Actually I have the same one; just throw it hard at the surface and it should sink
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Anyone else's sinking food float?
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Might be unless they used to sell a sinking jumbo formula, here's mine from last summer
Hmmm, Doesn't look familiar. That might be a newer formula. I haven't sold for them in a long while. I don't recognize the label.
A breeder whom I got some fish from got me to try Paradigm fish food. I like that it comes in really big pieces so that I can break off the size that I want (from really big to really small for my juvies). The bigger pieces sink right to the bottom but if I break it up a lot then it floats so my fish that eat from the top get some too 
For tanks that have overflows and sumps... the simple solution is to make yourself a floating feeding ring.... if some of the pellets don't sink right away, no problem, they won't float towards the overflow.
Just take a pair of scissors to a piece of 1 inch closed-cell foam. Cut out a rectangular frame about 10 or 12 inches across, with frame thickness around 1 or 2 inches.
Replace it every year or so... cheap and easy.
This is what I do.
Just take a pair of scissors to a piece of 1 inch closed-cell foam. Cut out a rectangular frame about 10 or 12 inches across, with frame thickness around 1 or 2 inches.
Replace it every year or so... cheap and easy.
This is what I do.
I tried the feeding ring before and when you drop the pellets in the center of the ring, the floating ones just drop down a few inches and float right back up, ending up on the outside of the ring. I can see it working if you gently lay them in the ring.
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I made mines out of airline tubing. Just connected both ends to each other using a small airline barb fitting i had laying around.
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I had the same issue, so I made mine a double ring. I guess you can make a triple ring if double isn't enough.
I would say that about 80% of my "sinking" pellets actually sink.
One of my biggest pet peeves is watching a perfectly good pellet get sucked into my overflows. The double ring holds most of them, except for when the wide-bars hit the surface extra hard.
