Thread: Hidden, WiFi controlled automatic feeder with a difference....

So far I have gone to great lengths to keep all the various pond systems needed for a Koi pond completely hidden from view.
As we regularly go away in our caravan, feeding the fish in our absence presented an interesting challenge.
I would religiously set up an auto feeder and put it all way on our return as they don't exactly add the the aesthetics of the pond.
I started to look for a way of setting up a hidden feeder which could be left permanently in situ.
I wasn't overly impressed with the dedicated fish feeders I checked out so thought I'd go "off piste" and consider a non-fish feeder.
This wouldn't be weather-proof, but would be ideal in every other way as there are several dry food feeders with decent capacity and excellent WiFi control, etc.
I would install it in the filter shed.
The big challenge was that despite having a 110mm gravity return from an outlet chamber, simply dropping the floating food into this chamber wouldn't really work.
I needed to devise a way to deliver the food directly into the return pipe as it leaves the outlet chamber.......
https://youtu.be/Cl3vluGy6DE

Great success!

I've always liked novel DIY ideas and this one impresses me.