Current USA Aquachef Auto Fish Feeder
by ADVANCE AQUA TANKS
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Kitchen and Housewares Reviews of Current USA Aquachef Auto Fish Feeder
Customer Review: Starving fish
Summary: 1 Stars
I purchased this feeder so my fish would not go hungry while I was on vacation. The time and the feedings are set using a 24h clock, so it's pretty hard to mess up. I did a trial run and everything seemed to be working fine. When I got back from vacation, my fish were not looking so hot. I fed them and they ate voraciously which got me wondering if the feeder was actually working. So I set my iphone alarm for 10:00 am and watched the feeder to see if it was dispensing food. Nothing. Then I set it for 11:00 am, and watched. Still nothing. So somewhere during the time I was gone, this feeder just quit working. Batteries are fine, clock is set right and so is the feeding time.
Maybe it will work for you, but it didn't work for me.
Customer Review: Superb!!
Summary: 5 Stars
This device really does what you need it for: it is efficient and delivers the food in various intervals of time programmed by the owner. I program it to deliver 6 feedings (2 with a difference of 60 seconds at 3 times a day), I do this at the second lowest set of feeding not to overfeed them and to shuffle well the food, so the device delivers it well and the food does not get clogged. You have to have in mind that in the instructions this is not mentioned: 0=no food, 1 arrow delivers one feeding, 2 arrows deliver 2 feedings with 60 seconds difference. My fish are healthy and active, what demonstrates that this little device really works. I can go to the office and leave them unattended without ever feeling worried. I highly recommend it.Customer Review: Useless
Summary: 1 Stars
Will not fit most tanks without tank modification. Clamp opening is too small. The one I received would not dump automatically.Customer Review: VERY easy to set up. Does everything it needs to and does it WELL.
Summary: 5 Stars
Excellent product. Simple, reliable. It will do everything you except from it and do it well.
Don't listen to people who say it's hard to set up (no offense). It's terribly easy, even boring. Set it up one time and forget about feeding your fish.
Customer Review: Very good, but has a couple short-comings
Summary: 4 Stars
I like many of the features especially that the feeding is performed by a rotation performed at feeding time rather than a rotation that is continuous until the food finally falls out. It appears to be fairly well made.
I have two complaints that prevent me from scoring it as perfect:
- The programming has one "extra" step of indicating the number of feeding per cycle. If you do not enter anything it defaults to zero and your fish do not get fed. It is very easy to forget this last step if you are not going through step-by-step with the instructions. I think the default should be one feeding per cycle as I suspect this is what most people will desire and would prevent the fish from getting no food.
- Filling the feeder and cleaning the feeder is not easy as it is via a little rubber flap that looks a little fragile but regardless does not provide great access. I have a few Daily Double automatic fish feeders and they are much easier to fill and clean (but not as nice a feeder - The Daily Double is better in ease of programming (no programming involved) and ease of filling/cleaning but has different short-comings).
Of the two type of automatic feeders that I own, this is the better one.