Auto feeding...?

Byrd · Jun 8, 2020

so I just put my first fish in my first salt tank. Its a 280g and so far i have added 2 clowns 2 royal grammas, and a serpent star. The fish are tiny so im using the smallest pellets I could find. As of right now I'm feeding them twice a day but i am wanting to add some anthias in the next couple weeks and I read that they need to be fed multiple times a day. So I was thinking about adding an auto feeder but I don't have a apex to get my pumps to go into to feed mode during the scheduled feed time. Is there something I can do to keep from my feed going done my over flow? The pellets are sinkers but alot of them still float

Hendrix · Jun 8, 2020

Melevs sells an acrylic piece to contain the food until it sinks. I just bought one, works great.

Eheim & Apex Auto-Feeder Chimney | Melev's Reef

The Eheim Autofeeder is great at adding a specific amount of fishfood to your tank once or more per day, but the food often lands on the surface and heads straight to the overflow to go down the drain. Instead of wasting food, I made the Eheim Chimney. The acrylic chimney is reef-safe and...

www.melevsreef.com

tymo92 · Jun 8, 2020

I put my auto feeder in my sump above the return pump, there's enough turbulence to get the floating pellets to break surface tension and get circulated back into the tank where my fish eat them pretty quick.

A small powerhead in the return chamber also helps to keep any pellets from getting caught in dead spots.