The automatic soak feeder attachment’s main body housing has two settings that are identified by the automatic soak feeder attachment’s main body housing power indicator lite setting one which provides food to the habitat chamber on a 12-hour cycle, or twice daily and the automatic soak feeder attachment’s main body housing power indicator lite setting two which provides food to the main habitat chamber on an 8-hour cycle, or three time daily.

     Either of the two scheduled automatic feeder settings can be activated by turning the automatic soak feeder attachment’s main body housing cap power indicator arrow which is located on top of the automatic soak feeder attachment’s main body housing cap to power indicator lite setting one or to power indicator lite setting two, respectfully, for the desired feeding schedule to be obtained.

     The optional soak feeder attachment main body housings of both soak feeders can be clipped onto, and rest upon, the box top top-off, water fill, additive, and feeding port which allows the aquarist to bypass pouring food directly into the main tank/habitat chamber containment area’s external filter system or corner box, (avoiding the locations of lights, filters and glass or acrylic tops), and add food directly into the main tank/habitat chamber containment area via the box top enclosure housing’s box top top-off, water fill, additive, and feeding port where they are cyclonically premixed by direct water injection via the box bottom cyclonic chamber’s supply-in pipe head release port where the food is spun and soaked prior to its release from the box bottom’s patented submerged front release port.

     By removing the optional soak feeder attachment main body caps from their associated soak feeder attachment main body housings it is then possible to pour food directly into the soak feeder attachment main body housing chambers, and with their optional soak feeder attachment main body housing paddles still in place until their main body housing chambers are full.

     Allow room for the re-seating of the optional manual soak feeder attachment main body cap or optional automatic soak feeder attachment main body housing cap.

     Referring back to the optional manual soak feeder attachment main body cap.

     Once the optional manual soak feeder attachment main body housing chamber is full, and the manual soak feeder attachment main body housing cap is replaced so that it clicks in place atop the manual soak feeder attachment main body housing paddles, the manual soak feeder attachment main body housing cap can be twisted back and forth, or rotated completely around 180 degrees, until the manual soak feeder attachment’s main body housing cap arrow returns back to its original indicator position as indicated on the attachment’s main body housing .

     The twisting action of both optional soak feeder attachment main body housing paddles dispenses a pre-measured serving of food from either of the optional soak feeder attachment’s main body housing food release ports  which are located in the bottoms of both optional soak feeders’ main body housings.

     Once the pre-measured food is released from optional soak feeder attachment main body housing holes the food enters, and then falls down, to follow the same path through the box filter w/ c.o.d. bottoms’ internal cyclonic pre-soak food and top-off water pre-release chamber before reaching the box filter w/ c.o.d. diffuser bottom’s submerged top-off, water fill, additive, and food pre-soak cyclonic chamber release port just as the added top-off fill water does prior to its release into the main tank/habitat chamber containment area.

     Added science: The swim bladder, or air bladder, is a buoyancy organ which most fish have. The swim bladder is located in the body cavity of the fish, and is derived from an out-pocketing of the digestive tube. This organ contains oxygen and functions similarly to a hydrostatic, or ballast.

     The organ also enables fish to maintain their depth within the main tank/habitat chamber containment area water column, without upward floating or the opposite, a slow sinking effect.

     By using the submerged soak feeder features of the Series-I BioTrap RedTop box filter w/ c.o.d. diffuser and cyclonic high flow bioskimmer, the aquarist can now reduce fluctuations in the buoyancy of their fish by eliminating the top water feeding habits which in many cases, causes the submerged feeding animals, (which normally feed mid-level or on the bottom), to gulp in excessive air when they are higher up in the water column and surface feeding. This extra air can then enter their bladders, become trapped, and cause buoyancy issues and stress.

     By submerging and pre-soaking any added food prior to its delivery into the main habitat area, and the food being offered out to these types of lower feeding creatures, the overall health and nourishment of the animals is better guaranteed.

     There is also the inherent benefit of having any food or additive which arrives pre-submerged into the main tank/habitat chamber containment area circulate down lower into the water column where most animals tend to feed. This being a much more practical application for feeding than having the food or additive float across the water column top surface where it can rapidly bypass the main tank/habitat chamber containment area altogether, and be introduced into top surface water skimmers, corner boxes, and/or other standard tank filters… -Nano