Fish Mate P7000 Automatic Pond Fish Feeder – Programmable LCD Timer, Ideal for Pellets & Sticks, Large 6.5 lb Capacity

Works great to feed our fish when we are travelling. Just take care not to put too close to water surface or the food will draw moisture and clog up the spout. Also, it does dispense a lot of product. We succeeded by taping the opening a bit to reduce the spout opening. That helped dispensing less food. The timer worked great

Works as advertised. Easy to assemble and program. Like most pond owners, we have raccoons to deal with. This feeder is used on a small pond. nAttached is a photo of the Fish Mate, suspended from an inexpensive trellis purchased at Lidl; similar one is available on Amazon. With minor modification, it can be assembled low and wide to span the small pond. Bungee cords are hooked onto the feeder and the unit is suspended by a couple carabiners. No need for a cage or other type of enclosure with this arrangement. One month now, and no problems with raccoons. The anti-heron netting is below the feeder and the food just falls through. Bottom line, the feeder is reliable and a good value.

This product did work and fed my fish for 10 days. Definitely needs to be in a waterproof container, otherwise my pond pellets started to show moisture damage and I would think the pond condensation would take out the batteries pretty easily. I think the top lid of the dispenser would need to have a rubber seal and be locking for it to be waterproof. Once I put the dispenser in a 5 gallon bucket like the other reviewers, it was fine. Used an orange 5 gallon bucket, cut a hole on the bottom side. My hole was too big, so sealed it off with duck tape. I had to remove the lid from the dispenser to get it to fit in the bucket, but the bucket had a lid that made it water tight. I have a metal grate over my pond to keep the raccoons out, just placed the bucket with my dispenser on the grate (it's level). Pretty easy to program, hardest part is figuring out how much it dispenses. You can program up to 3 feedings and change how much it dispenses with each feeding. The first one or two feedings when you first set it up - nothing comes out as it is still filling the pellets through the the feeder spout. After that, it starts dispensing. To figure out how much it would dispense, I set mine up inside at first with a bowl underneath the spout. I have four 5 - 10" Koi that eat small pellets and I guessed they would need 2 feedings a day on level 2 of the amount of food. Way too much and I would have killed them had I kept that setting. I ended up settling on 1 feeding at level 1 for the small pellets I feed my fish. Overall, it works and kept my fish alive. Don't guess at the level of food dispensed, set it up first and see how much it dispenses with your size pellets. They need to tweak the lid with a rubber seal to make it waterproof (also battery case), but putting it in a 5 gallon bucket solves that problem.

This product works great, once you figure out a couple of things first. It is pretty easy to put together, and it seems like a good design. You need to follow the directions to program it. First you set the clock, then you go through and set up to three feedings per day, with a specific amount of food for each feeding. You should go through the calibration part of the process to measure how much food is dispensed at a level 10, then adjust up or down for your specific number of fish and size of pond. We have three Koi and have adjusted down from our original estimates because we were finding a lot of uneaten food in the pond. The hardest part for us was positioning the feeder where it could dispense in the pond, and be safe from the raccoons and other animals that sneak into our backyard from the woods behind our fence. Thankfully several folks have shared their solutions on Amazon, and I say "thank you" for sharing your ideas. We liked the bucket idea to protect the feeder from sun, rain, and pests. We found that our cat litter buckets worked perfectly, and it has a handle to hang it by. We just happened to have a pole from an unused bug-zapper that has worked well for us so far. We like this setup so well we may use this full time instead of just when we go on vacation. I would like to find a way to have more flexibility in positioning it over the pond, but that may take a little more work. After using this a while we have discovered that ours isn't lasting quite a week on only 1 feeding per day on the lowest setting. Not sure why, but it may be the raccoons. I have seen them sticking their little paws up the spout I assume to pull out more fish food. We were gone a week and it was empty when we returned. Guess we will need to put it out of reach of the raccoons or find a mesh to put over the spout that will keep their paws out. We still like it, but needs more work.

