Information on algae cleaning, lighting, algae growth, fish sleeping, ornament and plant cleaning, live plants, driftwood, breeding, fry care, tearing down setups, health and quarantining, vacationing, and the secrets of pantyhose were moved to their own pages. Go to the main fish page to link to their new locations. Pellets exist for larger fish like goldfish and cichlids.
Wafers are for bottom feeders like many catfish.
To be sure that the fish get proper nutrition, provide a number of different types and kinds of food. They get many kinds of flakes and freeze dried foods. Sometimes, I feed newborn live brine shrimp, adult brine shrimp, and frozen foods. I rotate about six kinds of foods for the goldfish including various goldfish flakes and pellets. When I have fry around or feel like giving them a treat, I hatch baby brine shrimp for all the fish except the goldfish and plecostomus who will not eat them.