Adding small amounts of cured rock to a system over an extended period of time is perfectly acceptable.You seem to be a person able to answer this. I'm planning my first reef and as such it has a lot of first time expenses with it. So it will probably go a bit slow but I'm in no real hurry. Every stage is exciting really. But anyway, I plan on setting up a plenum/dsb in my refugium as I start up the tank and cycling it so hopefully it will have an established bacterial filter after that. And I want to use good quality live rock from the ocean. But being a bit expensive I thought that I could add it over some time.
I have a few lfs from where I can get it so it doesn't have to be shipped and can be brought to it's new tank quickly. How about curing in a case like that? Should I cure each batch of live rock or can I add a little over time straight to the DT if it's not stocked with fish or coral yet? My reasoning is that if it's cured at the lfs and I can bring it home without any major die off there shouldn't be much dead stuff that could cause any spikes?
Or should I add it to a second container and just monitor the values for a few days before adding it to the DT?