Fish Mate P7000 Automatic Pond Fish Feeder – Programmable LCD Timer, 6.5 lb Capacity, Adjustable Portions for Pellets & Sticks, Weather Resistant Outdoor Design

If you have a koi pond and need to travel, this automatic feeder is a game changer. Purchased this 3 years ago and it still works great.

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

The Fish Mate P7000 is a very good and reliable feeder. It’s well-built and works consistently, which gives peace of mind when feeding my fish. However, its features are a bit limited. You can either schedule up to 3 feedings per day with a custom feed amount, or use frequency mode, which feeds every set interval but is fixed at 20g each time. I would love to see an update that allows frequency feeding with a custom amount instead of being locked at 20g. That would make it perfect.

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.

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....

The design isn’t great. So it took a couple of days for an animal to figure out how to take the top and bottom apart to empty the feeder. I thing but it on a paving stone and used bungee Cords to hold it onto the rock and keep the top on. That worked for a few weeks. The. The animal just pulled off the tube that delivers the food to the water and all the food poured out. I’ve also lost the tube now so the feeder isn’t usable. Maybe I’ll find it when I clean the 7,000 gallon later this summer, but for now it’s useless. All that out of the way, it works pretty well if animals aren’t defeating the design. The timer lets you set up to three feeding times during the day and you can set the amount of food at each feeding. That latter isn’t an exact measurement, so you’ll need to put in your mix of food and do some testing to see how much comes out for each unit of feeding. Then you can assign multiple feeding units per feeding time.

Excellent feeder although as stated on several reviews, it is not critter proof. Most people put a bucket over it with a slot. I chose to disguise it under a home made fishing cabin. Only issue which I resolved, was feeding a small enough amount on “mini” fish pellets. I compressor the feed screw slightly (1/2” overall) to reduce the feed rate in half.

I bought this product about 3 months ago. I too, had trouble with the programming. When I finally got the right person on the phone, the programming was perfect. The problem was: the manual was different from the verbal instructions I received on the phone. Now that that is taken care of, I was reading reviews that mentioned that the unit did not work well in high humidity or rainy days. The food would clog up and the company said it was not waterproof. So I put my talented husband to the task to fix this problem before we even installed it permanently. He used materials he had at home and created a beautiful cover for the unit. Within one week of installing the unit and cover, we had about 4 days of heavy rain with a lot of wind. Nothing clogged up and the unit worked perfectly. Since that time, we have had several high humidity days and also more rainy days. We live in Texas and it can be very hot and dry for several days. No matter what the weather, this unit with the "weatherproof" cover has worked perfectly. I put enough pellets in the feeder for 1 month (this last time for 2 months), and I have not had one single problem yet. The materials he used: A five gallon paint bucket (from any hardware store), a post that was cemented in the ground on the outside of the pond wall, a metal flat holder that previously was used to hold an old satellite dish unit to a roof, and a few screws. He put air holes in the upside down bucket as well as a cut out for the feed spout and screwed it to the holder which was screwed to the post. He then painted the entire bucket, etc. It looks beautiful and can easily be removed to add more feed.

Die Bestellung und Lieferung lief hervorragend! Da wir schon vorher versucht hatten, mit anderen Artikeln zu versuchen, waren wir skeptisch. Als wir den Futterautomaten auspackten, waren wir begeistert von dem sehr guten Matereal, der Verarbeitung und der einfachen, aber sehr effektieven Anwendungsart! Kein Verklemmen, kein Verhaken des Futters mehr möglich. Es läuft ähnlich wie ein Fleischwolf, nur es zerkleinert nicht, sondern die Schnecke transportiert. Bei der Zeit- u. Mengeneinstellung muss man sich sehr genau an die Vorgaben halten, dann klappt alles. >Die Befüllung ist mit dem sehr praktischen Klackdeckel sehr gut zu handhaben. Kein Schrauben, kein Drehen, kein Verkanten. > Ich habe den Automaten dann erst paar Tage laufen lassen und habe die genaue Futtermenge immer wieder kontrolliert. Menge und Zeit veränderten sich nicht und dann konnten die Fische ohne uns Urlaub machen. Als wir wieder kamen, haben die Fische am Geräusch schon erkannt: "Es ist Futterzeit! " ***** "Preis, Leistung, ist voll gerechtfertigt! " >>Danke an den Hersteller, der sich mit Sicherheit, Gedanken gemacht hat, um die Tiere und seine Kunden zufrieden zu sehen! >>>Ich kann jedem der so ein Teil braucht, raten, genau diesen Futterautomaten "P7000 Digital Auto Poind Feeder" zu kaufen! Danke nochmal! R. Baumgart

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.