Esshup,
I'm glad you brought this up!
To alleviate some of those extra variables, the test diets are a 11/32" / 9mm round pellet. They are not mixed lengths. The trial is based of our bass 44/8 diet, which people are successfully feeding to a fairly wide range of species.
Participants are free to feed whatever species and with any technique they want. All we ask is everyone takes good notes and allows us to share the results openly. Optimal has never tried anything quite like this before, so depending on how this goes, we will hopefully do more open trials next season! I fully anticipate tweaking the process for future trials, so any thoughts on how to improve this platform is very welcome!
