I would only add that fishes don't need to be fed three times a day (like many food container's suggest), unless you are raising fry.
I feed fishes once a day or every other day, and they are fine with this and have been fine over their often suggested lifespan's in literature,expierience.
Less organic input is needed for the fishes/shrimps to thrive than is often thought by many.
Another benefit to less food's being offered is that fishes that might not normally forage along the bottom will do so once they are de-programmed that food's will not be coming thee or four times a day.
This also result's in less organic matter goin into the fishes and comin out = less nitrogenous waste.
Have seen little evidence that inorganic mineral salt KNO3 alone is harmful at even EI level's.
It is the process of organic matter being broken down first into ammonia, and then nitrites, that does the most harm with respect to nitrate's and most level's suggested as harmful from literature I have read ,are not readily seen in most well maintained aquarium's.
I feed fishes once a day or every other day, and they are fine with this and have been fine over their often suggested lifespan's in literature,expierience.
Less organic input is needed for the fishes/shrimps to thrive than is often thought by many.
Another benefit to less food's being offered is that fishes that might not normally forage along the bottom will do so once they are de-programmed that food's will not be coming thee or four times a day.
This also result's in less organic matter goin into the fishes and comin out = less nitrogenous waste.
Have seen little evidence that inorganic mineral salt KNO3 alone is harmful at even EI level's.
It is the process of organic matter being broken down first into ammonia, and then nitrites, that does the most harm with respect to nitrate's and most level's suggested as harmful from literature I have read ,are not readily seen in most well maintained aquarium's.
