My pond has RES & SMB. I hand feed the RES daily with softened food & am acustomed to seeing a couple of small SMB taking pellets. About a month ago the SMB numbers increased to more than a dozen from 6" to prob. 12". There are always several larger SMB hanging around with all the excitement of a feeding frenzy going on so yesterday I made a pellet apx 3/4" in diameter & tossed it out. A big SMB hit it hard! Repeated tosses had all the larger SMB fighting for the food. Same thing today.
I thought they had to be trained from fry to take fish food. Is my experience as unusual as I think?
The food I am mashing to make big pellets sinks. I was thinking of getting some Aqumax LM food to make it easier to feed the larger SMB. Does the LM food float? Do you think they will eventually take floating food?

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