Feeding station

[FuDz Cwerner]

Has anyone found or made a good feeding station for their horses? I've tried training mine to eat out a shell, but didn't have much luck. I saw one a while back on reefbuilders, but I can't find it in the US. Here's a pic of it.

http://blog.aquanerd.com/2012/01/automatic-seahorse-feeder-from-atb.html/comment-page-1

 

[shse666]

Looks like a good idea. A lot of the food I add ends up feeding the CUC instead of the ponies.

 

[FuDz Cwerner]

Me too. My CUC gets the majority of what I feed. I spend the better part of 10 min using a sea squirt to feed my ponies each day. I can't build anything near as good as what's in the article. I thought about asking Marc to give me a quote.

 

[shse666]

I'm not clear on how the food stays in the tray.

 

[fperkins]

We did the artificial cup for one tank and the concave rock in another. The rock locked better, but bristle worms became an issue.

http://www.seahorse.com/feed-ezy-on-frozen-mysis/

A what to feed discussion (oldie but a goodie)
http://www.seahorse.org/library/articles/SeahorseFoods.php

 

[FuDz Cwerner]

@shse666 wrote:

I think since the feeder floats, you just pour the food in the top and it sinks down to the cup.

 

[FuDz Cwerner]

@fperkins wrote:

Mine don't have any trouble eating frozen mysis, and I have a pretty good population of pods. I'm just looking for a slightly easier way to feed them. The tank has been up for over a year and each day we hand feed with the sea squirt to make sure they get enough. The tank mates are a scooter blenny and yellow headed goby. The goby easily out competes for food, but after it eats a few pieces, it goes back to its cave or sifts the sand.

 

[Guest]

I made a feeding station using nylon screen and a clear acrylic tube. I super glued it all together. Worked great.

 

[FuDz Cwerner]

@M@! wrote:

Do you have any pics? I can't visualize it.

 

[Guest]

I couldn't find an actual pic of the feeding station but here is a pic of the materials I used. I made this for feeding my sun coral. My feeding station was just a rectangle box made out of the mesh with the tube to glued to the top.

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[FuDz Cwerner]

Thanks!

 

[Eckolancer]

@M@! wrote:

What kind of mesh is that and where did you get it?

 

[Guest]

@Burbarry wrote:

I think it's called plastic canvas, they have at Michaels, Hobby Lobby, Fabric stores.