Cycled with 29 lb live rock in a 30 gallon, with live sand and nutri seawater live, hob filter. I let that run for about a week and a half , all params were good and then added clean up crew. Then added 2 Clowns, then a week later added small patch of zoas, palys, leather coral, star polyp, and Kenya tree. Two weeks later added cleaner shrimp and chalk basslet. I did just add two small pieces of dried out live rock i had left over to the hob filter because I needed something to hold down the Purigen in the hob filter but they were tiny. No acropora in the tank.