3 cory catfish

2 angle fish  

3 hatchet

9 tetras

You named some good foods, and I also suggest that you go into the "Pinned Topics" section.  In there is a topic on fish food where you can get a great idea of all the amazing variety out there.

Right now, I'm feeding my invert/tetra tank Hikari Micro Pellets, TetraMin tropical flakes, cyclops, mosquito larvae, tubifex worms, daphnia, and brine shrimp (all but the first two in frozen form).

If you ever see a food you don't know about, just google it!  You'll get info on it and some brands that supply it.

Thing is, I don't want to grow them and I absolutely don't want any thing coming in with it (i.e. copepods).

Does anyone know some good companies/places that stock daphnia in southern California (specifically the San Gabriel Valley area of Los Angeles)?

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Uhm, there's a company called San Francisco Bay Brand that produces good stuff too. I know it's available here (NC) and I'm assuming that since it's San Francisco Bay Brand it'll be marketed in California. ;]

I always buy the frozen varieties.

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When you pick up a product - look at the content menu - the order in which it reads is the order of priority of the ingredients. Hikari and Omega - for example - list fresh salmon first  with other quality fish meat - then the fillers are listed down the line - companies like Topfin list vir. all products with the fish meal - which is basically a filler with little or no value to your aquapuppy - use products low in fat where possible -

Stay away from Tubliflex *** there are some disease issues related to their nurturing in sewage waters - Hikari has an excellant patented drying process for its Krill etc -

Nikita mentioned frozen food - if you are not as yet - into the swing of your feeding habits -  - I would suggest adding that in your regiment later with experience - You have to take care not to thaw and then to refreeze these prepared products and be careful of how long you keep your frozen products - in fact, I date all the product that I buy - all fish product for food is refrig., and the maximum hold time - I use - is 4 months and then the remaining is thrown out.

 Although yur name infers "catfish" you do not mention what fish you have - try to stay away from flakes -

With Goldies - I have 8 tanks with which each is hand fed under the surface of the water.  I have a unique style of prep - I use a pill crusher to pulverize the choices for that day - throw in a natural microwaved couple of skinned peas for ruffage and moisture - and mush it till I have a firm paste which I divy up into small servings - staying in this habit allows me to observe any deviation in appetite and vary widely the types of food that I use - as well; be able to incorporate any  medicine , into the paste - for a specific individual fish - if needed.

using the pill grinder adds a side benifit - it opens the door to use floating or sinking foods - , at times adding cantaloupe or banana which supplies the moisture to mush the powder together - Golds especially go wild over small pieces of strawberries and bananna - or Krill - with some Hikari blood worms thrown in as a dressing of sorts -

One last point - you commented you liked to watch the feeding frenzy - ie daphnia - here is somethin g fun to try - clean a pill/small prescription bottle and use one that has a cap that presses down to lock - around the edge and the top of the cap - make numerous abrasive lines/gouges that penetrate slightly into the plastic but do not go thru the cap. Clean off the residual plactic shards - - place some small stones in the bottle and seal the top = -get some Hikari freeze dried blood worms - slightly moisten them and press the worms into the scarified areas you made in the cap - yuou can be messy the fish do not mind -  - Now - place the bottle in the water top down - the stones you added will keep the top submerged while the bottle floats - once your fish locate this floating treasure chest - well - the excitment begins-

When this is done with Goldfish they soon realize that there is a certain part of the cap that may be sticking out of the water with food on it - they will proceed to rotate the bottle to bring that section of the cap under the water.

Eric