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Curing Live Rock in Tank- With or Without sand?

April 26, 2017curing live rock Sand

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Curing Live Rock in Tank- With or Without sand?

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Great website. I’ve Googled, scanned and Googled some more; and still cannot find a definitive answer to the following situation: I am starting up a 75 gal reef tank with 80# uncured LR and plan on a 4-6″ aragonite, sugar fine DSB. My LFS says I should cure the rock with the sand in place; the idea (apparently) is that the cycling rock will “seed” the sand with bacteria and critters- thus expediting the natural filtration building-up process. On the other hand, many Reefers are telling me Not to do this; the nutrient load will be too much, there’ll be too much to siphon off, hidden cracks and crevices will rot causing numerous headaches and rampant destruction.