JUWEL SmartFeed AppControl Automatic Aquarium Feeder

JUWEL SmartFeed AppControl Automatic Aquarium Feeder is the SmartFeed AppControl automatic feeder, which you set and monitor from your phone.

Key Features

• Change the schedule from anywhere: The real benefit is not the novelty, it is being able to feed a day late, skip a feed or check it actually ran while you are away.
• You can see whether it fired: The thing that makes people nervous about feeders is not knowing. Being able to look is worth more than an extra setting.
• Dry food only: Flake, pellet and granule. Not wet or frozen food, and keep the hopper part full rather than brimming in humid air.
• Needs your network: Anything app controlled depends on wifi and on an app staying supported. Ask us what it connects to before you commit to it.

How Much To Feed

• Less than you think. What the fish clear in two or three minutes, once or twice a day. Uneaten food rots, drives nitrate up and feeds algae.
• A feeder makes overfeeding easier, not harder. Set it low, watch for a few days, and only then adjust.
• Dry food absorbs moisture from aquarium air and cakes. Keep the hopper only as full as a week or two needs, and shake it when you top it up.

Leaving It Running While You Are Away

• Test it for a week while you are at home. Finding out it jammed is survivable on Tuesday and expensive while you are abroad.
• A week of slight underfeeding does healthy adult fish no harm at all. A hopper that dumps its contents in one go can kill a tank. Err low.
• Have somebody look in anyway. A feeder cannot notice a dead fish, a failed heater or a filter that has stopped.

Good To Know

• We do not list the app, the network requirements or the hopper capacity here. Ask us and we will check the box before we send it.
• A connected feeder is still a feeder. If the wifi drops it should keep its schedule, but test that before you travel rather than after.
• Mount it clear of the condensation under a hood, and run it for a week at home before you rely on it.