[Jacob]

Frozen foods are out of the question? Are they ignored, is that they pollute the water, or are they inadequate nutritionally?
Combining prepared and live foods is not a successful method?
BTW has someone out there made the simplest possible method of hatching baby artemia, I’ve done that a million times but I want the most easy, automated way to do it so that is is almost effortless. Since baby artemia seems like the smartest staple, the eggs are always available and it is really nutritious. It’s not like it’s that hard or time consuming to use an inverted plastic bottle and siphon out the hatched artemia, but why not perfect the laziest way possible to raise them?
Sounds like worms as a second food are a good idea, worms are probably on the easy side of culturing and maintaining a large amount of them at all times. I don’t know that from experience, except blackworms, but the issue of being able to depend on their availability and survival seems to be good and also fish are said to love worms and get huge benefits from eating them.
My tank has little “copepods” swimming in it, I hope the large amount of wood and plant matter will sustain a big population and there will be real benefit from it.