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I'm also finding the 500 to be light in color when compared to previous (last year's) product.
"Forget pounds and ounces, I'm figuring displacement!"
If we accept that: MBG(+)FGSF(=)HBG(F1)
And we surmise that: BG(>)HBG(F1) while GSF(<)HBG(F1)
Would it hold true that: HBG(F1)(+)AM500(x)q.d.(=)1.5lbGRWT?
PB answer: It depends.
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AQ500 on left, the new stuff on right.  It's curious. At first, my fish wouldn't eat it. HBG, native BG, nothing. They were trying to, but would pick a "pellet" and reject it...I watched a northern BG pick up and spit out the same piece of this feed six times before giving up. Interest in the feed was immediate, but what I'm calling the "mouth feel" just didn't seem to be what they expected. Finally, I resorted to hydrating the feed....man alive what a difference. I have witnessed the most aggressive feeding responses over the last 4-5 days, that I've ever personally experienced. The northern BG are literally boiling the water to get this stuff. I'm currently feeding twice the amount than I do with AQ, and they would eat more, but I'm shutting them off every night. After feeding last night they of course wanted more, so I fed unhydrated AQ500. Nada. They would swim up and inspect, and them pass. I fed more of the hydrated new feed, and the water rolled. To be fair, the hydration quality may be the deciding factor. I have always been a huge fan of feeding softened feed, but have gotten away from the practice this past couple years. I need to hydrate some AQ and do a head-to-head. Also, the LMB and HSB don't feed on it very well, at least for me. I feed them AQ. The YP seem to have no problems. And last but not least, my HBG are slow to accept it. They're beginning to feed better, but not nearly as well as the northern BG do. I'm going through this stuff real quick. Cannot seem to get enough on the water to satisfy the fish. The "worm" looking feed looks that way because that is how it comes directly out of the extruder. The extruder compresses the feed using a screw and squirts it out an extruder plate with holes the size of the feed you see on the right. Then a rotating cutter is set to cut to the approximate length. That is information I gained years ago watching a portable soybean extruder working at a farm show. How they get the AQ fish pellets round I don't know but my guess would be that after it comes out an extruder it goes into a tumbler while the feed is still hot (extruding creates tremendous heat) and tumbles it round. Maybe someone involved in the feed business can give a better explanation. My fish seem to like the AQ500 after eating only 32% or 36% feed previously.
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If you look closely at the AM feed, you can see that it's still a "tube" shape, just cut about as long as it is wide.
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Locally available is Zeigler Silver and the G, which may be Gold.
HBG scarf it down without hydration, and the ones that sink, the FHM clean up really well.
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We have been using Aquamax for years now, both the 500 and 600, but our dealer said that he could no longer get it, no possible dates in the future were given to him, so we had to switch to the Game Chow. Still a good food I suspect ( still expensive, albeit not as much as the real thing ) but I have noticed a distinct last of oder compared to the other stuff, it was very "fishy" smelling....this stuff....not so much. We are way out in the Ozarks of MO and have very limited dealerships available to us within driving range, but when I called the only "city" to speak of 120 miles away, they told me the same thing. Wish the news was better, sorry....
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