reeferdude
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I just started school recently and I haven’t had as much time as I did during the summer to micro manage my tanks. In one of my tanks the brown algae had gotten out of control so since I didn’t have any fish in it I just turned the light off and left it off for about 2 weeks and all of the algae was gone! Well I have another ten gallon with the worst outbreak I have ever seen (even on the rocks and the floating thermometer!!!) Would it be safe to just leave the lights off till I can get some snails? Will this have any adverse effects on my fish????? The only thing I could think of is that if I had any coral line on the rocks it would die, but alas the brown has already killed it all.
