Personally, I would just do a water change every few days until the rocks stop leeching ammonia. Theres absolutely no reason not to put them back in your tank once that happens.
Its possible for the nitrite stage to be skipped. Some cycles never see nitrites.
His tank bacteria is already supporting the stock in the tank. What benefit would there be to cycling to rock?
His rocks are in the bucket after being bleached. They are currently curing. His tank ammonia and nitrite reading are 0ppm.
So 30ish days ago the rocks were taken out. At this point I voiced my concern about the lack of beneficial bacteria. Between now and then the ammonia and nitrite have remained 0. The only measurement of bacteria we have are the levels of ammonia and nitrite which unless I've misunderstood something, have remained at 0ppm throughout the 30ish days the rock has been removed.
He put rocks into an old tank to cure and didn't add shrimp because the rocks were leeching ammonia. Seems pretty clear to me, he's curing the rocks before putting them in his dt.
So how exactly would adding the live rock now and slowly increasing feedings cause a deterioration of the stock versus starving them for another 3 weeks or so before putting the rock in? Are you arguing just for the sake of arguing at this point?
Why do already present bacteria need to be "regenerated"? And you completely avoided my question about the deterioration of live stock in the tank as well as the things you insinuated I don't understand about cycling.
Again, the rocks don't need bacteria when the tank has enough to support the live stock. Also again, how is starving the fish for another 3 to 4 weeks while the rocks are cycling going to be better than adding the rocks and slowly increasing feedings?
