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Old 20-04-2003, 07:17 AM
Jason Judkins
 
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Default Leaving off hte lights

Leaving the lights off for a day won't really do anything to your algae...
and your plants wont hurt at all (again, only if this is just for a day)...
BUT, take this into consideration... If you leave your lights off, your
plants will tend to grow toward the greatest source of light.. (I.e. ambient
room light outside the tank)... So if you do leave your lights off for a
24hr period, your plants might have a new tilt to them

However, I might say again that turning your lights off wont really help
your algae problem. (in the long term it would, but you dont want to leave
your lights off for the long term.

I would suggest altering your water chemistry first... or possibly
introducing a few snails, and maybe a couple more plecos or loaches.

"Stuart Mueller" wrote in message
. ..
I was just wondering what the effect of leaving off the lights for a day

or
so was on the plants.

Some of the cures for algae are to leave the lights off, but what effect
does this have on the plants? at present my lights are on for about 13hrs

a
day?

Stu