What can I use for automatic feeding?

strike2867 · 08/14/2010, 03:21 PM

I'd like to set up automatic feeding, but the fish food I've used just floats at the top. For me this means all of it is just going to end up feeding my skimmer. Can anybody recommend a good feeder/food. My biggest consumers are a pair of Tangs and a Copperband Butterfly. I'm not expecting the Butterfly to eat it, he eats well off the rocks and I'm ok with feeding frozen once a day. But I'm planning to get Anthias and my Chromis aren't growing fast enough.

MCCOOL · 08/14/2010, 03:37 PM

You can buy feeding rings that will trap the food on the surface until it sinks. I made one out of a Tupperware container that works great, I use New Life Spectrum pellets in an eheim feeder.

08/14/2010, 03:21 PM	#1
strike2867 Registered Member Join Date: May 2009 Location: Buffalo Grove, IL Posts: 700	What can I use for automatic feeding? I'd like to set up automatic feeding, but the fish food I've used just floats at the top. For me this means all of it is just going to end up feeding my skimmer. Can anybody recommend a good feeder/food. My biggest consumers are a pair of Tangs and a Copperband Butterfly. I'm not expecting the Butterfly to eat it, he eats well off the rocks and I'm ok with feeding frozen once a day. But I'm planning to get Anthias and my Chromis aren't growing fast enough.

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08/14/2010, 03:37 PM	#2
MCCOOL Registered Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Texas Posts: 1,135	You can buy feeding rings that will trap the food on the surface until it sinks. I made one out of a Tupperware container that works great, I use New Life Spectrum pellets in an eheim feeder.