Kizmar
#derpface
Part 1:
Looking at getting an automatic fish feeder to drop very small portions of pellets in the morning while I'm at work. In the evenings they'll be fed mysis and other frozen/cold foods.
After looking online I've decided that I'd ask here, because there are a ton of them and I don't want to buy a POS.
I have a canopy and glass hoods on my tank, so I'm limited to a feeder that will work by sitting on top of the hood. I would love to hear suggestions if you guys have used auto-feeders that worked well and dispense accurately measured portions.
Why I want to do this...
I'm pretty sure my Coral Beauty is picking at a couple of my corals, and it only seems to happen while I'm at work. I'm guessing it's because she's getting too hungry and too impatient to wait for me to get home from work. She doesn't mess with anything on the weekend or days I work from home, because I feed them shortly after the lights turn on.
Part 2:
Now that it's heating up in Michigan, I've been reading through the "overheating" threads on here. Lots of great advice... which leads me to wonder if I should be working towards replacing my glass covers with screen covers of some sort.
My question here is... assuming my tank ISN'T overheating, is it still a generally good idea to get rid of the glass covers for any reason? Do they have any negative impacts if they're not causing overheating?
Looking at getting an automatic fish feeder to drop very small portions of pellets in the morning while I'm at work. In the evenings they'll be fed mysis and other frozen/cold foods.
After looking online I've decided that I'd ask here, because there are a ton of them and I don't want to buy a POS.
I have a canopy and glass hoods on my tank, so I'm limited to a feeder that will work by sitting on top of the hood. I would love to hear suggestions if you guys have used auto-feeders that worked well and dispense accurately measured portions.
Why I want to do this...
I'm pretty sure my Coral Beauty is picking at a couple of my corals, and it only seems to happen while I'm at work. I'm guessing it's because she's getting too hungry and too impatient to wait for me to get home from work. She doesn't mess with anything on the weekend or days I work from home, because I feed them shortly after the lights turn on.
Part 2:
Now that it's heating up in Michigan, I've been reading through the "overheating" threads on here. Lots of great advice... which leads me to wonder if I should be working towards replacing my glass covers with screen covers of some sort.
My question here is... assuming my tank ISN'T overheating, is it still a generally good idea to get rid of the glass covers for any reason? Do they have any negative impacts if they're not causing overheating?