Battles with Algae

I kept the fish tank in the dark from June 18-24 and the algae seems to have abated a little in my 55 gallon. (Luckily there are no plants in there!) Since then, I have switched the light timer to an eight hour on cycle, so that the tank is now lit from 1:00PM - 9:00PM. There's definitely still algae in the tank, but it seems to be a little less rampant anyway. We'll see how it goes.

Water Change on June24

I forgot to write this up at the time, but I did change 18 gallons of the 55 gallon tank on June 24. All the fish seem healthy thus far.

Water Change

I did a water change the night before last -- changed 24 gallons. I still haven't had a chance to test the water, but everything seems fine. Algae is still a problem, so I might try to focus on eliminating that. Maybe since there are no plants I will try a prolonged blackout. Otherwise the aquarium seems to be chugging along.