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Its been a long time since i've been to this site, In May im going to Boot Camp, and I wanted to buy a Automatic feeder, i have someone that can change the filter when it needs it when im gone, but it would be easier on my Parents if I got a feeder and wouldnt have to worry about that part. Which brand has the best features and feeds the best, LOL. also one that can be easly refilled, its a 30gallon with tonz of guppies and a few clown loaches, and a pleco, hes fairly small right now.

Hi,
Boot Camp is a real grind, but worth it. Out of curosity,
which service did you choose? I'm retired Navy.

Your question has been covered before on this site and
here is the link to it:

http://www.fishprofiles.com/files/threads/27485.1.htm?9#

Good luck!
Frank


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Coast Guard GunnersMate, by reading that it makes me not wont to ever trust them, the feeders that is. My sister agreed to take them. and that would be even easier because i dont know where im going to be stationed..

AH, The Coast Guard.
I'll save the interservice teasing for later.
One of my best friends is retired RMC Coast Guard.
He and his wife, and Susan and I, play cards frequently
and I constantly tease him. I tell him that he tried
to get into the Navy but flunked "Swimming 101" and had
to settle for the Shallow Water Boys, instead of the
"real navy", the Blue Water Navy.

Enjoy yourself and have a great career.

Frank


-->>> The Confidence of Amateurs, is the Envy of Professionals <<<--

Hi there stud_man50

I couldn't make the link work (probably my error by my computer, as you don't mention this problem) but thought I'd share that I have just come back from a couple of weeks away. The tanks were fed by an eheim automatic feeder. I was a bit nervious, as I'd heard bad things about auto feeds, so I set them up on trial for a week or so, while I was there to monitor.

The eheim has a built-in fan, which is claimed to prevent moisture causing the food to clog up, which was one thing others told me could go wrong. The fan seemed to work and all went well.

It has only one chamber - so fish will eat the same food for the whole time. It is a large chamber and holds a lot of food. It is easy to refill, if your parents need to do so.

To adjust the amount of food dropped in the tank, you adjust the opening size (it slides easily). You can programme up to 4 feeds a day. I usually only feed my fish once a day, as much as they can eat in say 3-4 minutes. So what I did was:-

* adjust feed opening to drop in just enough food at one time that my fish would eat in 1 minute.
* after a 1 min break, programme another dump
* repeat until a total of 4 dumps
* 24 hours later, this sequence will be repeated.

I thought this worked better than a single daily dump, and it matched more closely my usual manual feeding of sprinkling a little, waiting for them to eat & then sprinkling more until 4 minutes were up.

I hope this helps you some.

Boot Camp - that sounds tough.

Cheers
TW