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Aww, I got excited for a minute.
Not the weekly frozen feeder I was expecting from the name.
:-(
Nice idea, bur not the 'turnkey' solution I was looking for.
:-/
Butterflies, tangs, shrimp gobies, dwarf angels, some wrasses. When I set it up just before going you work and free when I get home, the feeding frenzy is reduced. I set mine up so that larger quantities are fed close together which presumably means they all get some.Cool! What fish do you have?
love the idea, however the only problem I see is if you have more than a few fish the food will thaw out slow and may only make it to where one or two fish are quicker than the others to get the food.
THIS is the flaw with these devices, and the reason that I have never used any slow-release devices. They SEEM like a good idea, until you actually take the time to think it though. I experimented with one (for pellets not frozen, though the problem is shared) years ago and essentially my most aggressive feeders (mostly the tangs) got 95% of the food. I suppose they could work if you only keep a few aggressive fish, but for a more balanced fish population it’s counterproductive. It is also the reason, BTW, why I pour thawed food directly into my vortech pump so that it is quickly distributed throughout the tank so that everybody gets some.
It looks quite large? Hard to tell from the pictures. I try to feed 2x day - so that each fish gets 'something' - Analogy - take a tank with 5 hypothetical fish - and each required 2 pellets of food a day. if I fed 1 pellet every 1 hour one fish may get most of the food. If I feed 10 pellets at once - its more likely that everyone gets something.
I was thinking this same thing about having a mini freezer that would be able to dispense frozen cubes directly into tank for say 2 weeks.To be honest, I can’t really see the need for this as it stands at the moment. Yes it might be helpful for feeding frozen food to some fish like maybe anthias, but mine will eat dry pellets from an auto feeder like Apex. This gets filled about once every 6 weeks so fully covers any holiday periods and will do multiple feedings if needed.
If they can add a mini freezer to keep it frozen for a few weeks, then they would be onto a winner, and I would buy one straight away, but my initial thoughts are it’s just another gadget.
Just my personal thoughts but I’m interested in what everyone else thinks.
Looks like a bad gimmick... hard pass.