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Tetra Weekend Gel Feeder Block 5 days, 0.85 Ounces |  | Brand: Tetra
Category: Pet Products
List Price: $4.99
Buy New: $1.49
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Seller: Pet Supplies Now
Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 139635
Ingredients: Fish Meal
Media: Misc.
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Size: 0.85 oz.
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 0.5 x 3.1 x 5.9
MPN: 77151
Model: 77151
UPC: 046798771517
EAN: 0046798771517
ASIN: B000HHLH0I
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Allows fish to eat when hungry vs. plaster feeders that dissolve. | | • | Will not pollute water or negatively effect water quality. | | • | Gel blocks may be left in the aquarium when regular feeding is resumed. |
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Product Description
5 day feeder. Innovative gel feeder block allows fish to eat while aquarium owners are away from home. Packed with the patented, health enhancing procare blend. Will not pollute aquarium. Fish Meal
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| Customer Reviews:
Showing reviews 1-5 of 7
 Works great -- test your water, remove tray April 13, 2010
stevegt
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I did a 5-day test; I removed the foil, dropped the tray of food in the tank; the fish all instantly attacked it in a feeding frenzy (I hadn't fed them yet). Went out the first day, came back, noted that the fish were satiated, were only pecking at it occasionally. By this time, the agar had swelled a little, making a film of white on the food block. This might be what some reviews (here and for TetraVacation) are calling "mold". It's not mold, it's agar; inert as far as the fish and tank water are concerned.
Then I re-read the reviews, and realized that an extra comma in the instructions made me miss the fact that I was actually supposed to remove the tray from the food as well. Took the tray with food out of the tank, flipped it over, and the food block fell right out -- soaking in water had loosened it. (The only reason I can see to remove the tray is to prevent it from being flipped over by a bottom feeder; that would make the food inaccessible, as one reviewer noted.)
As of this writing, it's 5 days into the test. Most of the food block is left, I still see the fish eating it now and then, their bellies look full, they're pooping as usual, and they're acting normal. The tank water has never been better; ph 7.0, ammonia, nitrites and nitrates all zero. I haven't been feeding them anything else during this time.
So, it looks like this thing works. Reading these reviews got me so paranoid that I was afraid to try it. But as far as I can tell, many of the reviews are misleading -- either they didn't remove the tray, don't know what agar is, don't test or maintain their tank water quality, or maybe overfeed their fish in the first place. I'll reserve the possibility that maybe only guppies like this stuff, and other fish don't -- no way for me to test for that.
10 Gal tank of about 10 guppies, ranging in age from fry to adult, hang-on-tank filter pulling through undergravel filter (using the undergravel as a prefilter and biomass). Heater set at around 77 deg F.
Recommendations for the folks who make Tetra: You've got a good product here, and I'd like to keep using it. It would be a shame to see it not sell well; as far as I can tell, it's much better than the plaster blocks. Here's what I'd do:
(1) Rewrite the sentence "Remove foil seal, and tray, drop...". It's too easy to misread that. Try instead something like: "Remove foil seal, remove feeding block from tray, then drop..." Maybe add a hint about soaking the tray in water if it's difficult to remove.
(2) Add a sentence about the agar, so people know what to expect in appearance.
(3) Add a whole paragraph about water quality and temperature. I think some of your critics might be getting poor results because they're trying to leave their fish untended in an unfiltered bowl, or in a tank that is poorly maintained.
 Yuck October 2, 2009
J. H. (NJ)
I decided to place the feeder in the tank the night before I left to see if the fish would eat it. The package says it will not pollute the tank, but overnight my tank was clouded up and disgusting. I am not sure if the water temp has anything to do with it, but the package does not say so. Now when I should be packing, I have to break down the tank and clean it. On top of everything the fish did not recognize it as food. I will not be trying this product again.
my fish wouldn't eat this September 13, 2009
Linette C. Patterson (Seattle, WA USA)
I bought this right before I was going out of town for a week. Luckily we tried using it a few days before we were leaving town. Our fish wouldn't touch it. I had to run to the store at the last minute and buy an attachment for our fish tank that automatically dumps food flakes into the tank. Don't waste your money on this.
Awful. January 19, 2009
Misanthropicic (Iowa)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This product is awful. The fish did not touch it at all and it severely clouded the water, not to mention the foam that formed on the top of the tank because of it. When I removed it, the cloudy water and foam went away in a couple of hours with regular filtering, so this product was the culprit. This is a terrible product and I would never purchase it again.
 My hungry fish hardly touched it May 26, 2008
Anthony Chee (Brooklyn NY)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I was really hoping that this would work for my goldfish. My goldfish have voracious appetites, and at first I thought that they might eat it all up and get really sick if I put the whole feedder in the tank. I decided to try it out before I went on vacation. After leaving the feeder in for two days, they hardly touched the food. The product has been in my tank for 4 days and it has not clouded the water, but my fish are not eating it.
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