lights out?

[Aere]

how many of you do a lights out period, and if so how often and for how long? Have a little hair algae and diatom bloom happening after about 5 months of running.

 

[tennisstudrogie]

I did a 3-day lights out a few months after getting my tank set up. Really helped with my cyano problem.

 

[Aere]

did you have fish and corals? just wanna make sure they will all be ok.

 

[wickedfish]

Pics of your tank problem may be another option.??

 

[Six2seven]

Yea I would try to solve the problem a different way. Later, when you have a lot of corals you won't be able to go lights out

 

[captain obsessions]

Clean up crew

 

[Aere]

Sorry was out building my canopy, I will post pics of the issue in the morning. But yea i prolly need to add to the CUC.

 

[Reefing8EZ]

Check phosphate! If u need i have a hanna phos tester you can borrow.
And add GFO if needed.. HTH!

 

[Aere]

i will take you up on that hanna, but gfo is coming in tomorrow

 

[Reefing8EZ]

i will take you up on that hanna, but gfo is coming in tomorrow

Cool, i got some GFO too if you need..

 

[james-lee]

I had really thick mats of cyano on my rocks and sand bed. It was so bad my corals started closing. After I got my two wp40s I did a strict lights out with NO feeding. I was so tempted to peek at my tank in those 3 days but I didn't. I skimmed wet the whole time and used a filter sock which I changed out every day for the 3 days. I am now cyano free. Checked phos and I'm at .25 (used to be at .50) so I plan on getting a gfo reactor some day.

 

[Surgical]

how many of you do a lights out period, and if so how often and for how long? Have a little hair algae and diatom bloom happening after about 5 months of running.

Its more of a band aid really... You should determine why it happened in the first place. Adding too much too soon? Inadequate nutrient export? Is your source water free of tds? Etc.
Lights out will help for the time but if you don't fix the cause its just gonna come right back