DIY automatic fish feeder for aquaponics

Do you have an aquaponic system? Cannot be there the hours that your fish have to eat? Big automatic fish feeders are quite expensive. Have a look how I made mine with 25 euros.

Step 1 The concept

Here is a scketch of how it works. I found it here. There is a drill that while rotating carries the food out. The drill rotates with a motor and the food is contained in a bottle.

Comments

[tinker234]

could i use a largeer tank like the ones for water dispensers like in offices

[OruKun]

I EFFIN LOVE YOU!!!! Couldnt for the life of me think of using a acrylic or plastic pvc strip to bend it like an archemedes screw. I was overthinking of using metal or finding a store that sell them >.< ($50 and the size is 5inch diameter, very exessive for a home grower). Although a suggestion of mine is having the length for the food to travel be decreased. Shorter equals faster, less materials and less work with bending the homade hopper screw. THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!

[roberts1010]

to deqwer, you could plug your unit into a timer like a light timer and set it to feed your fish like twice a day or somthing and you could set it to only feed for a minute or 2

[deqwer]

i see you feed alot in the video what if i only want to feed a little amount of fish food