Pond Boss Forums MANAGING AN EXISTING POND Feeding New cheap feeder

I just got a flyer from a company called "Native Outdoors", and they are advertising a "new" product. It is a Remington 6 V. Directional feeder for 69.99.

It says that there are 8 daily feeding times, varmint proof, and a 4 yr. warranty.

Anybody heard of this? The funny thing is that the photo doesn't resemble a fish feeder.

There is this one but it dont look like a directional? Says 360. Probly not the same thing, Only one I could find.feeders

Bruce, I bought one I believe like you have from them a couple of years ago. It was the olive drab rectangular shaped plastic with the electrical parts below it. It has a paddle wheel propeller on the motor. This is probably an updated digital controller on it, vs. the solar dawn and dusk controller.

Burger, that's what I thought too, but the picture looks completely different, and when I called a few months ago they said they had discontinued that olive drab model. I'll try to locate a picture.

Here it is.

Bruce i sell those as well, to my knowldege this is not avial yet. i have been waiting for awhile on this new unit. I will let you know when I know ready to ship. thanks

Awesome, Greg. Thank you.

Specs anyone ? How big , capacity etc.

Here's the answer by email I just got from Native Outdoors.

The directional units we currently sell are just the 'throwing unit'.
You would put the directional unit on your own hopper.

Bruce Condello wrote:
> I'm ready to purchase a couple of your Remington directional feeders
> (6V), and I was unable to find out what the feed capacity is. Please
> let me know.
>
> Bruce Condello

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Mark Scheurer
Native Outdoors LLC
201 Laurence Drive Ste 106
Heath TX 75032
(877)650-7938
http://www.nativeoutdoors.com


So, evidently it's just a throwing unit? Still not a bad deal if you could make a simple connection to a hopper.

How much do hoppers cost; and how do you get them.

I will try again, one last time to post. A 5 ga. bucket would suffice for a small pond. Get a common deer hopper, or what ever you conjure up for larger ponds. It appears to be made of plastic, therefore not heavy. Probably mounts with a rubber gasket and bolts from inside the hopper and thru threaded inserts in the top of the unit. You will drill a large hole thru the hopper and install a funnel. There may be a backing plate for support, and to hold the funnel down.

I just want something for my very smallest ponds, so a 5 gallon bucket would be a nice, cheap way to do it. Would mounting it to plastic crack the plastic? I'm thinking of ordering one just to play with it. Greg, when you get one please call me up.

What about the amount it throws per second of run time ? Greg let me know when you get them also.

BM thanks for the info. I think you are right about the what and how to.

Do you think you could attach them to a 55 gallon drum? The plastic on those is a little thicker and probably less likely to crack. Also, would mean more time between fillings. If I decide to feed I too would be interested. Wonder if it comes with mounting hardware and/or funnel needed to attach to hopper. Looks like a great price.

I saw one of these in Academy Outdoors (local sporting goods store like a Galyans, Cabellas, Gander Mountain etc) today. It looks substantial enough and could easily be hung under a plastic 30 or 55 gallon barrel. They even sold funnels and other accessories for building your own feeder.

It's been about a month since any update on these. Any new "news"? Anyone purchased one and tried it out yet?

They look promising.

I was hoping one of you "engineering" types would buy it, rig it, photograph it and post it. I'm not smart enough to figure out anything on my own.

That thing looks more like a pellet dropper for Koi ponds than a pellet thrower.

This lower unit can throw most 1/4" fish food up to 40 feet, with most of it being between 15 to 25 feet. It can be mounted on anything from a bucket to a 55 gallon drum. The bucket version of the complete feeder and the larger 150lb. version that can be filled from the ground will be available in March. Also, it can be set for up to 8 feed times 1-90 seconds and each feed time can have a different duration.

Ok here is the update. You can buy the lower unit and fab to bucket, barrell, etc. Manufacture told me setup on bucket is less than 20 mins. It comes with good set of instructions. If you like you can wait a week and let me try it out. I have one on order.

It comes with timer for 8 feedings up to 90 secs. It is 6 volt operation. It will sling corn 50 feet or pellets 35-40 with most landing 20 feet or more. Basically no food lands within first five feet, nice if you have to mount away from shoreline. Keep in mind this unit is designed for food no bigger than 1/4 inch.

I will sell them to PB subscribers for $60. Bruce they also have a poly barrel hopper ready to go, It is sold as directional deer feeder right now but only differnece is labels. It holds 150 lbs of fish food. I will sell to anyone here for $115. 6 volt battery seperate for $15.

It appears Aquapro folks responded already.

Thanks for the updated info Greg. I'll probably be buying one from you sometime in the spring/summer.... as long as plans don't change.

Thanks Again!

I'll let Shawn Banks sell it to you since your in his neck of the woods. Thanks and hope all goes as planned. Shawn you owe me,

My biggest question is how will it perform with feeds the size of Aquamax 500 and 400. I plan on feeding a lot of these smaller sizes in 2008 and don't really have a plan for what feeder I'll be using. I'm going to need about four of them, so I really don't want to be buying expensive units for these little ponds. Thanks everybody for helping work this out.

By the way, I think this kind of thread is Pond Boss Forum at it's best. If I didn't have the forum, my only avenue would be to call the manufacturer, in which case I might be skeptical about their claims. When I've got someone like Greg Grimes who has a great reputation for integrity and who is willing to even test the unit himself, I can then enter into a business transaction with much more confidence.

I, as a Newbie, am very happy with this type of exchange, major Kudos to PondBoss. I cannot feed every evening, or even morning as I still have to travel to make the $$$$$$$ to feed the ichys.........keep it coming!!!

Bruce they are very clear it is not good for food larger than 1/4" what is size of aqumax 500? I do not sell it. thanks. I too am looking forward to trying out this feeder.