Yeah half my water surface is completely choked up with vegetation. As for the mussels, I've heard that before but never actually seen it so I can't advise
Yesterday was a big day I found out my ABF will take food from my hand, my newly bought pearlscale died from parasites (found 6 large enough to be visible). I took the fish back to the shop and they gave a half price refund, so I bought some melafix (or something like that)
Looks good! As far as feeding goes. I've got know idea! I really feed as much as I can cram into the thing in case the next time I feed it only gets 1 pellet