O.K stupid question: what are your goals with putting the redear in the tanks? And forgive if that's been covered and I missed it.
Feed training? Growth over winter and feed training is not the primary goal? Seems if it's the former, feeding live or expensive frozen feeds is counterproductive. Or perhaps you are working toward training on artificial feed by feeding the live feed, then frozen, then freezedried, then pellets?
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If pigs could fly bacon would be harder to come by and there would be a lot of damaged trees.
