Penn-Plax Daily-Double II Automatic Fish Feeder | 
 enlarge | Brand: Penn Plax
Category: Kitchen
Buy New: $14.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 51213
Media: Misc.
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 4 x 5.5 x 8
MPN: DDAF2
UPC: 030172279034
EAN: 0030172279034
ASIN: B0002565NO
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
Never forget to feed your fish again. This battery operated unit dispenses flake food to your fish twice a day, holding enough for up to four weeks. It's the safe, accurate, and easy way to feed your fish. Perfect for ensuring your fish are fed regularly while you're away and ideal for everyday feeding. Helps prevent overfeeding which can clog filters and pollute the tank. Simple knob control adjusts food quantity. Mounts to tank with clamp or operates free-standing from tank hood. Requires one AA battery which is not included. Thoughtful gift for any aquarist. Daily-Double Automatic Fish Feeding Instruction sheet To open cover, slightly raise lock tabs one by one while lifting cover off. Fill drum with flake fish food. Note: Larger flakes should be broken up to prevent clogging of feeding tube. *See note below. Regulate quantity of food by turning adjustable food dispenser. At the + setting, the DD-AF2 will dispense the maximum serving per rotation, at the - setting, the minimum. Before attaching food drum to motor spindle check food quantity by rotating the feeding drum clockwise over a sheet of paper. To increase or decrease quantity, rotate food dispenser tube to + or - setting. Load fresh AA battery (not included). Mount food drum onto one of four positions on square spindle and check drum rotation by inspecting after one hour. Clockwise movement of feeding tube should be equivalent to that of the hour hand on a clock. Clamp onto tank frame and secure tightly with screw.
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 Works great but October 26, 2007
This unit works great. I have used it while away for 10 days at a time. But the trick is not to use flake food. I use the small cichlid pellets. I can see how flake food could get damp or a large flake getting in the way of it reloading. With the small ROUND cichlid pellets they just roll right into the tube when reloading. It will feed twice a day as it just turns like the hour hand of a clock giving you a feed every 12 hours. Make sure it feeds when the lights are on or during daylight when the days are long.
 Terrible October 22, 2007
I bought this product to use for vacation as well, but beware, if you are going to use it with flaked food. First, you must grind the flakes smaller to even get through the feeder. Also, when water started evaporating a little bit, all the food got wet and stuck in the feeder. I would not recommend this product!
A piece of Junk May 24, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I bought this feeder and it hasn't worked right from day one. It ticks like a clock, but it doesn't move an inch. I even marked it with a piece of tape so I could see if it is moving. I doubled checked the battery as well. This was extremely disappointing. I wouldn't trust this product to feed my fish even if it suddenly decided to work (which I don't think is going to happen).
Bad Design, Poor ly-made and Doesnt Work December 6, 2006
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I bought this for $11 and have been testing it for a week. The battery compartment is hopeless - almost had to force the batteries in (and I did check to make sure I used the correct batteries). There is a tube inside the rotating drum which is probably driven by a typical clock mechanism. The tube has a cut-out that catches the fish food when it is at the 6 o'clock position and as it rotates to the 12 o'clock position, the food falls out of the other end of the tube into the water. This cut-out is far too small for typical flake food or 1/4" pellets. I had to chop the flakes into small bits so that the cut-out will collect the right amount of food.
Having done that I filled the drum with about a quarter full of food and put it the battery. Well, I hear ticking and put a tiny stick at the top of the drum to see if it actually rotates. Next morning, the stick is still there. Dead battery?? I try again with a brand new battery and hear ticking before I go away - my marker is still there next morning.
I suppose the clock might be working but the mechanism that drives the drum is kaput.
 Worth the money August 3, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought this for 10 dollars. I bought it mainly for vacations, so i tested it and it took a load of my hands, i just wanted to test it but now i use it daily. It holds a lot of food, and it distributes it evenly, and almost every 12 hours. Haven't had any evaporation problems yet
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