When you start a new tank with uncured live rock, do you start your skimmer immediately or do you wait a week or so?
When to Skim
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Starting it from the beginning doesn't hurt anything, if it's not ready to pull out skim mate it will only add oxygen.
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Yea I say run it so you also get a feel foe dialing it in
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I always start the skimmer immediately. I had uncured live rock also and it works fine. It won't hurt your cycle or anything. A lot of lfs run a skimmer in their live rock bins. There will be some die off, thus starting the cycle. The skimmer can't pull out the decomposing matter actually in the rock and that is plenty of food for the bacteria.
I do water changes during the curing/cycling also (some people dont). I still get good spikes during cycling and dont have to deal with ridiculously high nitrates when done. I believe that the water changes also help beneficial hitchhikers survive (another controversy- live rock vs dead rock, cool stuff vs nuisance). I got a free leather, button polyp, calcarous macroalgae, porites, limpets, chitons and even a lime green montipora.
I do water changes during the curing/cycling also (some people dont). I still get good spikes during cycling and dont have to deal with ridiculously high nitrates when done. I believe that the water changes also help beneficial hitchhikers survive (another controversy- live rock vs dead rock, cool stuff vs nuisance). I got a free leather, button polyp, calcarous macroalgae, porites, limpets, chitons and even a lime green montipora.
