Juwel Easy Feed automatic fish feeder review - how to use it and how long it lasts

In this video I show how to use the battery operated Juwel Easy Feed automatic fish feeder. It is a small automatic feeder which I bought from Pet City in Brisbane for about $65 (it came with the batteries in the pack).

You can set it to either 1 feed per 24hrs, or 2 feeds per 24hrs. You can adjust how much food it releases with each feed to an extent.

For my tank of ~25 medium-large sized African Cichlids (+3 Bristlenose catfish), the food lasted just over 4-days when releasing the largest amount it can twice per day which was more than enough for my fish. It can last about 9 feeds altogether on that setting.

Overall I am really happy with it's performance for the cost, even though it is quite small it is still useable for larger tanks. If I was to go away for 2-weeks, I would buy another one and set them on 1 feed per day on the lowest setting and I think that this would work just fine, as I wouldn't want to overfeed them anyway. I probably wouldn't leave them longer than that though. I will post another video if I ever do that!

I hope you found this video helpful, and please let me know in the comments if you have any questions :)

If you're interested, here the link to a video on my netted lids from NVS Aquariums:

[tomde]

Just the review I needed! Some other reviews of this product confused me about the 2 feed settings, but good to see it in action here. I normally get my parents to feed if I'm out of town, but we are going on a family trip later this year so I'll get this feeder to cover us whilst we're away

[hoboelephant]

The good thing about this feeder is that some one can come and refill the feeder for you if your going away for a longer period of time. That way they don't have to know how much to feed your fish just how to refill the feeder. I have one of these for my Jewel Rio 400 Cichlid tank and it works just as shown in this video.
Great channel Kaity I'm about 8 months into my first try at these fish and I am having very good success thanks to YouTube channels like yours.

[queenjoy]

Thanks for sharing , I just bought one, and now I can feel comfortable going on holiday.🙏😊

[AB-kvqx]

Thank you, well explained,

Beautiful Aquarium you have there.

[wotrulke]

Thanks for sharing this video, I ordered the Juwel auto feeder from Amazon for £29.00 Uk pounds as I have a Juwel aquarium and it fits perfectly, Your video will be very helpful very clear and informative 👍🏼, UK 🇬🇧 fish keeper

[ceciliaandersson]

Thank you for sharing this! I have just watched the video and gonna use it for my big aquarium! 😊👍

[phancyisfancy]

thank you! i bought a second hand tank and it came with one of these feeders, and the manual website is offline!

[gotstreetglide]

You have a beautiful fish tank and fish!

[kristubiera]

Thanks Kaity thats the exact tutorial I was looking for. Just wanna say $65 though holy hell but atleast it's a dependable feeder.

[sebastiank]

Dziękuję za materiał. Super filmik i wspaniałe akwarium.

[matijakralj]

Btw. If you have red blinking indicator on the Juwel feeder,  gently spin the drum manually some degrees towards you or so that the text “Juwel aquarium” is pointing towards you. Then you can try by pressing the ‘M’ button to manually spin the drum. And for example test the amount of food it will dispense.

[iragitko]

Wow, I also have African cichlids, even some of the same ones. How many pounds of water are in your tank, and how many fish do you have?

[angryres]

Feeds 2 x 6 hour cycles but then skips 12 hours. Is there a setting for 12 hour cycles?

[pilotkoray]

I bought yesterday 25 euro same one from Netherlands, thank you

[AmeXcy]

Great video ;) Do you only feed them pellets ? Not any flakes/spirulina? Also what food would you recommend for Mbuna and peacocks ?

[Alex-chwn]

How long will this feeder last for?

I’m going on holiday for a month over Xmas and only have 8 small ottos in a 5L tank, so I was wondering if it would last the whole holiday feeding once a day to supplement their algae and biofilm grazing?

Cheers

[cosmicshy]

Thank you for this! Do you happen to know any battery operated aquarium heaters that will kick on & take over in case of a power outage?

[jonasrouthbregendahl]

Great review 👍🏼 Is it possible to use granulate and flakes in the same feeder?

[no_proxxiv]

Very useful but how do you know what time it will dispense food? Like lets say I want to program my return pump to switch off how do I know the time?

[vishalnaik]

If used daily, any issues about moisture/ humidity making food wet?