The Sera X-Feeder and XS-Feeder are two automatic fish food dispensers that Sera introduced last year but which are finally landing on American shores this month. While the slight difference in the name might lead you to believe that these auto fish feeders are in some way similar these two pieces of aquarium nutrition equipment have very little in common other than their function.
The XS-Feeder is atypical经典的旋转料斗风格的鱼类食品分配器Sera X-feeder是一种全新的设计，我们尚未看到为更广泛的水族馆爱好而产生的质量。Sera X-feeder不用像Sera XS馈线那样将食物像Sera XS馈线那样旋转，而是使用设备底部的螺丝型螺旋钻进行pushfood into the aquarium with greater precision and more flexibility.
It’s not widely discussed but most hobby-grade automatic fish feeders are primarily intended to be used with pelleted foods since they are usually more homogenous in size and shape than something like flake food. Although pellets are the ideal food for automatic fish feeders Sera has considered our range of preferences and offers an optional separate auger that has more threads and is better suited for doling out the flakes as well as smaller pellets.
Sera opted to further differentiate their automatic fish feeders with the X-Feeder being capable of multiple feedings and numerous setpoints which is programmed with a built-in LCD display while the XS-Feeder is more limited in the number of feedings and scheduling times. Sera USA just received their first batches of automatic fish food dispensers this month and for the price we’re much more interested in the ~$65 X-Feeder than the ~$55 XS-Feeder and are looking forward to putting both models though their paces keeping our higher metabolism fish fed more constantly than we tend to do by hand. [Sera]
