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So different people get different prices?? Seems pretty weird.
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I've read about "lights out" or "low light" cycles that people will do for a couple of days to help with an algea problem.  What are your thoughts on this?  Does it harm corals or fish?  If it's a good idea, how would you suggest going about it, and what specifically would I do with regards to feeding and fuge lights?
 
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Originally posted by FIRE SHRIMP FIRE SHRIMP wrote:

So different people get different prices?? Seems pretty weird.


That's not what he said.

In the past Chad has sometimes given a discount at meetings because it's easier to plan ahead and order a whole bunch when he has ten people or more wanting snails etc. That's all. Basically a group discount.
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You can read the full story of how I used that technique here in the Feb 2002 SeaStar, titled Saving a Reef: http://www.utahreefs.com/SeaStar/wmasSeaStar02Feb.pdf

The cute readers digest version of that story is here: http://www.garf.org/ugly.html
 
Fish don't need light and they can go without food for a week or more without any problem. Stopping the feeding for 4 days and feeding half as much after that is actually a way to reduce algae because it eliminates the nutrients that feed algae and makes the fish hungy enough to eat the algae. 
 
The Actinic lights can be left on longer because that is the spectrum of light that coral need most and it does not grow nuisance algae so well. Refugium lights can be left on 24/7 for periods of time because that is where you want algae to grow so it does not grow as well in the main display.
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