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Without adding a purposeful bacteria culture?

April 26, 2017bacteria culture purposeful

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Without adding a purposeful bacteria culture?

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Even so, I performed 20% water changes every three days or so for the first two weeks and we fed the fish sparingly. With each water change I’m siphoning out the water (and trying to clean gravel,) and then adding fresh tap water to which I’ve added a conditioner (to remove chlorine, give neutral ph, etc.) and the new water is temperature matched (around 67-68 degrees.) The tank is kept at room temperature and the thermometer strip always shows it’s between 66-68 degrees, so presumably it’s right at 67. Then I became concerned that we were actually slowing down the cycling of the tank, and let the water changes go for a week (while monitoring the water, which still registered no ammonia or nitrite.) My husband and son also fed a little more (but still flake food once a day, and only what they ate in a few minutes.) Then we suddenly had a lot of algae growth on the side of the tank nearest the light (which was on 12 hours a day every day,) and on the ornaments.