if I use live rock will I still have to cycle my tank

[fishywishy]

They say you’re supposed to wait 6 months or something like that to get corals, so that way you rock and filter get established. So I’m wondering if I just buy a whole bunch of live rock that’s already been cycled will I still have to wait?

 

[brandon429]

We're on page six so far, and not one reading for ammonia was posted from a digital test kit owner, therefore outcomes range all over the place and will continue. What won't ever range: people posting pics of clear water, happy corals, happy fish and inverts, sensitive cleaner shrimp doing just fine getting fed multiple times per day and not crashing: that means cycled. It doesn't mean spiked, stalled, or half cycled.


@GatorGreg another reason for the misalignment is that professional bottle bac makers stated untruths from the macna speakers podium when they said nitrite can stall a reef tank cycle (it has never done so in reefing not one time per digital ammonia test kits)

Some of this disagreement madness is very profitable, to a select few sellers. Only the buyers are in disarray, all entrants bringing skip cycle reef tanks to a convention are never in doubt about skip cycling practice.