Retirement and forum shutdown (17 Jan 2022)
Hi,
John Howell who has managed the forum for years is getting on and wishes to retire from the role of managing it.
Over the years, he has managed the forum through good days and bad days and he has always been fair.
He has managed to bring his passion for fish keeping to the forum and keep it going for so long.
I wish to thank John for his hard work in keeping the forum going.
With John wishing to "retire" from the role of managing the forum and the forum receiving very little traffic, I think we must agree that forum has come to a natural conclusion and it's time to put it to rest.
I am proposing that the forum be made read-only from March 2022 onwards and that no new users or content be created. The website is still registered for several more years, so the content will still be accessible but no new topics or replies will be allowed.
If there is interest from the ITFS or other fish keeping clubs, we may redirect traffic to them or to a Facebook group but will not actively manage it.
I'd like to thank everyone over the years who helped with forum, posted a reply, started a new topic, ask a question and helped a newbie in fish keeping. And thank you to the sponsors who helped us along the away. Hopefully it made the hobby stronger.
I'd especially like to thank John Howell and Valerie Rousseau for all of their contributions, without them the forum would have never been has successful.
Thank you
Darragh Sherwin
Juwel Automatic Feeder
The only draw back I can say about it is that there is a an adjustment toggle on it that allows minimal food or a very decent supply (depending on amount of fish u have) and by right everything else inbtween those parameters, but from my experince it really only seems be accurate when it is either set to minimum or max, the inbetween settings (which is what i want) can be arkward to get right, do some dummy runs with the food you are using before you actually put it over the tank.
the 2 feed option is eitehr 6 or 12 hrs apart, cant remember which
having said all that I was away for 2 weeks and it fed my malawis perfectly no losses.
here is the manual www.juwel-aquarium.de/en/juwel_feeder477.htm, it might address some questions you have,
hope that helps,
Tom
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hi all , I know this is an old thread but being new to the forum I am just posting my experience , have tried 3 or 4 automatic feeders only one I found good is the JBL auto food not cheap about 45 euro from seahorse . this is so good have it permanently on my tank feeding spectrum growth .5 mm pellets twice daily , no problems while on hols for 18 days during the summer
I must of got lucky as I bought one for 5-6 euro on Ebay from China a few years ago and hasn't let me down yet......now I only use it once a year for the two week holiers (weekenders away they can starve!!) so I wouldn't recommend it for daily use.
Ger
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use it every day no problem
Sorry I just read my post back.....what I meant is I bought a 'cheap nameless feeder' off Ebay that hasn't let me down (so far!!)......If I wanted a feeder to use daily then the JBL would probably be one i'd be looking at.
Hope that clears what I was saying up,cheers
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A Wonkey....duh ha
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