28BYJ-48 driven Fish Feeder

**Update: 6/16/18** Ok so I got a new set of 28BYJ-48 steppers since I suspected my old ones were weaker than normal. The new ones do seem to have more torque and are resulting in fewer jams. I also tried running them at 9v instead of 5v which seemed to help eliminate jamming even more. But what made the biggest difference was adding a mount for our tank. We have a cheap 30gallon tank with a really flimsy plastic LED hood that has a 62mm x 23mm opening for feeding. So I just made a little mount that replaces the end cap on the feeder fits in there holding the feeder at a slight angle.

That angle seems to have solved most of the jamming issues. In fact I switched back to 5v and while it did jam once going through an entire container of food it cleared itself the next cycle. I've run a full container of food through it 2-3 times now and it only jammed up 2 or 3 times and cleared itself the next cycle on all of those. (I'm still running my test script that runs a dispensing cy