Pond Boss Forums Thread Like Summary - Purina Aquamax Sportfish MVP Date Code

Looking for advice/feedback. Picked up 20 bags of special order Purina Aquamax MVP at my local CoOp today, 2/25/26. Born on date of the feed is August 29, 2025. This is based on a date code on the bags of 25241. Production day was the 241'st day of 2025.

I have my CoOp purchasing agent discussing the date code issue with his Purina contacts, they sell a lot of Purina animal feed. We will not use up these 20 bags until July. When I purchase Cargil Triton 4512 I have no quality or freshness issues but have had picking & shipping errors out of the Louisiana warehouse.

Will need to begin light feed throwing in a few weeks here in Tennessee. What worries me is I don't know the conditions it has been stored in for 6 months. Bags look normal, feed looks normal.

Thanks, Mike

It will be interesting to see what you find out. Feed degrades over time, vitamins lose potency, etc. Normal shelf life is 12 months, but I've fed feed that was 2-3 years old. The fish didn't seem to know the difference, but since I am not a production facility, I don't typically keep tabs on FCR, etc.

A supplier that raises trout said they had to switch suppliers 2 years ago. Same feed supplier, supposedly same food but their FCR's dropped roughly 15% and the price of the food actually went up $1/bag. It was a big enough change that they had to cancel a few fish contracts.

Many forum members here last year ordered Endurance and were happy.