starypotter
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Hi everyone,
I'd been wanting to get something to feed my frozen food to my fish, but some of the ones online where you drop a cube in and let it defrost are quite pricy so I decided to make my own.
Materials-
Plastic canvas- Already had but would've cost $1
Feeding ring- Already had $3
Sharpie
Bowl (to trace a circle)
Scissors
Iron
Lighter
Wax/Parchment paper
Cut a PacMan out of the plastic canvas.
Put the iron on the hottest setting and tested to make sure plastic canvas would actually melt to itself.
TIP- don't hold it too long or it just melts into a sheet
Curl the PacMan to a cone shape and iron.
TIP- the bigger PacMan's mouth is the taller and more narrow the cone and it will drop into the water further. Next time I'm giving PacMan a bigger mouth.
TIP- Make sure you wait for it to cool before pulling the paper off or you may have to iron it again.
I had a little gap where it was sharp and I didn't want the fish to get cut so I took a lighter to it for a few seconds so there were no sharp edges.
Stuck it in the ring feeder and done!
I can remove it and rinse it out without messing around too much in the tank and my feeding ring remains for when I feed flakes and floating pellets.
Thoughts for next time- This works for blood worms, I haven't tried it with anything more chunky, it probably won't work without modification. If I knew I was going to be feeding a lot of chunky foods I would probably take a hole punch and make some bigger holes everywhere I could BEFORE I iron it all around PacMan's mouth and throat area so it's at the bottom of the cone once it's fused, you won't be able to get a hole punch in there from the top of the cone.
I'd been wanting to get something to feed my frozen food to my fish, but some of the ones online where you drop a cube in and let it defrost are quite pricy so I decided to make my own.
Materials-
Plastic canvas- Already had but would've cost $1
Feeding ring- Already had $3
Sharpie
Bowl (to trace a circle)
Scissors
Iron
Lighter
Wax/Parchment paper
Cut a PacMan out of the plastic canvas.
Put the iron on the hottest setting and tested to make sure plastic canvas would actually melt to itself.
TIP- don't hold it too long or it just melts into a sheet
Curl the PacMan to a cone shape and iron.
TIP- the bigger PacMan's mouth is the taller and more narrow the cone and it will drop into the water further. Next time I'm giving PacMan a bigger mouth.
TIP- Make sure you wait for it to cool before pulling the paper off or you may have to iron it again.
I had a little gap where it was sharp and I didn't want the fish to get cut so I took a lighter to it for a few seconds so there were no sharp edges.
Stuck it in the ring feeder and done!
I can remove it and rinse it out without messing around too much in the tank and my feeding ring remains for when I feed flakes and floating pellets.
Thoughts for next time- This works for blood worms, I haven't tried it with anything more chunky, it probably won't work without modification. If I knew I was going to be feeding a lot of chunky foods I would probably take a hole punch and make some bigger holes everywhere I could BEFORE I iron it all around PacMan's mouth and throat area so it's at the bottom of the cone once it's fused, you won't be able to get a hole punch in there from the top of the cone.
