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Old 09-07-2014, 03:18 PM
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Originally Posted by iceman86 View Post
Yes some might fade or even brown a bit but it will come back pretty quick.

When I transferred tanks I ran into some problems and had my corals (90%sps) in the holding bin without light for 7 days. Nothing died but some faded, after a few weeks it all came back to where it was.
You can kill your corals much faster with too much light than with too little. I've done 3 dark days at a time, twice a month before; my tank never looked better. Don't know why I stopped, actually. I think it was that I didn't like not seeing the tank for 3 days. Maybe 2 would have been enough...
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