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09-15-2008, 05:02 AM
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When you mention cycle, are you referring to curing of the rock?? If so, I didnt do any water changes for the 2 months I cured my rock...It would depend on the size of the tank as well...I read somewhere that "the solution to pollution is dilution"...My pounds of live rock to gallons of water was about 0.85:1...
Just make sure you have a kick butt skimmer to get rid of the garbage...
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09-15-2008, 05:14 AM
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I did water changes twice a day for 2 weeks when I started my rock...but then I was more interested in keeping the critters that make the the rock "live rock" alive then getting ammonia readings.
When you buy "live rock" all the bacteria necessary to complete the nitrate cycle are already in place. Our job is to wait for all the dead stuff inside the rock to finish decaying and polluting the water, then we need to remove the pollution before algae takes over. It worked for me anyways, I've cured 4 batches of live rock and the nitrates have always reached 0 in about 3 weeks *edit* Here's an interesting read http://forum.marinedepot.com/Topic23945-9-1.aspx Last edited by marie; 09-15-2008 at 05:21 AM. Reason: added link
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