Fish Mate P7000 Large, 6 lbs Capacity, Rain-Resistant Automatic Pond Fish Feeder

Works very well and very fairly priced. Very flexible feeding sizes and easy scheduling.

Product did exactly what it was supposed to. Our pond is very small, 4 feet deep and 6 feet in length, 4 koi,6 goldfish and a pleco. My fish were fed every single day on time for the whole eight days we were gone. I forgot to take pictures but I did exactly what other reviewers said to do which was to bungie cord it to a board or in place somehow and cover it with a bucket. Good thing I did because our security cameras caught a possum visiting the pond one night. I don't know if it's possible but I think the possum stole a pleco out of my pond. I haven't seen it since we left for vacation. We set it up a couple of days before vacation to make sure it would do its thing. I highly recommend this product.

I bought two of these feeders to feed my Chinese catfish in my aquaponics totes while I was on vacation. These held more than enough food for while I was gone and dispensed the food perfectly. I do wish the dispensing spout was longer, the tabs on the cover were more sturdy (you must push down hard on the cover before unlatching the tabs), and that programming was easier. The instructions for programming are clear, but I had to break out the instructions to adjust feeding times and amounts. Some reviewers questioned the feeder’s weather resistance. My two feeders survived two bouts of heavy rain and wind without breaking or allowing water into the hoppers. These feeders aren’t cheap, but they work and have the largest capacity I’ve seen.

The media could not be loaded. It works perfectly! we just wish it had an additional setting for qty. we have possum visitors in our backyard so we enclosed it in a wire crate and they have not been able to touch it. it works so well that you may forget to refill. Tip-set a reminder on your phone 😆

Packaged well. Easy to assemble.Directions on setup were good just a little bit complicated initially on how to program.Hopper is big takes lots of koi pellets (which feed very good thru the feed tube).Just set this up and initial automatic feeding the next day worked day worked great. Time will tell...Regular 5 gallon bucket will fit over the feeder after cutting out a slot for the feed tube. I think maybe the patio pavers coupled with screwing down the unit on wood planks (only provided 2 screw slots in the front (2 add'l screw slots in the backside of the feeder would have been even nicer) "should" work fine.With the 5 gallon bucket to keep the rain off and the unit screwed down on wood with additional paver weights on the sides.... maybe we have a shot with this thing!As this is temporary, while away, not real concerned about the looks ;-). Just needs to do its job!Bought two of these.... one for a 1,200 gallon pond and another for a 400 gallon pond.... With bucket protecting from varmits...... Worked great for about 2 weeks.... went on vacation and within two days each were visited by raccons.... nozzle was torn off of both feeders causing most all of the food spilling into the ponds..... lost 3 15 year old koi due to food dumps...... NOT recommended now.... tossed out and purchased the Hygger Automatic Pond Fish Feeder.... will see how this one does this summer....BTW, I knew the nozzles did not connect firmly in either case so used silicon glue to hold.... did not work either....

This unit works well as far as feeding at the programmed times, as well as the proper serving sizes. However, the “auger” that pushes the food down and out of the chute is much smaller in width than the chute itself. Therefore, not allowing the food to be dispensed out of the chute. It is only a fairly thin wire that needs to be widened to be closer to the inside size of the chute so that the food is pushed along instead of the auger just passing over the food and leaving it in the chute. Also, it is a must that this unit be fastened down so that nighttime animals can’t knock it into your pond.

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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.