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My Tank Thread
I use Eheim Everyday Fish Feeders for when we travel. Once I got the tank with the Euro Bracing, the feeder simply sat on one of the braces with a feeding ring below:
Worked great until one feeder outright died all together and with the replacement, the display went funky on me:
I came to the conclusion that being so close to the water level with popping water bubbles, they got the units wet and eventually caused them to die.
To solve this problem I purchased yet another feeder and simply mounted the feeder up high on a small wood cross brace with the feeding ring below:
With this arrangement, ran into two issues:
1. Some food dropping that high ended up on the EuroBrace
2. Don't ask me how, but Astraea snails would get on the feeding ring and partially sink it down making it ineffective. This happened twice.
I was simply living with this arrangement and putting up with the issues until someone mentioned the Eheim Feeding Station:
What a great idea and simple design and reasonably priced at ca $17. This would solve one of my issues, but being this short would not work mounted up so high. The "tube" portion needs to be underwater to allow the food to sink.
So here's my DIY solution.....using a thin wall 3 inch pipe and a scrap piece of 1/2 acrylic I made a high feeding station:
The feeder would sit on the acrylic shelf and dump the food down the pipe, which would terminate an inch or so below the water. Here I am holding it in place:
Now I just need to remove the feeding ring and redo the bracing for the shelf portions.....which is going to be a pain. I'll need to pull out the lights and remove the canopy to put screws into the wood bracing......or maybe directly into the 1/2 acrylic....haven't decided yet.
Worked great until one feeder outright died all together and with the replacement, the display went funky on me:
I came to the conclusion that being so close to the water level with popping water bubbles, they got the units wet and eventually caused them to die.
To solve this problem I purchased yet another feeder and simply mounted the feeder up high on a small wood cross brace with the feeding ring below:
With this arrangement, ran into two issues:
1. Some food dropping that high ended up on the EuroBrace
2. Don't ask me how, but Astraea snails would get on the feeding ring and partially sink it down making it ineffective. This happened twice.
I was simply living with this arrangement and putting up with the issues until someone mentioned the Eheim Feeding Station:
What a great idea and simple design and reasonably priced at ca $17. This would solve one of my issues, but being this short would not work mounted up so high. The "tube" portion needs to be underwater to allow the food to sink.
So here's my DIY solution.....using a thin wall 3 inch pipe and a scrap piece of 1/2 acrylic I made a high feeding station:
The feeder would sit on the acrylic shelf and dump the food down the pipe, which would terminate an inch or so below the water. Here I am holding it in place:
Now I just need to remove the feeding ring and redo the bracing for the shelf portions.....which is going to be a pain. I'll need to pull out the lights and remove the canopy to put screws into the wood bracing......or maybe directly into the 1/2 acrylic....haven't decided yet.
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