lights off

My tank has been running two weeks now with live rock live sand. Yesterday I added three chromis abs was given two soft corals (sinularia & Xenia) I’ve read that during the cycle I should keep my lights turned off….but will these two corals die if I keep the light of for a month?

I try to look at my tank at night when everything is off because that’s when everything comes out, I saw these crawling all over my frags of zoas one of them is kind of fluorescent with I did not like because dosent that mean it’s eating my zoas? But they just look like pods of some sort to me...

Tonight I ran into, without question, one of the strangest things I ever have in all my days keeping fish. I recently finished adding my fish back to the DT after a long fallow period for ich. They’ve been back about two weeks, and tonight I cut the lights off a little early to acclimate a new...