What is a "matured" reef tank?

[mrhasan]

Originally Posted by iamfrontosa

I think mature in terms of biological filtration. Maintaining the big three is easy in my opinion.

I completely forgot to write about bio filtration, good point!

Using cured live rock would address that plus there are products out there that works great. If you wait for a year and then suddenly dump 1 fish per 10 gallon of water volume, the parameters will get thrown off no matter how long you wait for the tank to mature but then again, I may be wrong. To grow biological filtration, adding inhabitants slowly over time makes more sense (to me) than waiting for the arbitrary maturing time.