New reef tank! 41 Gallon Fluval Osaka. Suggestions?

[Aysha]

you could always do a dry start. place your dry rock add a small amount of live rock presto! it's all live in a few weeks. Aqua Giant has great base rock for 1.99 a lb. I don't know if rock from shut downs is an issue? people have the same LR in their tank sometimes for 10 years at a time. Just a thought.

[Aquattro]

Originally Posted by Aysha

you could always do a dry start. place your dry rock add a small amount of live rock presto! it's all live in a few weeks.

Yup, you could do that, couple of weeks in and it's like live rock, only without the live part. And if the dry rock got dried with a ton of dead stuff, you might end up with some algae. Or a lot of algae.
Like someone mentioned in another thread, take advice here with a grain of salt.