a 3V solar cell in parallel (edit - MAKE SURE YOU USE A DIODE!)(I don’t see why feeders aren’t solar powered yet - they’re low power machines in high light enviornments and it would only be like a 20 cent increase in manufacturing cost… maybe this will be common in a few years?). The only other problem I can think of is that it’s kind of bulky, but that problem probably seems amplified to me considering I’m running it on a 2.5 gallon nano. With these few modifications, you’ll get a feeder that’s more reliable than an Ehiem with a larger food capacity for half the price. Enjoy!

2 Stars AquaChef Auto Feeder
The feeder is easy to assemble and works great. Timer and readout are clear and quick to set up. The only negative thing about this product is the design of the clamp. It didn’t fit on the aquarium edge (it has to be forced on, if you want the clamp to work, but mine did not) and the foam sticky pads were not secure and could not hold the weight on to the light panel top, so it fell in the water! Too bad, otherwise a good product. I bought another timer from a retail store and that timer uses a better screw on clamp (it fits snugly and easily mounts on the edge) but it’s not a digital readout and the timer is not adjustable, but it works.

5 Stars great automatic feeder
Price and quality make this a great automatic feeder. Setting up the timer took longer than expected (you must read the manual carefully) but other than that this is the best automatic feeder I have used.

1 Star absolutly horrible
wow, what a terrible product!!!!!! i used this product for less than two weeks and threw it away! filling the feed tank is a chore in itself and there is no way to clean it out. the feed tank is a horrible design and any sort of humidity causes the food to rot and again with no way to clean the feed tank this make it useless. this product is supposed to be for feeding fish how are you supposed to do that if you can’t use the item near water? horrible design and a total waste of money, i should have saved the money and used it to pay someone to feed my fish when i go away. wish i could get my money back so do yourself a favor and save yours!

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Technorati Tags: Aquarium Fish, Auto Fish Feeder, Automatic Feeder, Batteries, Batteries Rechargeables, Cichlids, Design Flaws, Different Times, Diode, Double Sided Tape, Ehiem, Flake Food, Gallon Tanks, Hatch, Hopper, Imo, Mounting Bracket, Sixty Seconds, Solar Cell, Stars Auto, Velcro

AquaChef Automatic Aquarium Fish Feeder 3 in x 5 1 4 in x 3 in

Going out of town? Don’t rely on out-of-date feeding blocks when you can use the AquaChef. It’s easy to give your fish up to eight feedings a day of flake, pellet, or crumbled food. Schedule single feedings for up to four different times, use the double-feeding feature to make any of those four two feedings, sixty seconds apart, or manually override the settings if you decide to give one more feeding yourself. The AquaChef also has an adjustable hatch to control the amount of food fed and to serve as a mixing stir bar to make sure the food isn’t clumped, just like you would. The moisture-resistant hopper is easy to clean and fill. Why let your fish starve when they can have their very own AquaChef?

User Ratings and Reviews

4 Stars Why pay $45 for an Ehiem?
This is a very well designed and reliable feeder that has only a few design flaws. With a bit of wear, the battery cover pops off easily resulting in the batteries falling out and the feeder programming getting lost. To prevent this I simply added a bit of tape The mounting bracket is also pretty useless unless you have a rimless tank with less than 1/2″ glass, but velcro or double sided tape works just as well for mounting. The feeding is also pretty dependent on how full the hopper is if you use flake food. To get more consistent feeding amounts, I would recommend using pellet food. The battery powered operation is also kind of a problem IMO, but you can fix that easily by simply replacing the batteries with NiCad rechargeables and wiring in a 3V solar cell in parallel (edit - MAKE SURE YOU USE A DIODE!)(I don’t see why feeders aren’t solar powered yet - they’re low power machines in high light enviornments and it would only be like a 20 cent increase in manufacturing cost… maybe this will be common in a few years?). The only other problem I can think of is that it’s kind of bulky, but that problem probably seems amplified to me considering I’m running it on a 2.5 gallon nano. With these few modifications, you’ll get a feeder that’s more reliable than an Ehiem with a larger food capacity for half the price. Enjoy!

1 Star absolutly horrible
wow, what a terrible product!!!!!! i used this product for less than two weeks and threw it away! filling the feed tank is a chore in itself and there is no way to clean it out. the feed tank is a horrible design and any sort of humidity causes the food to rot and again with no way to clean the feed tank this make it useless. this product is supposed to be for feeding fish how are you supposed to do that if you can’t use the item near water? horrible design and a total waste of money, i should have saved the money and used it to pay someone to feed my fish when i go away. wish i could get my money back so do yourself a favor and save yours!

4 Stars Auto fish feeder
I have two of these and I use them every time I have to leave town and they are very convenient. I have two 60 gallon tanks, one community and one cichlids and they handle the different amount of foods well.

2 Stars AquaChef Auto Feeder
The feeder is easy to assemble and works great. Timer and readout are clear and quick to set up. The only negative thing about this product is the design of the clamp. It didn’t fit on the aquarium edge (it has to be forced on, if you want the clamp to work, but mine did not) and the foam sticky pads were not secure and could not hold the weight on to the light panel top, so it fell in the water! Too bad, otherwise a good product. I bought another timer from a retail store and that timer uses a better screw on clamp (it fits snugly and easily mounts on the edge) but it’s not a digital readout and the timer is not adjustable, but it works.

5 Stars great automatic feeder
Price and quality make this a great automatic feeder. Setting up the timer took longer than expected (you must read the manual carefully) but other than that this is the best automatic feeder I have used.

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Technorati Tags: Aquarium Fish, Automatic Feeder, Batteries, Batteries Rechargeables, Design Flaws, Different Times, Diode, Double Sided Tape, Ehiem, Fish Feeder, Flake Food, Hatch, Hopper, Imo, Lost, Mounting Bracket, Sixty Seconds, Solar Cell, Tank, Velcro, Velcro Tape