I usually just soak my pellets in water and then they will sink.
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Jumbo sinking fish food
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I usually just soak my pellets in water and then they will sink.
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I agree with this, but from how PacuMom explained it, I think she just dissolves them very shortly in boiling water rather than cooking them over a larger period of time, so it should be ok.
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No cooking of the pellets. The agar agar is dissolved in boiling water and then added to the mixture of pond pellets and NLS pellets. The agar agar makes the pellets stick together
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Agar agar gels at room temp...it's the stuff used in petri dishes to culture stuff in labs
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Made up another batch of jumbo food.
Pond pellets and NSL pellets
Added enough dissolved agar agar in water to make it soupy.
The agar agar sets up at room temperature, so it doesn't take long for the mix to look like this:
Ready to flatten out
Flattened out to 1/2" thick
Some of the pieces are 1" x 1" x .5" -- jumbo fish food for jumbo fish
The jumbo sinking food works extremely well--as long as we don't grossly overfeed them and the mechanical filtration isn't off for 12 hours. BTW, we finally got the generator working (it needed another wire--had to get an expert out here) and it kicks on within seconds of the power going off. The fish now have filtration and heat even when the main part of the house is cold and dark during a power outage.
Pond pellets and NSL pellets
Added enough dissolved agar agar in water to make it soupy.
The agar agar sets up at room temperature, so it doesn't take long for the mix to look like this:
Ready to flatten out
Flattened out to 1/2" thick
Some of the pieces are 1" x 1" x .5" -- jumbo fish food for jumbo fish
The jumbo sinking food works extremely well--as long as we don't grossly overfeed them and the mechanical filtration isn't off for 12 hours. BTW, we finally got the generator working (it needed another wire--had to get an expert out here) and it kicks on within seconds of the power going off. The fish now have filtration and heat even when the main part of the house is cold and dark during a power outage.
Made up another batch of jumbo food.
Pond pellets and NSL pellets
Added enough dissolved agar agar in water to make it soupy.
The agar agar sets up at room temperature, so it doesn't take long for the mix to look like this:
Ready to flatten out
Flattened out to 1/2" thick
Some of the pieces are 1" x 1" x .5" -- jumbo fish food for jumbo fish
The jumbo sinking food works extremely well--as long as we don't grossly overfeed them and the mechanical filtration isn't off for 12 hours. BTW, we finally got the generator working (it needed another wire--had to get an expert out here) and it kicks on within seconds of the power going off. The fish now have filtration and heat even when the main part of the house is cold and dark during a power outage.
Is that the largest the NLS Pellets get?
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