That's how I got into dripping kalk again, but I'm not really sure the kalk helped solve the problem, I'm thinking if it has any effect at all it's more along the lines of preventative thing rather than a cure.
My BTA's weathered the lights-out period just fine actually. I was nervous about it, that's why I didn't last the whole week of lights-out that I had planned for originally.
My advice; consider giving it a shot... Watch the anemone and if it starts to give you heebie-jeebies then turn them back on. Odds are pretty good it's going to get some ambient light from the outside anyways so I think it will be fine. Or if you're really worried, pull it out and keep it in a 10g or a 20g for a week while the main tank is in the week of perpetual night.
I feel your pain. I too was ready to give up. Just weeks and weeks and weeks and that horrible stuff just wouldn't die no matter what I tried. Touch wood it's been about 6 months now and it hasn't come back since the lights-off thing.
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My next hobby will be flooding my basement while repeatedly banging my head against a brick wall and tearing up $100 bills. Whee!
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