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Depending on where you live you can get live rock and be up and running fairly fast. I got mine from a company that sells aquacultured live rock. It was in shipping with fedex for almost two days so there was some die off. You can have some air shipped and pick it up at the airport but that's fairly expensive. I didn't have a lot of life such as corals or any hitchhikers other than a few bristle worms. I did have a good amount of coraline algae though, and my tank cycled very fast. I was hoping for more hitchhikers myself. Dry pukani would be a lot cheaper, and would go a lot further in aquascaping your tank. Since I was just starting a very small nano I didn't want to wait for the curing and time it would take to grow the coraline. My next will be mostly dry seeded with some live. My tank has been running for two months and four days. Only 7.5 gal. so it wasn't too expensive to go the live rock route.