My Suppliers.

If your in Providence and looking for a great fish shop I suggest AquaLife on wickenden street. I believe that this is the best shop in the state, especially for freshwater fish. I'm not into to salt water fish but from what i can tell they only carry fish that have a successful track record. But freshwater fish is definately their thing. The aquatic plant selection is fair enough. In fact if you are not satisfied with the plants it's probably because your at the point where you should be ordering them online. The selection of food is the next strongest part of the store for me. Not only do they carry a huge variety of dry goods and a fair amount of frozen foods but also 6 kinds of live foods. Two of which are fish, which i'm meh about. The rest are blackworms, tubifex worms, brine shrimp and ghost shrimp(though ghosts kinda count as pets so). Hard tack is good as well. Good selection of filters and replacement parts, tanks and subsrtates. Decorations are 50/50, lots of natural materials like driftwood and stones but sorely lacking in the artificial side of things. You always see the owners and they always have advice for you. Four star rating.
http://www.aqualifecentral.com

I also use Repashy Super foods purchased from Invertebrates by Msjinkzd. Rachel is an independant importer of nano fish and shrimps. Great person to order from, orders always show up on time and progress is quickly updated. The repashy food i get from her is a gel food you mix at home. The food once mixed is stable in the tank for 24 for hours or so and allows the fish to browse naturally throughout the day. I'm using this for the first time inthe rearing of paradise fry and the fry are definatly growing twice as fast as they did last year. All the fish seem to have a preference for the Soilent Green. http://msjinkzd.com/

During the summer I grow most live foods i use in a bucket in the backyard. I pretty much find a pond scoop up some pond mud and leaf litter and toss it in the bucket and harvest what grows. I also grow my own squashes and what not tp feed the herbaceous fish. During the winter i also grab a bag of frozen prawns, thawed and crushed any size fish can take it. I also am not afraid to get decaying leaves into the tank, not only for the natural look but also for the infusoria that grow. I feel these little guys eat  disease organisms or at least compete with them for resources.