Great topic. I was thinking about starting a thread about something very similar before I saw this one. Mine was going to go something like this.

Since switching to Aquamax feed I have noticed the the BG have lots of fat deposits in their gut when cleaning them. It is like you can't even see the intestine through all the fat. Once feeding halts for the winter will some of that fat be converted to muscle/length or will it just be burned as maintenance energy?

I'm sure that body condition (RW) going into the winter would be another variable in this discussion.


Does the name Pavlov ring a bell?