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Originally Posted by Lsufan
The best way to have a short cycle or in some instances no cycle at all, is bybusing mature live rock. My last setup I used 50 lbs of cured rock & 100 lbs of tbs rock. I didn’t have a cycle at all.
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Water, rock, and sand from an established tank can be a great way to get a soft or nonexistent cycle, and even better is using an established filter on the tank as well. This was a trick we used to use setting up displays back when ran a large fishroom and did maintenance/setup as a side business. You still need to go easy on stocking, but often times we wouldn't encounter any dieoff or parameter swings, and had very few issues that weren't related to product/equipment failures, and that was usually on new equipment.