I sorta forgot to mention the reason I would prefer sinking pellets is because I have a male red devil who wont take floating pellets, so I was hoping to kill 2 birds one stone with food?
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My Tiger and Red that size "crave" the 6MM Thera + NLS to any other pellet that I have used. It seems to be an "ideal" size of the NLS line to me. My 11" Lemon Oscar freaks over it even more than the other two do, so it is not too big for the red devil I would imagine either.
Yes, my olfactory sense is in perfect order. With that said, I do so love garlic, and I do detect a very faint, but IMO pleasant scent of garlic. Be forewarned. You could always go the regular (non thera) formula. They eat it as well as most anything, but some of the non Oscar tankmates are more finicky and they do not have the attractant value that seems to drive fish to frenzy on pellet.
I do try to "mix it up" for the benefit of the tiny mouth on the jailbird in the tank. The Oscars are luke warm with Extreme 3mm sinking pellets or bulk less expensive 45% protein 3mm sinkers that round off for the two tinfoil barbs (that also shred the 6mm there sinkers).
My only problem with NLS is the $$$.
I would love to use it for the O. aureus project, but even for the extreme small scope the math is staggering. One hundred fingerlings with a collective insatiable appetite for pellet destruction. At the standard 1:1 ratio (pound of feed per pound of meat) in the ~8 - 9 month non winter seasonal growout, with focus on quick growth to maximize fillet size. Wow.
Top side math 100 X 10lb (unobtainable in 9 months, but not too far off) = 1,000 pounds of feed I will require.
Extreme low end 100 x 5lb = 500 pounds of feed I will require. (per 100 fingerlings!)
I couldn't see buying one hundred 5 pound buckets of NLS to accommodate it.
I
might do a test and take one of the 300G Rubbermaid stock tanks and isolate it in the grow out from the other 300 & 100 stock tanks, mark it for feed only NLS! (grow to start --> large).
The others I will use a bulk rate high protein feed and measure growth rates on all and record the results.
