The Design

As shown in the proposed fish feeder timer controller circuit, N1, N2 and N3, N4
are the four NAND gates from the IC 4093, configured as flip flop timer stages.
N1, N2 forms the 7 second delay timer, the period may be adjusted and set with
the help of the 1M pot, identically N3, N4 is wired up as the second 5.2 second
delay generator stage.
IC 4060 is designed as the 24 hour timer circuit for the required cycling of the
desired time sequences.
When the circuit is powered, the 0.1uF capacitors at the inputs of N1 and N3
ground the respective inputs via the 100k resistors, rendering a negative latch
across gate outputs, which in turn keep transistor relay driver switched OFF.
Now, for initiating the circuit the "start" button is pressed which reverts the gate
latches to positive switching ON the relays simultaneously. This condition forces
pin12 of IC 4060 to become high so that it stays disabled for the time being.
As per the proposed settings of the 1M pots, after about 5 minutes the capacitor
at the N3 output charges up first forcing the N4 input to go high which yet again
restores the latch to negative switching off the 5 second relay first, exactly in the
same manner N2 relay follows and gets switched OFF after next 2 seconds.
The above situation causes the output of N2 and the input of N1 to go "low"
which means now pin12 of IC 4060 is enabled at the required "low" allowing it to
begin its counting until the stipulated 24 hour time is elapsed, when its pin3 goes
high causing an automatic triggering of the above explained cycle.
The process now keeps repeating indefinitely as long as the aquarium feeder
circuit is held in the powered state.