At 12:00 AM 11/5/2004 -0500, you wrote:
>I think these have been available for about a year.  My question has always
>been...why would anyone buy them instead of the frame feeder made and sold
>by Brushy Mountain?  I own 50 of these and they are great!  No drowning,
>only take the place of one frame, and hold just short of 3 quarts.  They are
>$4.85 each, compared to $6 for the candibox feeder.
>
>Now, the candibox feeder claims to take the space of 2 frames, hold 2 frames
>AND 2 gallons of feed.  I flatly don't believe it!

Well, they arrived, but I don;t know exactly when I'll have time to put
them in. The plastic is thinner walled than division board feeders. I can't
speak to the Brushy Mountain ones (although I'd love to compare and report
on both).

Right now, I'm pondering in what shape the frame will be in after soaking
for several months.  Will the feed crystalize and lock in the frames? How
much will the feeder hold?  Will it take two frames width or more.

My answers are... I don't know yet, although it's pretty thin walled and
much more so than division feeders.  It may not take up more than two. I
figure there's room for 10 1/3 frames in my brood boxes.  That is a 1/3
width I have to play with.

I'll remember to measure capacity, and see what happens.

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