Uncured LR - is it possible not to have a cycle?

[RyanH]

I was at Jeff's with my girlfriend last weekend(this may be hard to believe, but she actually begs me to go on saturdays so she can dig through the live rock holding tanks... gotta love her). Anyway, when we were there, we saw he had some Fiji rock still in the box. I'm a bit of a LR addict so i picked up a 50 pound box. When we got home and opened the box, the smell wasn't bad at all, we cleaned the rocks of sponges, etc, and put it in a 20g with a skimmer, heater and a couple of powerheads. It is a week later and there isn't any "smell" usually associated with curing LR, the skimmer isn't skimming like crazy, and I have no detectable ammonia.

My question is whether or not this rock is going to go through a cycle? I have started adding a little food just to see if the ammonia starts to perk up, but as of yet it hasn't. Anyone have any experience with this?

Thanks.

Ryan

 

[tazdevil]

You have 1 of the 2 possibly best situations to add live rock. 1-directly from ocean, bagged underwater, never out of water, will=minimal if any curing.
2- (your scenario) Already cured, never removed from water, added to tank, and, if you didnt acclimate it, will cure a little, otherwise, it won't cure at all as there is no die-off unless removed from water.

 

[Nameless]

if you wanted it to cycle, you shouldn't have removed the sponges, etc. When they died, bam, instant ammonia, and cycle.