Fish Mate P7000 Automatic Pond Fish Feeder – Programmable LCD Timer, Ideal for Pellets & Sticks, Large 6.5 lb Capacity

Works as advertised. Easy to assemble and program. Like most pond owners, we have raccoons to deal with. This feeder is used on a small pond. nAttached is a photo of the Fish Mate, suspended from an inexpensive trellis purchased at Lidl; similar one is available on Amazon. With minor modification, it can be assembled low and wide to span the small pond. Bungee cords are hooked onto the feeder and the unit is suspended by a couple carabiners. No need for a cage or other type of enclosure with this arrangement. One month now, and no problems with raccoons. The anti-heron netting is below the feeder and the food just falls through. Bottom line, the feeder is reliable and a good value.

Worked excellent while on vacation. Thinking to continue using it for the entire season. Just need to fill the canister and good to go. Fish are feed consistently three times a day. Well made and worth every penny!

The Fish Mate P7000 is a very good and reliable feeder. It’s well-built and works consistently, which gives peace of mind when feeding my fish. However, its features are a bit limited. You can either schedule up to 3 feedings per day with a custom feed amount, or use frequency mode, which feeds every set interval but is fixed at 20g each time. I would love to see an update that allows frequency feeding with a custom amount instead of being locked at 20g. That would make it perfect.

Packaged well. Easy to assemble.Directions on setup were good just a little bit complicated initially on how to program.Hopper is big takes lots of koi pellets (which feed very good thru the feed tube).Just set this up and initial automatic feeding the next day worked day worked great. Time will tell...Regular 5 gallon bucket will fit over the feeder after cutting out a slot for the feed tube. I think maybe the patio pavers coupled with screwing down the unit on wood planks (only provided 2 screw slots in the front (2 add'l screw slots in the backside of the feeder would have been even nicer) "should" work fine.With the 5 gallon bucket to keep the rain off and the unit screwed down on wood with additional paver weights on the sides.... maybe we have a shot with this thing!As this is temporary, while away, not real concerned about the looks ;-). Just needs to do its job!Bought two of these.... one for a 1,200 gallon pond and another for a 400 gallon pond.... With bucket protecting from varmits...... Worked great for about 2 weeks.... went on vacation and within two days each were visited by raccons.... nozzle was torn off of both feeders causing most all of the food spilling into the ponds..... lost 3 15 year old koi due to food dumps...... NOT recommended now.... tossed out and purchased the Hygger Automatic Pond Fish Feeder.... will see how this one does this summer....BTW, I knew the nozzles did not connect firmly in either case so used silicon glue to hold.... did not work either....

I’ve had it for a month and works well so far. It’s a bit difficult to set up as the buttons stick a little but with a good push it works. Really needed this for when I travel and it worked out really good for me. No issues thus far!

The design isn’t great. So it took a couple of days for an animal to figure out how to take the top and bottom apart to empty the feeder. I thing but it on a paving stone and used bungee Cords to hold it onto the rock and keep the top on. That worked for a few weeks. The. The animal just pulled off the tube that delivers the food to the water and all the food poured out. I’ve also lost the tube now so the feeder isn’t usable. Maybe I’ll find it when I clean the 7,000 gallon later this summer, but for now it’s useless.All that out of the way, it works pretty well if animals aren’t defeating the design. The timer lets you set up to three feeding times during the day and you can set the amount of food at each feeding. That latter isn’t an exact measurement, so you’ll need to put in your mix of food and do some testing to see how much comes out for each unit of feeding. Then you can assign multiple feeding units per feeding time.

Excellent feeder although as stated on several reviews, it is not critter proof. Most people put a bucket over it with a slot. I chose to disguise it under a home made fishing cabin. Only issue which I resolved, was feeding a small enough amount on “mini” fish pellets. I compressor the feed screw slightly (1/2” overall) to reduce the feed rate in half.