I purchased this to feed my turtles while I am away for more than 3-4 days. I also have a small Eheim auto feeder for short durations away, but I needed something that could feed them for at least 2 weeks and this would likely last a couple months or more with the large hopper bin! Originally intended for winter use only as I house the turtles in the basement in winter and they go outdoors for summer, but this will be ideal outdoors as well. I am guessing as I haven't measured specifically but I'd say it holds about 2 gallon sized pails of food. That is the equivalent of 2 of the Reptomin 2 lb size of food pellets for turtles, which I also buy on Amazon. It was easy to install, assemble and set up, instructions no problem to follow were clear and simple. Setting meal times was easy to accomplish, with the ability to set 3 feedings per day. The trick is to get the meal SIZE correct. I initially only went through the procedure once but after a week realized it was feeding far more than required so I re-did it this time using a lower setting. I think the problem was that initially the auger isn't full so first result was skewed as the auger remains full after it starts so would of course release more food as a result. I recommend going through the meal size setup up to 5 times to get it accurate. Also has manual feed and an off setting, nice. I have had this for a few months and it works flawlessly. Only drawback is battery changes - instructions say must be changed within 60 seconds or all settings are lost. That might be a challenge to do in 60 seconds...haven't had to yet so we'll see! The feeder must be secured, in my case because it was in the basement and would be undisturbed by weather or wildlife outdoors I didn't think it was necessary until I realized any movement can cause food to fall out of the chute as the chute & auger remain full at all times. My turtles are quite active so bumping up against the sides of their tub or jumping off the basking dock caused enough movement to release food they didn't need. I zip-strapped it securely and tightly to a shelf across the top of the tub to prevent movement. Very happy with this purchase, very versatile and inexpensive compared to others I looked at.

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The settings did not work when trying to set up

I purchased this automatic pond fish feeder to cater for my Koi etc whilst away on holiday. It came with adequate instructions to suit my needs although it took a little getting used to at first but once mastered the digital settings are fairly easy really. Assembly was simple and the the feeder sits neatly on the pond edge and the food is delivered into the pond via the spout. The food hopper is large and would easily cater for a week or more away. There are 3 daily food settings which you can set to suit your own needs, either once, twice or three times a day at times set by you. You can also set the amount of food delivered on each occasion. These are set up by an incremental number scale. Do not make the mistake of assuming as I did that these numbers equate to a second each, they are some kind of unit. Test the feeder out on a bench first so the food is delivered into a tray and weigh it. 5 units equates to about 17g and 10 units equates to about 33g. The measurements over a period of time are fairly accurate. Once tested and set up you are good to go and set it on the pond edge. All in all the product looks to be well made and does exactly what I asked it to do, feed my fish regularly whilst absent. I am pleased with what I have seen so far and have only not given it five stars as I want to test its reliability over an extended period and its claimed waterproof abilities. I will report back at a later date on this aspect. Edit - after a prolonged soaking in heavy rain this morning it seems to have passed its waterproof test. The food in the hopper remained bone dry and all is working well. Further update - I have has this running for about 3-4 weeks now and it delivers the right amount of food right on time every time. The clock seems to be very accurate so does the amount of food delivered. Really pleased with this product, it does exactly what is claimed. Excellent, upgraded to 5 stars. Update 18/08/19 - Still working fine. It delivers the right amount of food on time every day. I should just add that I use Tetra Pond Variety Sticks and these do NOT jam the mechanism or become moist and block the spout. Further update (22/10/2020 - still going strong and delivers the right amount of food at the right time.

Distributeur au top, très facile d’utilisation. Réglage à l’heure convenue. La durée du contenu dépend du débit décidé. Idéal pendant les vacances. Les poissons s’habituent très bien. Fixé sur le rebord pour le vent avec un cache pour l’humidité (on est prudent)