I just set up a new Reefer and at almost the same time, a friend also set up a smaller Red Sea. He is only a week into his cycle with no readings of ammonia, nitrites or nitrates but last night, noticed an explosion of pods in his tank. I went and saw it myself and they are everywhere on the glass. This would not be possible if his tank wasn't cycled correct?? At start up he used Araq Alive and rock from a different tank that was "live", but to me it was very clean looking, and it sat in a cooler without water for at least a week in his garage before he set back up. I can't believe it still had any good bacteria stored in it, but maybe it did and he had a quick or almost no cycle. I brought my test kit over to double check and everything tested zero. So back to my question, could you have pods everywhere if your tank hadn't cycled yet? I would assume not...