Dry rock cycle

[lpsreefer]

I did mine a little differently.
For my rock I had roughly 150 pounds of live rock in my system, then I added 204 pounds of dry rock.
I had roughly 2-3 days of higher ammonia. it went away and I had no algae issues.
My fish and corals did Great.

In about 2 weeks I'm adding another 400+ pounds right into the display.
As I have been doing tests with the rock. I'm am very impressed on how little it takes to cycle.
With live rock and/or water from your display.


If your starting 100% fresh.
It takes about 3-5 days for the ammonia to really kick in then 9-11 days for the bacteria to kick in and then eat up all the ammonia.
Once the ammonia level hits 0.
Your good to go put it in your display in my opinion.
I'll try to get some pics of mine up this weekend.