Cycling a tank

[sumpfinfishe]

I sure hope you mean by dead rock that its 100% cleaned and dried rock because if it was recent lr that was simply just dried, then this rock needs needs to cure in a sw bath to clean off all the die off.
Adding a few small pieces of lr or a few cups of live sand will kick stàrt the cycle bigtime or you could add a dirty filter from a friends tank if your really desperate.

[fooman]

I am going to use Marco dry rock and some base rock that is new. Was just thinking that i might be able to speed it up a bit . But i will just do it the right way the first time so i don't screw things up.