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Koi-Lo wrote:
I have no room to culture what I would need for this many fancy goldfish and
the platys. I tried daphnia. I would need a small lake to raise enough to
use for fish food and they only multiplied in the spring - a period of about
a month, maybe 6 weeks. Larger GF don't even see daphnia. They ignore
them. Culture what kind of worms? I have a huge compost pile for the
garden and still can't harvest enough for more than an occasional snack for
them and that's only in the spring and fall.

White worms, earth worms, the smaller "red worms" not the giant nightcrawlers.

They will take a while to grow up to the mass you need but they will do it.

I think the lst time I bought fishfood was 1988. Anywhere that
sells bait has redworms.

What kind of plants would outgrow constant daily destruction?

Duckweed! Hornwort, water sprite. It's probbaly cheaper to set up a garage sale
20 wiht plants and stong light than to buy food.

All I left in the bottom was enough water to cover their backs. About a 92
to 94% water change. I also vacuumed every inch of the gravel *again* and
ran the DE filter for a few hours.

That's a good start, now hook the diatom filter back up and stir up the
gravel. Recharge the filter when it gets cloged, repeat. It may take
days of doing this but eventually it'll come clean.

You'll be amazed at how much crud is still down there. BTDT.


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