Zoo Med Natural Sinking Mud & Musk Pellet Formulated Aquatic Turtle Food 10oz

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My local pet store and big box store all have discontinued turtle sinkers! I have 3 turtles and one is a Musk, which translates into him being a bottom feeder. Floating turtle pelletsare no good for that little man. I was so excited to find this product on Amazon and "Donkey" is once again a happy little bottom feeder in the tank!

The bottle is huge and has a lot of pellets in it!

If your turtle likes sinking pellets, these are great. My turtles prefer to eat from the surface, but the product does exactly what it advertises.

Having gone through one and one half of a container, I consider myself blessed if half the pellets I toss into my turtle's aquarium sink, fortunate if a third of them sink, and disappointed but not surprised if one or two pellets sink. Maybe I got a bad batch. I don't know. But this has been my experience.I suspect that temperature and humidity has something to do with the efficacy of the sinking, but I haven't pinned down any consistent rule. Regardless, I've never had any more than half of the pellets I've dropped into my aquarium sink to the bottom, which is a problem for a product marketed as "sinking" food. Most of it swells up and disintegrates at the water's surface, good for scavengers in stocked tanks, but terrible for maintenance in tanks with one or two turtles.My razorback musk turtle (the same breed pictured on the product label) eats the stuff that sinks, so it's not a terrible product by any means, but it didn't meet my expectation of a sinking food. I'd stick with wafers for something that sinks without issue.