Okay, I should have asked that first. I'm not sure how long it takes to cure, never done it myself. I almost didn't think of that. I don't really see un-cured rock for sale in my area. I would say stop adding stability, stop doing water changes and wait it out. You aren't just cycling you are curing the live rock. Do some reading on curing live rock and you should get an idea of what you are looking at for time.
A normal cycle will see amonia go up first. Then as amonia comes down nitrite will go up. Then you are waiting on nitrite to come back down.
The problem is the rock is not cured and will have a lot of die off. So you are waiting for all of the dead bacteria and organisms to rot off and stop producing amonia before the rest of the cycle can really stabalise. Or at least that is my understanding from what I have read.
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72g bowfront, t5.
29g JBJ nano cube, ATI 26HD.
Livestock: clown fish, chromis, coral beauty.
Corals: Toadstool, maze brain, candy cane, mushrooms (purple & green hairy), button polyps, green zoas, GSP.
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