Im still fed up with the algae,went to get my skimmer today hoping that will help with the algae and ofcourse better my tanks water anyways, and he was sold out again till next week. While I wait i decided to run a purigen bag on one of the ten hob filters I had left over from my african cichlid habit but I was told that this would help chemically skim my water until next week. Anyways I have read that a lot of people do the lights out technique to kill off a lot of the algae. I have read that some do it for twenty four hours and even some do it for three days. All I have in my tank is some GSP that came on some LR I bought and some xenia I bought from keys. Theres a couple fish and a cleaning crew in there aswell but I wouldn't think the light would effect them. I was would like to hear anybodies opinion on this technique and info on it like how long is recommended and if I should clean out the dead algae or leave it for food after.