Ever periodically turn your lights off for couple days?

d2mini

Reef enthusiast
I was going through some reef central archives and found a thread about this. Supposedly it cuts down on the amount of algae that forms in the tank and on the glass between "lights out" sessions. I think they were doing it once every couple months or so. Tank seemed to really like it.
Kinda makes sense... it's not bright and sunny EVERY day out in the ocean.
What do you think?
 
Yeah I do it every once in a while. My little tank has its lights off right now.

I did it a lot when I had a cyano outbreak. It helped
 
If I get a algea break out I will put the lights out for a few days. This is a quick fix until I can find the problem.
 
Some days I just run my actinics.And every once in a while,I'll leaves the lights completely off.I have went as long as a week with the lights off.
 
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