I don't know why your results were different. I still have not fed mine. It has been about three months. They are still alive. When you last posted about your trial, I checked on mine. There were several that were diseased and all had empty feed bars. I closed the game without doing anything to them. When I opened it today, the ones that were diseased are still diseased and the feed bars were still empty. As I said, I had all three tanks full of fish. The only ones that survived were all the fish in the seahorse tank. Sorry it didn't work for you, But I wish I had one of each magic fish in that tank!!!