Ammonia and Nitrites read zero (wet test, not strips).

Unless it was a La Motte kit I woldn't pay much attention to them.

Actually, I don't know. The sunfish, bass and catfish they catch down at
the Lake here are well fleshed. In summer they're actually quite heavy.

With eggs. Now, lok at fish caught in the Orinoco year round.

There are all kinds of things in the foods I use. Fish meal is listed
first. The shrimp snack they sometimes get is 100% dried shrimp.

The problem with fish meal is it's not what fish eat. They eat worms
and crustaceans. Pure fish flesh is not what they eat, they eat whole fish;
ones, scales, stuff in the gut.

I have no access to white worms and can't afford to feed this many fish live
foods, even if I could find a place that sells them locally. They used to
carry clean tubafex worms and brine shrimp but no more. They all went over
to frozen foods.

You can dulture worms and daphnica very very easily. And you can't beat
the price.

I'll cut back to once a day and see if that helps. If not then I'll start
to skip days. The problem with keeping goldfish hungry is they start to
destroy the plants.

Let them! With proper fertilization and light you should be able to outgrow
their intake. if not add more plants. I have a few tanks I don't bother
feeding at all because the fish eat the plants or eatbugs that grow in the
tanks.

The Flourish Excel arrived today and I added it about an hour ago. Both of
the 55g tanks had massive water changes yesterday and the day before. The
new AC filter also arrived. The black-crud tank will have 2 ACs now. That
may help as well.

How massive?

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